Natural Sequence Farming

Duane, that article is spot on about eucalypts, I have seen it with my own eyes Here is an article I wrote and intend to publish. All feedback is welcome. Southern Rainforest Corridors Written by Brett Cowan Australia’s worst ever natural disaster: Black Saturday super fire of 2009, that destroyed l...

This is one of my favourite stories

http://www.viddler.com/explore/Ms_Valerie/videos/240/

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That is very interesting Ian, I will find out where I can get some and trial an area. It makes a lot of sense and I have often wondered about the perched lakes of Fraser Island and what forms the seal in otherwise sand. Thanks a lot for your input, I really appreciate it. Thanks Duane I loved the vi...

Has anyone used seedballs to revegetate land


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWyduWsoy8o

Hi Shirley, There is a fair bit of cover at the moment, thanks for asking. Currently making seed balls, like chocolate truffles, instead, you blend compost and clay and place within a tree seed. I am using blackwood seeds. Then allow these small balls about 3cm round to dry. I can then walk around p...

Thats the entrepreneur spirit Ian, Off the top of my head a lot of the large Corporations have team building events, where they might as a group plant trees. There is also Green Corps where you can get a group of youngsters to build a project on your land over 6 months. A friend works at Conservatio...

I love your optimism Duane, it would seriously need to rain for two weeks to get any sort of head wall cut. The Operator who cut them suggested placing straw bales in each cut if I want to stop flow. I am thinking about placing 100mm of wood chips in each one, to slow water flow down and build up ca...

You are on the ball Duane, yes water moves from left to right. Foxdale, I used photobucket.com to generate code for forum. It is really easy to do, just upload photos from your computer to photobucket and under 'Share' you will find the code for bulletin boards and forums. Just copy and paste that i...

Thanks Angela,

Bill is a living legend and there is plenty of thought provoking information contained in these movies.

I thought some of that footage looks familiar and when they said central Victoria it made me feel right at home

So many opportunities

Thanks Novaris, Adrian and Ian for your encouragement and interest. Here are a few photos that best show what is happening at the moment http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii85/brettmtl/IMG_3078.jpg Ross placing old sleeper in swale and proof that they work. I have seen water in them on three separa...

There are some really good points made here, a cross pollination of ideas. I might as well throw in my two bob. 1) laser levelled and pegged out contour 2) Grader went maximum of 400mm deep. 3)Then in middle of swales made cuts through every 50 - 100 metres to allow water to flow through the middle ...

A quick update for those interested. 1)3.5km of swales have been graded along contours, at a depth of 400mm, there are 6 in total. Have already seen these twice filled with rain 2) Drainage channel that drained swamp has been blocked and so all runoff from surrounding landscape will gather in swamp ...

Hi Sheila, Welcome Hallelujah, finally someone is talking some sense. I thought it was common sense that our forest management is to blame for these fires. Cutting rainforest and wet schlerophyll forest and only reseeding with eucalypts is asking for trouble. I like some of your ideas, but getting t...

Hi everyone, Thanks for your support and ideas. Quick update: After talking to some locals, will run strand of electric along top of old fence, as I saw with my own eyes a cow jump the fence. This is the most effective method I am told. Then will dig around 3km of 1m deep contour swale. Have started...

Thanks for the update Duane :D I have noticed the difference between standing under a tree in a paddock and then walking 15 meters to be in the full sun. Definitely a 8 - 15 degree difference on a 30 plus day. It makes a lot of sense that tree cover will help cool the planet, I suppose it is given m...