Sydney's vegetable basin losing ground to urban sprawl as land bankers speculate

By Jacob Saulwick
Updated February 7 2016 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
Fruit grower Ed Biel in his orchard on his farm Wanaka at Oakdale. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Fruit grower Ed Biel in his orchard on his farm Wanaka at Oakdale. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Tony Biffin on the family-run Biffin Dairy in Cawdor near Camden. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Tony Biffin on the family-run Biffin Dairy in Cawdor near Camden. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Dairy Farmer Tony Biffin in the yards during milking.  Photo: Kate Geraghty
Dairy Farmer Tony Biffin in the yards during milking. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Urban sprawl and rising land prices will cause the share of Sydney's vegetables grown within the city's food basin to crash to just 1 per cent in the next 15 years.

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