We have to understand how soil ecosystem functions. I’m in no way saying that all of you needed to be doing everything I needed to do. It’s going to be different on each operation. But, assure me, everywhere in the world I go…
You have to decide that, what’s key. You’ve got to give enough recovery time for those roots to build back strength. It amazes me the amount of diversity that comes…
This little section line there is between the two properties. This is ours over here. It really shows, really depicts. I often wonder what these cattle think of on this side…
Well, my whole story is how I really went down this path is I got four years in a row where I lost my crop to hail and drought. My wife and I both took off farm jobs. It was really difficult.
The other thing we can use covers for is weed suppression. This was a field of a cover crop of sorghum sudangrass the previous year. This field did not have one. If we have sorghum sudan like that we are going to be able to produce…
Is mushroom growing something you could do on your farm to add another stream of income? It is an all year round activity and reliable!
Now I’m going to show a little video here if I can get this to work, of how fast we can infiltrate an inch of water on our operation. I told you we started, we could infiltrate a half of an inch per hour.
Plants germinating and one of the things that it’s difficult for me to show you is, realize this is a journey. The young people who are starting down this journey today, or anyone starting down this path today of regenerative
What do I do with that cover crop then? Once it’s up and growing. I’ll convert it to dollars in a number of ways. We raise grass finish beef. It’s not difficult at all to get three plus pounds of gain per head per day
This is the sign down on our ranch’s drive, coming up into our yard. I want everyone who drives by to know that we’re focused on regenerative agriculture.
The greatest geological force on earth is life itself. We have to grow things. We have to restore that liquid carbon pathway.
We have to insist that our school teachers, those people that we allow to talk with our children are well trained. One of the lowest paid occupations in Australia is kindergarten teacher.
There’s an incredible amount of information, agricultural information, to be gained from Australian aboriginal people if we care to look. It’s in all the explorers’ journals.
This old Sheila, not that old Sheila. That old woman, that old black woman, who had the genius to take a handful of seed and think about it, wake up in the morning and say, “I’m gonna grind that, see what happens.”
Now, this is another photograph that I wish all Australia could learn something about, to know something about, because, here’s old gran, old white gran, all togged up in the Sunday best, and she’s standing beside all
This is the Brewarrina fish traps. This photograph of this lad here is very important because that long fish in his hand no longer exists because soon after the photograph was taken, they dammed that river
Most amazing photo in Australia today, my brother, Jonathan Jones, who’s supposed to be an artist, he’s a very good artist, but he turned himself into an archaeologist after reading Dark Emu so that’s my grand final.
Thomas Mitchell was one of the most intelligent men in the country at that time who wasn’t black. It was all yam daisy, it was all orchids, and it was all bulbine lily, and it all grew through moss
The grain, that grain, was growing on the sand dunes of Lake Mungo in pure sand with only the available moisture that the continent can provide. We made that into flour. This is the precious sand of Lake Mungo here.
“You know nothing. You know nothing about your country or about your family, and you start with your country before you learn about your family.” This is where explorers, early settlers saw Aboriginal people harvesting grain,
As Soil Lovers we respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past present and emerging.
When caring for your land take a moment in stillness to respect the wisdom your land is sharing with you.
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