Food from farm to plate and back again for David Sivyer

Simon McCarthy
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:35am, first published June 28 2020 - 3:00pm
SUSTAINABILITY: David Sivyer, pictured here with students of Thereses Primary School New Lambton, is transforming the farm-to-plate sustainable agriculture.
SUSTAINABILITY: David Sivyer, pictured here with students of Thereses Primary School New Lambton, is transforming the farm-to-plate sustainable agriculture.

The Sivyer family farm is a patch of land on the Allyn River, which flows to the Paterson, roughly east of Muswellbrook. Around 2013, David Sivyer had just turned 30 and decided to trade his work in hospitality to move back home and help run the farm.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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