Natural Sequence Farming

Hey Avinashi I live in the Nimbin area and have the perfect way to deal with lantana - pigs. they love lantana they will eat it down to the ground and root up the roots. the way to do it is cut a small area perimeter with a brushcutter and put in an temp electric fence. put pigs in with water and aw...

Hi John

Slashing will spread the parramatta grass seed around. Depending on how much you have try and cut the heads off and bag them. Then spray the plants. Once they are dead you can slash the weeds as normal. If your paddock is full of them, then just slash.

Hi Parramatta grass does do all the things above, but it will also grow in highly fertile soils and compete with kikuyu and other pastures (I have it growing on my place in Northern Rivers NSW). I would get rid of it if you can and let other weeds that are preferrably not grasses do the work. My fav...

The biggest issue that I see for transforming the forests into a mostly wet schlerophyll ecosystem and then transitioning to rainforest be it cool temperate to tropical is water. In particular holding water on site in the soil. I think it is possible by the creation of massive contour channels acros...

Hi Stephen The first place I would start is to work out a way to keep as much water on your property as possible. The best way is to build swales or contour channels across your paddocks to retain water to soak into the soil slowly. The more swales the more capture of water. I have done it at my pla...

What is the current condition of your land?

weeds, bare earth, errosion, creeks, diversity of plants, flats, hills, etc..

Nik

In the long run it is most definitely the soil biota that will make the difference in soil fertilty and plant growth. The thing with Terra Preta is that it did take a long time to make it. I am very keen to see what difference will be made to the soil with the addition of biochar, composts, worm cas...

When you pyrolyse organic material you produce three things. Biochar (charcoal with minerals in it), hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide gas. The two gases together are called producer gas , syngas, or biogas. They are a great form of energy which can be used to further heat the pyrolysis reaction or c...

Hi I was going to get around to writing a post on agrichar/biochar. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what it is - quick overview. Agrichar (also called biochar) is the remains of organic matter after it has been pyrolised. Pyrolisation is the burning without oxygen. The result of the process...

Hi Duane I think there is a misunderstanding of what swales are. The literature by Mollison and others states that swales are intended to store water in the underlying soil by capturing and holding it for a period of time that allows it to soak into the soil. Swales are built on contour across the l...

Hi Duane

In which way are nsf contour lines different to permaculture swales?

Nik

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