Natural Sequence Farming

Nobody likes mining in their own backyard. No incentives for the local population, only the downsides. The system in North America is better- the landowner sells the right to mine on his land, so he gets something out of it.

While it would be sad to see Tarwyn Park lost to coal mining, and personally devestating to Peter Andrews, I had to shake my head in disbelief when I read Gerry Harvey call the idea "lunacy".
Coming from a man who tramped all over many of Australias small retailers the hypocrisy is self evident.

Great to see a wet year at last Greg. Eucalypts shed their leaves, twig and branches as conditions dry out as part of their survival mechanism, but will retain them under wet conditions. So expect a big dump to be added to your hip high vegetation when things dry out. Hope its not too close to your ...

Sceptic I think you have made a pretty fair fist of your explanation as to the dominance of eucalypts in Australia. I dont agree with you that we nee to be concerned by the move to plant more trees. Revegaetation of sites has been an important step forward in the Australian landscape, and if you loo...

The good thing about the net is that everyone's an expert. Even those who believe they are well informed. I think you may misunderstand what the net provides. When someone makes a statement which is not explained in any fashion, readers can quickly ask for more information. If the person who origin...

Shirley you make some good points in your post. Pressure to plant native species is very strong, particularly from environmental groups like the Australian Conservation Council, Total Environmental Center and the Society for Growing Australian Plants to name just a few bodies. Interestingly Solar Ad...

Its not a question of enviromental benefits outweighing economic benefits. Its a matter of adding the two together.

I dont mind helping those who have difficulty understanding the concepts, but when that help is belittled and greeted with abuse, it makes me less inclined to offer the little I do know to others. For gods sake, duanne GROW UP! You have a lot to learn and you seem to be making it difficult for yours...

I have recently read Peters book and now have some understanding of how his system works. One thing to bear in mind is that it was a lifetimes work for Peter to achieve what he has, and to put in to practice a farm wide system will probably require decades of experimentation, trial and error. Its no...

The antonym of degradation is aggradation ....pls note the spelling of the word aggradation with a GG not agraddation. Sorry if I caused you to be confused. YOU certainly ARE confused. There is no such word as agradation. From Online dictionary "aggradation The general accumulation of unconsolidate...

Ghosta, g'day and welcome to the NSF forum. Can you explain to me what happens to the higher ground that you say loses some of its soil to the lower ground level? I went outside and built a heap of dirt with a shovel. Then tipped water over it. As you stated, the higher dirt moved under the power o...

That's right.....ALL of the environmental benefits would far outweigh any economic one from harvesting the timber. John Fenton himself would acknowledge that, I'm sure. Duanne, it may pay to think a little about the statement you just made. There would be many environmentally aware landowners who w...

duane wrote:So we degrade one to aggrade another. They cancel each other out....all systems need to aggrade together to allow the system to build...better find another example as this example fails to pass go.

My guess is you dont actually know what aggrade means. Look it up!

BTW.....I would like to know of any example of where fire has aggraded a landscape system. There are examples wherever you look. Fire, particularly frequent fire, can result in soil instability on high ground. Some of the soil washes down after heavy rain aggrading the plains below. This IS pretty ...

Thanks for your reply. I think bushfire and government authorities are looking for practical and achievable things that could be done. Although I am Tasmanian, I travel throughout Victoria regularly each year. Ive not seen any firebreaks that have been constructed there were eucalypts were planted a...