Growing Curious: Our 2024 Harvest

A season of listening, learning, and cultivating change

Author

Benjamin Knight
December 16, 2024

Us at the SMART Recovery 20th Anniversary in front of the SMART Stories display

As we reflect on our first seasons at A Curious Tractor, our hearts are full of gratitude. Each connection made, every story shared, and all the wisdom gathered has enriched the soil of our farm. You've taught us to move at the speed of ceremony, to listen deeply, and to grow with purpose.

Take a journey through our 2024 timeline to see how these seeds of impact have flourished. Thank you for being part of our story.

An image from the last day on Palm Island, also known as Great Palm Island, or by the Aboriginal name Bwgcolman, meaning ‘many tribes, one people’, is a tropical island with a resident community of about 5,000 people. The Island is situated 65 kilometres north-west of Townsville, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia, 800 kilometres north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It is the main island of the Greater Palm group, and consists of small bays, sandy beaches and steep forested mountains rising to a peak of 548 metres.The Palm Island Group is home to the Traditional Owners, the Manbarra people – (Mun-burra) and the Indigenous Bwgcolman people and their descendants that were sent to the Palm Island mission from a number of communities around Queensland, Northern Territory and the Torres Strait. Palm Island was gazetted as an Aboriginal reserve in 1914 but it wasn’t until 1918 Aboriginal people were sent to the Island. Since 1918, representatives from over 70 tribes were displaced and sent to Palm Island.