Farmer’s Best Friend – the Earth Worm
I guess you were thinking that a dog is man’s best friend. But this is a farmer’s best friend. It is an extract from a book that was written back in 1945 and is now out of copyright. It can…
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Walter Jehne | The Australian Einstein of the Soil Carbon Sponge
Soil carbon sponge (or soil sponge) is porous, well-aggregated soil in good health, better able to absorb and retain water. Australian microbiologist and climatologist, Walter Jehne, articulated the concept of the soil carbon sponge in his 2017 paper, Regenerate Earth…
Simple Soil Tests
Every farmer I know has, at one stage or another bowed to the request from an agronomist to get soil tests done on multiple parts of the farm. In a lot of cases they want numerous soil tests done over…
Chook Heaven
How it all started Having chooks all started when I decided to do a composting workshop. I have always been a fan of Geoff Lawton and really liked his idea of using chooks to make a perpetually moving composting heap.…
Tongue in Cheek
A GRAZIERS QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO DYNAMICALLY CREATING YOUR NEXT WORST DROUGHT IN HISTORY. I wrote this a while ago. And was prompted to re-write it. Following recent travels through areas of Central Queensland following rainfall events over the latter…
DRONE E9 APPLICATION
SOIL TESTING 03/04/2024 Yesterday we completed our first Drone spray application of our newly branded E 9 complete biodynamic preparation. So what is the significance of this? The significant thing is my soil sampling protocol, which I developed back in…
TAO
TAO! What does this mean for you? A quick look in WikipediA brings this up. The TAO or DAO is the natural way of the universe. So by now you’re likely thinking, “Here Shane goes down another rabbit hole, &…
Keeping the B***^@ds Honest
Resource Companies on Rural Land and Farms Following is a group of questions I’ve put together in relation to activities on rural lands relating to resource companies, solar farms, wind farms (neither of these 2 are farms!), power grid lines.…
Do Cows Cause the Methane Problem?
This may change or confirm your opinion. There is a lot of comment in the media and supposedly gospel information that methane farts and burps from cows is the prime cause of the growth of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere.…
quick, cheap, easy, long lasting shade tunnels
Here at Kumbartcho over the last 10 years I have created a number of shade tunnels for gardening. Primarily containing wicking beds. Some of these are in the local community gardens. Here I learned some of the how to, &…