Early Food Cultivation in Australia May Be Your Future
Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu, which took out Book of the Year in 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, is a thesis that challenges the generally acc…
Topic: Farming
Livestock Are A Tool That The Land Manager Uses To Either Increase Or Decrease The Ecological Health Of Their Landscape
Why is there so much controversy when it comes to grazing systems? What’s the fuss about? Emotions seem to run high when graziers experience good or…
Understand Natural Cycles And Work With Animals To Cut your Work and Speed Up The Process Of Regeneration
Animals Are Essential for Land Regeneration. Ultimately, the symbiotic relationship formed by the many animals on the farm does more than protect each…
Grow Your Own Garlic – Why?
To ensure quality why not grow your own garlic? People on the coalface, from growers through to greengrocers, suggest that the market is "flooded" wit…
Silica – the Most Abundant Element in Sand and Soil
After oxygen, silica is the most abundant element in sand and soil, and is found mostly as silicon dioxide.
Extreme Weather Reports Taking Huge Too On Global Food Production
An increase in the prevalence of extreme weather events due to global warming will seriously effect global food production worldwide, climate and agri…
For Your Backyard Hens: Growing Your Own Chicken Food
Do you know that if you are using cover crops in your garden, you can actually save work and money – just by choosing seed that is chicken friendly?
One Whiff Of These 10 Scents Can Relieve Stress Almost Instantly
Ever wonder why some scents make you feel relaxed or energized? It’s no coincidence and we have our olfactory system to thank for its intimate relat…
The Story Behind an Early Adopter of Cover Cropping; Gabe Brown – Part 5
Gabe Brown is very aware of the connection between feeding the world and maintaining and building a healthy soil food web. Gabe says even if you're no…
The Story Behind an Early Adopter of Cover Cropping; Gabe Brown – Part 4
Gabe Brown focused first on the soil to build and regain his precious topsoil. Here are his Five Tenets of Soil Regeneration. Using the following five…
The Story Behind an Early Adopter of Cover Cropping; Gabe Brown – Part 3
And another thing about worms is Vermicast and that once Gabe had the density of earthworms that he described, he is now literally producing tons, man…
The Story Behind an Early Adopter of Cover Cropping; Gabe Brown – Part 2
So then 1998 came along, and Gabe lost 80 percent of his crop to hail, making it four devastating years of crop failure in a row. But Gabe tells peopl…
The Story Behind an Early Adopter of Cover Cropping; Gabe Brown – Part 1
Taking his farm from failure due extreme climate adversity to a world leading example of soil health and profitability. After 3 crop failures in a row…
Brush packs – an easy way for getting diversity back on the farm
Monoculture can be a farmer’s enemy as monoculture can set your farm backwards. Setting up test sites like 10 m x 10 m or 30 m x 30 m in big paddock…
Diversity is Becoming the New Power Word in Progressive Farming
Farmers who are using diversity in many different ways and for different reasons are winning and are becoming more profitable. Let’s look at one exa…
Livestock are a tool that the land manager uses to either increase or decrease the ecological health of their landscape
Why is there so much controversy when it comes to grazing systems? What’s the fuss about? Emotions seem to run high when graziers experience good or…
Livestock are a tool that the land manager uses to either increase or decrease the ecological health of their landscape
Why is there so much controversy when it comes to grazing systems? What’s the fuss about? Emotions seem to run high when graziers experience good or…
Is It Safe To Keep Using Glyphosate?
Since the introduction of GE seeds in 1996, the amount of glyphosate used on crops in the United States has increased from 12 million litres to 113 mi…
Are You Still Taking Statins? Did You Know Statins have Side Effects?
Many of our friends watched the TV report on cholesterol on ‘Catalyst’ lately and have now stopped taking medication to lower their cholesterol. W…
Plant ‘Telepathy’ Breakthrough – Part 3
We can't hear it, but scientists are finding that in the apparently silent world of plants, a whole lot of communication is going on. The roots of mos…
