A brief history on Jason, Greenhands and Sustainability Property...
Inspired by the pioneer Bill Mollison during his Permaculture Design Course in 1989, 16 year old Jason rewound the clock on 6 generations of farming in his family and became a crusader of ethical & traditional farming systems from around the world whilst travelling, teaching and most of all learning from 7 years studying nutritional farming food systems, commodities trading and ecosystem revival throughout the 1990's. From his late 80's TAJ Organics (Total Agricultural reJuvination) beginnings in backyard and broadacre principles toward soil as a science to 1995 Kindesign, a partnership in kind with a creative landscape builder in his travels and teachings to create gardens that become topics. In 1998 Greenhands became the evolution of then a decade of studying food and the principles that define its success, offering a far wider respect from the land management and developments toward Organic certifications. Having hosted Australia's first CSA's across key East Coast locations to develop food supply awareness and the networks of growers, producers across each region as a community connection and evolution to food sourcing and supply chains in local areas. A head of its time here in Australia, the process continued steadily until an awareness toward food became a point of concern. Enter Grounded Permaculture, a celebration to the processes of becoming involved with a subject that has almost become a trend. In summary, it seems Jason has been at the forefront of ethical food and the healthy lifestleys that go with it and it all started with his grandparents on the farm.
The rest is history in the making.
Award winning portrait of Jason as Multi-Award winning President of Noosa Community Radio circa 2006-11
As a community leader, radio personality, efficiency expert, festival speaker and documentarian amongst his 21 year stint on the Sunshine Coast Qld, Jason has brought a light onto the culture of food in our society since his return to Australia in 1998. From developing the first Community Support Agriculture (CSA) networks along the east coast from 1998-2005, to initiating the transition of 128,000 hectares of wheat to Organic for a well know major brand and encouraging regional cotton farmers to look at soil science to combat plant resilience and further his successes in rewinding time and seeing a common sense in growing, ultimately winning a series of competitions for Cotton, Mung Bean, Chick Pea before acting as specialist agronomist for a selection of growers 1998-2007.
Witness some of our ideas over the last 30 years...
With a background in nutrition and decades of soil/gut microbiome research, Jason has aligned his knowledge on health and food production to enable his clients the nutritional changes in balancing their bodies for lifestyle choices. Aligned with his partner, a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Herbalist & Nutritional expert, Amy Rhodes, the Sustainability Property Group's intentions are to evolve your being and health into the outcomes you desire for the longevity. Custom Food as Medicine programs are available with just a quick questionnaire to see how we can bring your life and body back into balance.
As the evolution of ethical food has become trend and our global health and immunity has been socially challenged in increasing ways, Jason has brought about education and celebration in the last 5 years surrounding the knowledge he has in community circles and events alike. With a growing interest in his 30+year experience he has found that the demand for a sustainability in property has increased beyond what the market can provide. Simply put, properties with levels of sustainable assets like established vegetable gardens, off grid water and solar power options, grey water systems and environmental climate zones have increasingly shown the potential buyers that the benefits out weight the costs & desire of having to set them up.
New Home builders can also benefit from the design insight regarding aspect, land use, power/water requirements, storage and consumption as Jason provides audits on projected Power consumption, water collection capacity, recycling and even compost toilet systems for home & garden.
While we all agree that the right design up front saves thousands of dollars compared to quick fixes and repairs, Sustainability Property takes your home into the new era of self resilience and design insight to save you save you $$ while you live and earn you more $$ when you sell.
Contact Jason to find out how you can benefit today.
"Solutions to our lifestyle choices have been perfectly crafted by Jason and his Nutritional Permaculture knowledge.
Taking our health into consideration, Jason mapped the way forward for us to get the most out of our 50's after years of neglect. Feels like we are living for the first time!
Knowing how to talk on sustainability as a selling point to potential buyers has made properties sell faster in the last years as buyers want more value that they can own immediately.
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