Soil testing is informing planned paddock demonstrations in the regenerative agriculture project. FIFTEEN months in, the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s (CMA) Regenerative Agriculture project is enjoying strong interest with over 100 landholders participating in four groups across the North Central CMA region. The project offers grants to community groups in priority areas to increase the …. more
AN Organic Farmers Bushfire Appeal, coordinated by ORICoop (Organic & Regenerative Investment Co-operative) is currently pulling together a task force of organic fodder producers, organic fodder suppliers, transport companies and organic dairies – to enable a load of organic fodder to be taken from Victoria to certified organic producers affected by the ongoing bushfire and …. more
ADAM Jones has been slowly developing his small horticulture farm at Theebine, Queensland, over the five years since he purchased the property. Always a passionate gardener, he previously worked with alternative energy, especially in high-rise and resorts. Adam says that seasonal growing is important. In summer, sweet potato and eggplant are major crops, as well …. more
AT the turn of the nineteenth century, French mathematician and astronomer, Pierre-Simon La Place (1749–1827) proposed that if we only knew the starting point and the mathematical formulae we could predict all things from our present circumstance into a distant future. Combined with Emmanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) belief that we can only know things via the …. more
IN 1920 Percy George Weston, academically inclined son of a pioneering farming family, had no intention of partnering with nature by staying on the land. He was all set to enter medical school in Melbourne. That year cattle duffers put an end to the young man’s dreams by snatching 300 of the family’s steers from …. more
Liebig’s mea culpa By Hugh Lovel VITICULTURE and dairy are two of the best areas of agriculture for revealing the virtues of biodynamics – viticulture because quality is what wine excellence is all about, and dairy because every tank of milk is tested for quality. Biodynamics is about quality and self-sufficiency; the two go together. …. more