Natural Sequence Farming

phytochemical I really do hope you find the right land and that it goes well for you. My wife and I are basically wanting to do much the same. I started the thread here on small farming in order to see if we can help each other by sharing experiences. adrian - i asked because from the soil maps i've...

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. Yeah aquaponics is great, there is a bit of exaggeration about it's effectiveness f...

We run around 30 Angus cows and a bull, turning off around 15 steers and keeping the best 2 or 3 heifers as replacements. We spend nothing on weed control (other than the mulcher and the tractor to run it), have never bought super (chook manure and lime) and in a bad year have to call the vet out o...

what happened to the photos?

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. There maybe some merit in a pipeline however I suspect it...

i'm currently looking at buying some landholding and converting it into a carpet-bombed green permacultural paradise (!) using the principles of permaculture and nsf. i don't expect to make much (or any) money from it - i'll be giving what i don't use away or recycling it back into the soil - but i...

I have found aquaponics, the process of farming fish and growing vegetables together to be a great system. In fact it is partly how I came to find out about NSF. I saw part of the Australian story about Peter but did not know who he was. More recently I discovered his name in a discussion on one of ...

They never kept all their eggs in one basket! I suspect it is like bio-diversity, more than one income stream leading to less risk of complete failure. My grandparents never took a holiday and my brother and his wife generally can't get away together for more than a few days when a good neighbour i...

Hi jenni, thanks for the input. Your experience reflects why I am hoping that process and experiences can be discussed. Thanks to duane I have been starting to look at holistic management, it certainly seems interesting. I particularly like their approach regarding the way they use questions to anal...

Wondering what the consensus is on the use of bio char in the context of NSF.

I'm not familiar with bio char, what would you recommend as a good reference to it?

Cheers
David

David, I'm a part time farmer on about 100 acres running a small breeding herd of cattle. I would hate to be trying to live off the income from the herd, but it is certainly our aim to operate at a profit ie: input costs < net income and we are well on the way after 6 years of ownership. Hi BM, tha...

Also if you could look into the future and see what the next big 'wonder animal' was going to be,think Ostrich, Alpaca, Emu, Crocodile etc, then all you would need is a few acres for some breeding stock and there you are! Be nice wouldn't it, for my part seems that by the time I hear about it it's ...

Let me say straight out...I am NOT a farmer. So I cannot give advice on what land size is profitable and what is not. There are too many factors governing that determinant. I understand what you are saying... Advice is probably too strong, more like I am interested in others ideas, preferably based...

I was raised on a 100 acre irrigated dairy farm in the 60's and 70's. At the time it was barely possible to make an income for a small family and it seems to me that it is far worse today. My question revolves around the viability of using NSF to improve a 100-200 acre property and to have it capabl...

How applicable is NSF to suburban gardens? I can see the effects of surface layout and plants but what about the subsurface. I am still trying to get my head around the water table and also about the water flowing on high ground.