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Natural Sequence Farming (1 Viewer)

In this time of COVID-19 , perhaps more folks are ready to start examining the link between soil health <-> food <-> nutrition <-> human health ...... perhaps even solve this climate thing ....

Not quite the entirety of what's possible with pasture cropping, but some very good points, techniques, and lessons nonetheless - particularly around building good living soil, and the web of life. :t:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmId...5XcRkSnXWIsUd14HGUIMSVqHVKPIskr4ptcFD8mtyUV4Q







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The Hydration Plan

An interesting wide ranging essay - with some data/maps to back up increased desertification, raised temperatures, and even bushfires etc being caused by poor land management practices.

It's a bit light on in the areas of mining impacts to surface water hydrology, river and aquifer resources, and ditto for so called 'illegal' floodplain harvesting of rain events and overland flow before even reaching our strangled and pumped dry rivers.

I'm also not pro recycled sewage water for drinking (too many unknowns).
Otherwise an interesting read.

http://adamwillson.com.au/?fbclid=IwAR3vsAVruYskg3l7xnH_haWzQzbhI8PAviT0i72ErtXRFAIQgcV1EkPtwb0







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Mulloon Creek in major decade flood

A brilliant series of visuals of how the rehydration works in the Mulloon Creek Catchment have handled and utilized major floods not seen since 1974 ! to replenish the floodplains.

https://themullooninstitute.org/blo...CWUGE7wxS2PmN6E8qxCsLo9hPZMAfQ3KS_BNX8OjO8MkM


Contrast this to the abject madness occurring in the Murray-Darling Basin where 'floodplain harvesting' is rife - stealing hydration and fertility replenishing processes from the land .....






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Personally, I don't see how single species, bare (fallow) soil cropping with artificial inputs can be allowed to continue.

At best, we need two symbiotic species (like a nitrogen fixing legume, and a cereal crop, etc) growing on the same ground, with constant cover (no fallow periods throughout the year) , and/or pasture cropping.

Ultimate per ha yields may drop in some cases, but the benefits to soil retention, and soil carbon will far outweigh that.

With the status quo industrial farming system - the world is headed towards a brick wall at 100mph ! ........ Not good !



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Interesting grist for the mill - The Great Sahara Forest ......


With the vast majority of wetlands here degraded and destroyed, this is a significant cause of the impacts that people erroneously attribute to climate change. A similar situation exists in the Western US, and other parts of the world. This has contributed over 1/3 of the increase of Carbon in the atmosphere.

Prior to intrusion, the Original people cared for the earth sustainably through a totemic moiety system that ensured plenty for all. Thus mostly avoiding the desertification of the land that occurred elsewhere in the world. Cool pyrolytic burns also 'built' soil ...... something that hasn't happened now for hundreds of years, until the 2019/20 inferno absolutely scared the s**t out of the occupying people - so much so, that they've turned to the Original people for help in pilot programs.

The other source of soil building is a few small scale (but growing interest and area in) recent regenerative practices such as Natural sequence Farming, and No-Kill Pasture Cropping - preferably together. Unfortunately the integral earth mulching small native animals have been decimated by introduced ferals, and along with the theft of country and removal of custodian Original people, no longer perform these roles over the bulk of the country.

A few small predator cleared and proof fenced sanctuaries have been showing remarkable gains where these remaining species of animals have been reintroduced, and bred up, cultural practices re-established, and introduced stock excluded too. Notable increases in soil carbon and reduction in uncontrolled fire fuel loads change visibly and measureably.

In concert with this rehabilitation needs to be dedicated augmentation, and erosion repair programs - and of course an end to the theft of water for profit.

With the 'Global Warming' narrative pushed to the exclusion of all other causal analysis, another threat of similar scale to the damage already caused, looms. That of the water demands of 'Green Hydrogen'. Full life cycle projections have around 24 l of water required for every litre of hydrogen produced and used. The same mistakes can't be made again, nor repair of the damage delayed.

It's no good trying to fix the climate while creating deserts at the same time.




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Interesting resource intensive, ground disturbing rehabilitation + low tech sticks. The prime damagers giving themselves something of a pat on the back for a tiny bit fixing.
It's not really the best way to heal the land, and certainly not in isolation - but probably better than nothing ....




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