La Vergne Lehmann
Director
La Vergne has maintained a strong interest in using native foods for more than 20 years. Working in the tourism and post-secondary education sector in the Wimmera in western Victoria has provided the impetus for La Vergne and her husband Paul to start growing dryland native food plants as part of their horticulture plantings on their farm just out of Dimboola.
La Vergne teaches in conservation and land management at Longerenong Agricultural College and takes every opportunity to encourage the growing of economic native food plants as part of traditional agricultural plantings in the region.
When she is not busy growing or cooking with native foods La Vergne is working on her PhD with the University of Ballarat researching the relationship between tourism and water in dryland areas and sustainable water management.
