September Event
Dear Subscribers Saturday 6 September is our annual spring biodynamic day. We’ll dig up both cow horns & E9 Activator that we put down in the earth in Autumn. Camp Fri 5th & Sat 6th September Come camp Friday nite,…
Shane
Biodynamics and the Old Curmudgeon
It must have been about 8 months ago when this old guy pulled up in the driveway at Kumbartcho Project Farm. He had a bit of a job getting out of the car, so I offered some help. He looked…
Ultra Processed Food | Michael Pollan & Joel Salatin
Following on from our previous blog post, How can we all Improve our Health, is information about Ultra Processed Food and how it affects health. One of the best and easiest ways to improve your health is to stop eating…
How can we all Improve our Health?
THE SHIKIMATE PATHWAY It was only five or six years ago that I started to understand the Shikimate Pathway. Sounds Japanese, doesn’t it. That’s because the name did evolve from a Japanese plant in the 1800’s. Aniseed or star anise…
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…
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…