About Dom & Lauren

Ethical Farmers began with a shared belief: the quality of our health begins with the quality of our food.

Dom's
journey started after a serious neck injury ended his rugby career.
While rehabilitating with specialist health coach Aaron McKenzie, he
experienced firsthand the role that nutrient-dense food plays in healing
and performance. But finding meat he could genuinely trust proved
almost impossible. Disillusioned by the lack of transparency in the
industry, he opened his own butcher shops in Sydney, sourcing the very
best food he could find. Before long, sourcing wasn't enough — he wanted
to produce it himself. That journey led from raising his own corn and
soy-free eggs to purchasing the farm in Dungog in 2019, where he's been
building a regenerative farming system focused on healthy soils, healthy
animals, and exceptional food.

Lauren's
path followed a remarkably similar thread. After years as a personal
trainer, she became fascinated by the role nutrition plays in long-term
health. In British Columbia, Canada, she founded an artisan fermented
foods company, sourcing organic and biodynamic ingredients directly from
farmers she knew and trusted before eventually growing many of the
vegetables and herbs herself at her off-grid homestead in the South
Chilcotin Mountains. In 2023, Dom and Lauren met by chance in the remote
mountains of British Columbia. After their first date — a walk across a
frozen lake in the heart of winter with snow blowing all around them —
they discovered they shared the same vision for food, farming, and the
future they wanted to build together. Today, they lead Ethical Farmers
together, producing the kind of food they always wished existed: food
raised with integrity, complete transparency, and a commitment to
leaving the land healthier for generations to come.

— Dom, Lauren & the Ethical Farmers Family