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.
With the increase in these activities (as agriculture is increasingly sold down the drain), I feel it important that we as land managers, & community members, have questions to ask which are focused on restoration of landscapes, & agriculture today, & into the future.
Feel free to add to the list, & give comment from your perspective.
I’ve added a list of resources at the end, much of which have youtube videos relevant to the questions.
Questions to ask Resource Companies who want access to your land
1. What are you going to do to restore the water cycle on this landscape?
2. What are you going to do to restore the soil carbon sponge across this landscape?
3. What are you going to do to restore complex vegetation communities across this landscape?
4. What will you do to manage overland water flows, & erosion, specifically in relation to new, & existing access tracks?
5. What will you do to manage fire in tthis landscape?
6. What are you doing to compensate producers for loss of production/income due to your activities in this landscape?
7. What will you do to create, & manage complex plant communities across this landscape?
8. What will you do to support local communities now, & into the future, when your activities are no longer going on?
9. How will you support agricultural activities/enterprises in this landscape?
10. What will you do to support diverse wildlife populations in this landscape?
11. How will your activities create a better future for all in this landscape?
Great resources for learning about sequestering water and greenhouse gases.
Brad Lancaster, Tucson Arizona.
Geoff Lawton, Geening the Desert in Jordan.
Reginaldo Hasslet-Marroquin, Decolonising, & indigenising agriculture.
Peter Andrews, Natural Sequence Farming.
Walter Jehne, on water cycle, co2, & methane, & soil carbon sponge.
Shane
Afterthought: This post came about because I sent out a newsletter with most of the stuff above on it. I was fortunate enough to get a few responses from some of the readers.
One said that this information is useful, but I didn’t have anywhere it could be re-read if they deleted the newsletter.
Another kind soul told me that I didn’t have any images or stuff in the newsletter that would attract people to read it. Just a letter with 11 points that didn’t have line spaces between it wasn’t looking after my readers with enough respect. Gotta say I agree with him. So a better effort from now on.
So I have invested some time to rewrite the newsletter as a post on the website, adding images, more spaces between lines, adding a bit of colour and some links to the resources so that you can just click on them and go straight to the youtube video.
This marketing stuff is a new learning curve so a little bit each day will look like a lot in 12 months time.
Thanks to all for their feedback.
Cheers Shane
This is an excellent account of what you have been doing at Kumbartcho, Shane – Keep Up The Great Work…..Not to mention the fact that you do much of it on your own.
Gerry
Thanks for your feedback.
The reality is that the farm does most the work, & like my dogs, is patient with me as I learn.
Also much of the physical work is done by others…workshop participants, school groups, wwoofers, & local volunteers…They also are patient with my ineptitude as I learn Natures ways in the landscape.