wow, what a nice looking book. I guess when you get a writing farmer it is going to be good to read. Charles Massy is the same, it isn't the farm that is his life's work, it is the book. They showed this big new shed he's had to build to house all his piles of research materials and that's where he writes now.
The thing that immediately struck me about the ideas of regenerative farming was it was stuff I already knew from childhood.
When I moved here I got a fair bit of raised eyebrows from my neighbours because of my piles of pruned branches but in recent times I have received a few compliments for them so I guess the idea of regenerative farming has been going around.
yes so I am watching the film of the farmer spraying worm juice and compost extract all prepared himself in big tanks and I am thinking why not just pile up the compost on the fields and let the worms do the work, wouldn't it be faster it's worked for me and then see the point comes up about the weed seed in compost, oh right and that liquid compost extract doesn't have any in it.
He is cropping, buying no chemicals and leaving the field in better condition than before and moving to the next one and from the air you can see where he's been is a major improvement to the land. He is being paid by other farmers now to come to their land.
I know the people who like pigs speak very highly of them, and I can see that and a piglet sure is cute but I am a bit unnerved, I like cows more. you can't go hunting for mushrooms with a cow though.
