Natural Sequence Farming

The following link is a good article I recently found on the Dehesa.
http://www.ecoagriculture.org/case_study.php?id=41

I have been trialing some cork oaks on my farm but so far they are going fairly slow contending with dry seasons, kangaroos and the neighbours sheep

The Dehesa is an agricultural system that covers over 3 million hectares of land in Spain and Portugal (where it is called the Montado). It is a productive, sustainable and diverse system developed over hundreds of years comprising of an open woodland of Holm oaks and cork oaks with pasture undernea...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: I've finally moved to Wongan Hills but have been waiting nearly 2 months for wireless internet to be connected so I didnt find out about the Avon field day until too late :cry: Glad to hear it went well though and I hope to be on b...

Organic No-Till - will it work in Australia? - I'm hoping to find out.
I will post more if I ever get my internet connected
The following link from the US shows some of the methods I'm going to try.
http://www.newfarm.org/depts/notill/index.shtml

Halfway through and loving it - reading a chapter per night thoroughly and having a good think about it before moving on to the next - great stuff.
Regards - Andrew Shanks

Thanks again Ian for your informative posts (and pictures) - I was out of action for a couple of weeks with a nasty dose of the flu and it brightened the day a bit reading each update of your progress. I've also been immersed in reading Peter's book which my wife bought for my birthday. I was very d...

G'day Ian, Great to hear of stuff being done in WA - thanks for sharing your work. I have some vetiver grass if you would like some ('monto' a non -seeding variety). I live in Perth (Armadale) at the moment but I Have a block near Wongan Hills - I could drop off some vetiver for you next time I go o...