Permaculture, Keyline, Biodynamics and Seaweed
Bill Mollison, a legend and founder of the Permaculture Movement, one of an amazing group which includes people like P.A. Yeomans and Geoff Wallace of the Keyline movement, Alex Podlinsky in Biodynamics and many others here in Australia. All these people have imparted valuable, important knowledge upon us all that often overlaps, such is their common interest in natural ecosystems. I am fortunate and honoured to have met the last three but Bill never came my way. We are a...
July 24, 2017Seaweed and the chemical problem
The need to reduce the unnatural pollutants on our farms is urgent and necessary. Whatever your opinion or belief may be, surely you must agree we are now in a world where chemicals made by man, not nature, are becoming increasingly dominant and are a problem to natural ecosystems. It has been recognised by science that such things as Nitrogen, Pesticides, Herbicides and Fungicides have over the years increased to such a point that they are damaging our planets ecosystems. Of these the insectici...
January 18, 2017Seaweed, the NBFC and cow burps.
How timely that on the same week that the National Biological Farming Conference was held in Cairns, James Cook University released their breakthrough study proving that seaweed can reduce methane produced by cattle and thus global warming.Farmers including many cattle producers from all over Australia converged on Cairns to learn how they can embrace the new age of biological food and fibre production and become part of the solution to saving the planet. Biological farming is about putting Carb...
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