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Following our last blog post about Lady Eve Balfour, we received this story from Gwyn Jones. “As a young man, I went to England and
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture The Living Soil by Lady Eve Balfour The following is the text of the paper exactly as given by Lady Eve
Pat Coleby was born in England in 1920. Early on in her life Pat became interested in alternative health solutions after suffering chronic asthma as
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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This is a brilliant comment on the importance of trees in the landscape. What seems to be common sense is that the whole construct of a large tree in the landscape is many fold, the canopy transpires water vapour into the atmosphere, the canopy also protects the impact of raindrops from the soil below, the water is then directed slowly, to drip of the tips of the leaves, and to travel down the branches and trunk into the surrounding soil without washing it away, creating rill and gully erosion, etc. The tree itself changes its local microclimate making it much less extreme by providing shade, windbreak, adding water vapour to the air immediately surrounding the tree, and then protecting the soil with its leaves and twigs, providing a haven for smaller organisms which break down the leaves, in turn providing nutrients back into the system and food source for surrounding birds and reptiles (insect lavae and adult beetles, etc) and finally the branches and trunk provide nesting and refuge for birds and other animals that are otherwise expposed and vulnerable. All of this and they occupy the vacant air space so beautifully, how can we not appreciate their wonder and their role in our good life?
Some practical ideas would be useful. For example, would it work to fence off areas from cattle by just connecting a group of trees with barbed wire? Thus saving the costs of fence posts and the need to transport them?
Hi Marilyn. Cattle are pretty rough on fences but you could give it a go.