Natural Sequence Farming

I have never read a greater amount of poppycock in my life! Any long term global climate shift (and we are seeing precious little of that lately) are due to the Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycle. Who puts forward these global lies?- The United Nations IPCC! As well as haranging your local member for the gove...

In his books, Peter talks about NSF facilitating the transfer of fertility within a property, but what about the transfer of fertility out of a property. If the natural fertility of a property is used for cropping or grazing, and the resultant produce is then shipped to the market, which in Australi...

I stumbled across a book yesterday by Pat Coleby titled 'Natural Farming'. Full of some very interesting ideas, some of which are echoed by Peter in his books. I would be interested to know if anyone here has tried any of her ideas and how they turned out?

A point to take note of regarding hydrating the landscape; if you are down in Melbourne and go to the Dandenong Ranges National Park, their is a walk straight up the hill from the entrance around a gully. One side of the gully is cool temperate rainforest and the other is dry sclerophyl forest. Obvi...

Just a thought, are you in the right area to grow Crocus? They tell me Saffron is worth more than gold?

Cheers

Col.

G'day All Did we all see landline on Sunday. There was a story on Dr Christine Jones and her Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme. Thought that in some ways this reinforces what Peter et al have been saying about keeping some sort of green cover(think of the wheatfields of WA) and accumulatin...

This was in the Melbourne paper and also heard it from a fellow at work whose family are at Kinglake There were seven houses in the street at Reedy Creek, all but one were destroyed on Saturday night. The owner of the one surviving house had just been fined thousands of dollars by the Shire for ille...

As far as possible we must ensure it never happens again! first and foremost what of the friends and supporters of NSF, not only in Vic, but also ,of course in the other areas of Australia suffering fires at the moment. If anyone is living in these area, what difference, if any, did NSF make? I woul...

I received in the mail today a letter from Claire Holloway, assistant to HRH Charles, Prince of Wales expressing thanks for the copies of 'Back from the Brink' and 'Beyond the Brink' and how much the Prince enjoyed them. Also re the Victorian Bushfires, although I am quite safe in suburban Melbourne...

G'day
Josh Byrne on the Gardening Show on the ABC had a segment on a fellow in Perth who is doing just this. You can grow plants in the fish pond to feed the fish, then use the fishwaste to grow other edible plants.

Cheers

Col.

G'day To increase our own arable land can we not (1) build a pipeline to divert water from the (overflowing) north queensland rivers over the great divide to the murray darling system and (2) pipe water from northern australia further south. As for the second solution, it needn't be energy intensive...

G'day All Here in Melbourne recently there has been a debate in the paper about growing more native plants and less exotics. Evidently only about 20% of nursery sales are natives. Well we have just endured 3 days of 40+ degree temperatures here in Melbourne. It looks like my two Native Peppers ( Tas...

From what I saw on the TV with Malcolm Turnbull, the making of Biochar results in a fuel that can be burnt. Is this something like the old process of making 'Town Gas'?

Cheers

Col.

Dear Drpat Here in drought ravaged Melbourne we are left with brown dead patches where our lawns used to be, yet the couch and buffalo are having a great time in my flower beds. I just continually pull it out and try to mulch as best I can. I have been lately thinking of 'Divine Intervention'! Will ...

David Whilst I am not a farmer myself can I say it depends on what branch of farming you are interested in. I have met a few people who were running commercial herb farms on just an acre or two. Also if you could look into the future and see what the next big 'wonder animal' was going to be,think Os...