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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3722272" data-attributes="member: 92780">Whoa - no small task !  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I will try and give a quick reponse for now, and give a more detailed response later when time allows. Really the best bet is to read his two books (several times of necessity!) and see working demonstration sites. I have met him, and he is an intuitive genius. I have seen the two feet of topsoil generated on his property while surrounding property's are more thin precarious topsoils tending to gravel and dust.The reason that a simple  "prescriptive formula"  is elusive is because of the complex and individual analysis required for each case. In nearly all instances you are starting from heavily heavily damaged landscapes, and so some intermediary repair processes are required.It is even recorded in religious tomes throughout the world that this mob or that mob "salted" the landscape and laid waste to it so that rivals were left with a barren prize. Nothing more than the salinity and desertification as a result of grazing/ agriculture as it has been practised since its invention.In Australia this situation is exacerbated since the landscape evolved without hard-hoofed animals - consequently, invaders were able to destroy the natural functioning in a matter of decades, particularly by destroying the integral wetlands in a chain of ponds.As a quick summary - water should remain within the soil and vegetation, water should run on higher points of the landscape (this is a mind bender to get your head around until the penny drops). Weeds are to be viewed (and used) as regenerative colonisers, and soil should be formed - not lost.Contrast this to the present degraded landscape - chemically poisoned, cleared, incised, eroded watercourses act as drains - drying the land, carting soil and fertility out to sea in an increasing vicious cycle.Research is thin on the ground but this is  THE  major cause of global warming, compounded by clapped out and economically unviable former arable land being concreted over for cities and ever expanding suburbs.Chosun   :gh:</blockquote>

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