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Date:	04-May-2015	
Input sound file:	07. Weston Farm horticulture (Tas) V3	

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[music] [Opening slide, Weston Farm, An organic farm in the heart of Tasmania]	
	[Richard is in a greenhouse, tying plants to sticks. Face to camera]
I'm Richard Weston and I run Weston farm. 
[Outside, shows Richard working with olive trees]
What we're trying to do here at all times is quality. We produce a very good award winning olive oil. We grow herbaceous Peony Roses. 
[Person is walking through rows of trees with a dog]
We ship those to all States of Australia and we were sending them into South Korea and Los Angeles. 
[Visual moves to closeup of berries, pods and poultry, pigs and a deer then face to camera]
We provide fresh quality produce to eight restaurants and growing. We do have poultry. We do have some pigs. I think the advantage in a small farm is we can diversify quickly. At the moment, we would have at least twelve to fifteen things we're selling to restaurants and that's the key for us.	
	[Walks among seedlings in the greenhouse, zooms in on him working with the soil]
Nuffield provide farming scholarships  and I was fortunate enough in 2012 to acquire one. It's a wonderful organisation that encourages people to, and provides an opportunity for people to study overseas. 
[Outside again, walking among plants on his property, then goes to some large vegetable plots]
For me, it helped enormously because it gave me an opportunity to travel and see how the rest of the world is farming. The good things and the bad things.	
	We entered into a cafe business over 12 months ago. 
[Face to camera, then closeup of plants growing, face to camera]
Our advantage over other restaurants and cafes is it has its own farm so we push the freshest produce through there and people are interested in that. They want to know where their food comes from. How I'm making a difference in agriculture? 
[visual of garden beds, closeup of a row of lettuces, seedlings, closeup of fruit growing, artichokes growing]
I think I'm making a difference in several areas. I think fundamentally one of them is employing people and I think it's very important for young people to have that opportunity to be employed. We've all have had opportunities in the past and when you look back, it's nice to have somebody take a chance on you and have the belief in you that you can help build their business.	
	[Visual – artichokes, face to camera]

I think agriculturally, we're doing things a little bit differently and I think that will provide an opportunity for other people I'd like to see follow in our foot steps. 
[Visual moves to a white ute, with Weston written on the side, Brian and dog get out]
You don't need large scale agriculture, thousands of acres to make a living and a profession out of agriculture. 
[closeup of sign on car, Weston Peopnies, flowers, Olive Oil, Fresh Produce, website address and phone number, face to camera)
Having had looked around the world, I think you can see lots of examples where small scale niche quality products-- there's a demand for them. People like to eat, but people also like to eat fine things and good quality things.	
	[Walking again outside with dog, closeup of Brian working with trees, and then face to camera]

If I was to give advice to young people in agri, I would say if you feel you have a passion for agriculture/horticulture, find a pathway, go with the right training and the right people supporting you, and it's a good profession and it is a profession. It's a very important one if we're going to continue to feed people.

[Closing visual, Brian, with his dog, looking at tree, then around his property]	
	[music]	
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