The vision
Stardust Farm is an idea, and hopefully will become a community, where we try to live in concert with our surroundings, custodians of the lands, the waters, the flora and the fauna, cultivating connection and community.
Currently, we have two sites, a suburban block which is transitioning to a permaculture haven, and a bush block where we hope to build a community rooted in resilience, in particular, the resilience of women coming together in circle, in ceremony, despite the difficulties in bringing that power together to both aid women in finding (financial, social, spiritual) resilience, but also giving women a place where they can rest from being resilient, into the arms of nature, into the arms of community. And the slowness of pace is integral here – because its about finding forms of living and being that are at most human-paced (not car-driven, schedule-driven), but human-paced in the sense of tuned in to the cyclical nature of lives, including our own, and seasons.
We hope to find and preserve skills, wisdom and knowledge for future generations that will be useful in a rapidly changing world of energy decline.
If you’re interested in getting involved, or if you’d like to get Sonia to work on a project with you, contact us below.
Gratitude
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which Stardust Farm is being built, the Taungurung people of the East Kulin nation. We acknowledge their custodianship of the land over untold generations, and that we are beneficiaries not only of this custodianship but of the subsequent colonisation of Country. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. We pay the rent.
We also acknowledge our own roots and ancestry, ranging from the Lake District of England, through the fertile Punjabi plains, winding up to the Guangdong region of China, meeting in the sliver of land known as Peninsular Malaysia before coming to work, live and rest here.
Who we are
What we offer
If you’re wanting to transition your life to something more sustainable, I’d love a chance to build up my repertoire of permaculture skills with you – working through a design process on your site.
Alternatively, if you’re interested in being part of our community, get in touch. While we’re open to all, we particularly encourage those (however identified at birth) who present as women, those experiencing hardship of any kind and those for whom we owe more than gratitude as we live on the Stolen lands of their Ancestors, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We also have an 11-acre site available, partially cleared, for those who would like to hold ceremony or rites of passage. So far it has been used for birthing drums and holding menarche welcomings. In time, I hope to hold short wilderness solos there for young women, celebrating and exploring their womenhood, with an emphasis on understanding cycles and seasonality, and getting in touch (with self, with purpose) through nature.
The stuff we get up to is building things, growing things and hopefully at some stage, eating things, with some crafting and celebration and ceremony thrown in.
Sonia Randhawa
Sonia prefers to eat weeds over doing actual gardening, which is fortunate as the current patch is a haven for chickweed and dandelion. She finished a PDC in 2020, just before lockdown; and is currently studying with the School of Shamanic Womencraft, to bring more ritual and rhythm to the crew of Stardust Farm.
