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…
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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…
Let me Tell You About that Pig
The new local agronomist was travelling through the Banana Shire in outback Queensland. He does a double take as he passes a farm and sees a pig walking in the yard. And the pig has a wooden leg. This piques…
Biodynamic FAQ’s From Home Gardeners
Biodynamic Frequently Asked Questions When you have been involved with a thing for more than twenty years, you use terms and words that you are totally familiar with. These words mean a lot to me, but when I am talking…
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…