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Everything You Need To Know with Dr. Mary Cole Most people are unaware of the importance of soil microbiology to plant growth. Soil microbes play
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Everything You Need To Know with Dr. Mary Cole Most people are unaware of the importance of soil microbiology to plant growth. Soil microbes play
Despite its growing popularity, many people are unaware of what biodynamic farming is and how it works. Biodynamic agriculture is a form of alternative farming
A strong and healthy immune system is now more critical than ever. The majority of our immune system is generated in our gut. It requires a
Can this be even possible? Just imagine. Without using fertisers, pesticides, weedicides – “oh my farm will be a total mess!” You’re probably right. If
Soil quality is an important factor if you are a grower, having quality soil improves growth and health of your plants. There are a number
Shane Joyce knows his soils very well and so is able to tune into it very quickly. Whilst he does keep records and uses traditional soil tests, he finds that these simply verify what he already knows.
Listen as Shane Joyce recalls his innovative management when he returned to his family farm, Dukes Plain. When Shane returned the farm had been managed conventionally and was now showing the signs of degraded and depleted soils.
Today at Farming Secrets we recorded a Q & A session with Helen & Hugo. I asked them to explain the reasons they suggest starting your transition to chemical free farming by doing the Ecological Soil Management Course.
Di and Ian Haggerty of Prospect Pastoral farm approx. 30,000ha in the wheatbelt WA using their own regenerative farming practices they call Natural Intelligence Farming.
Looking for steps to recover your soil after a bushfire? Listen in to soil expert, Nicole Masters as she speaks to farmers in California.
Demand for Frank’s Compost Makes Him Go Organic. This is a great story of a passion for farming, combined with innovation and persistence.
If we look at the definition of the word science, the definition of the word science is “adherence to natural laws and principles”. That’s what science is supposed to be.
So everyone knows that this change is coming, and the bigger operators are jumping on board rather than playing catch up. It’s really easy to argue quite compellingly…
Understand if we do go back to root causes, that it all comes down to nutrition. In human health, in animal health, in plant health, nutrition is the key to everything. It all comes back to … and what is nutrition farming?
Now when we talk about the chemistry story, one of the stories that I think it’s fair to mention is that every culture at some point has asked the question…
And then we look at the agriculture model where, if you have a good look at this and you can Google to check, every year … I call the last 100 years “the chemical experiment”…
Now that Haney Test I talked about, that’s the best test out there available in the States, and Dr. Haney’ll give the protocol to any lab anywhere in the world that wants to use it.
We have to understand how soil ecosystem functions. I’m in no way saying that all of you needed to be doing everything I needed to do. It’s going to be different on each operation. But, assure me, everywhere in the world I go…
Allan Savory asks what will consistently work to resolve the desertification problem hence the loss of wildlife. His solution is profoundly simple but agrees no one solution is correct.
We – if we have this restoration farming as we’ve said – we can actually uniquely produce food of very high nutritional integrity, clean green.
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