A SHARED PASSION FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING and healthy living led chef and holistic nutrition and performance coach Scott Gooding and his wife, actress and director Matilda Brown, to launch The Good Farm Shop in 2021. Their Sydney-based company produces nutritious ready-meals made from sustainably sourced ingredients.
For Matilda, it’s a lifestyle approach with deep roots – her parents, actors Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, own a beef cattle property in the Nambucca Valley on the Mid North Coast of NSW. After battling years of drought and bushfires, Rachel embarked on her own journey into regenerative agriculture – a process reflected in her engaging and inspiring 2023 documentary As parents to three children –