FUTURE Lilydale farmer Melissa Lubke hopes the success of last Sunday's Small Farm Living exhibition will encourage Northern farmers and agricultural organisations to network together more often.
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More than 300 people attended the event, which has turned into a biennial tradition in Lilydale.
The exhibition is aimed at educating small farmers on how they can improve their agricultural operations.
Mrs Lubke and her husband, Andrew, are preparing to turn their property into a small farm with cattle and chickens in the coming years and Mrs Lubke said the exhibition has placed her in good stead.
"I'm coming in quite raw to the farming experience," she said.
"I think in general, as a mum of two young ones and my husband doing most of the outside work, I felt more prepared and informed about helping him."
Mrs Lubke said she hoped the Small Farm Living exhibition would gain enough momentum in future years to warrant the event becoming an annual spectacle.
"I would like to see (the Small Farm Living exhibition) become an annual event. (Every) two years is too long, we need more things like this to network.
The Small Farm Living exhibition will return again in 2017.