2016-03-19 18:53
This is what I saw in the sky yesterday morning. The Moon. How do you get over the Moon?This item first appeared in "Envirofarming: Love That Soil", a blog found at http://envirofarming.blog… Read More
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This is the diary of an Australian family who escaped from the city, joined a farming community, and learned to love soil. Carbon Farming is about growing soil carbon - the first link in our food chain. The topsoil is where God's creation is taking place, at every moment. Carbon is the building block of life. By growing it we can restore ecosystems to health. At the same time we can remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere and store it as Carbon in the soil.
2016-03-19 18:53
Hi all. For those that don't yet know, Chenj, our family dog of 13 or 15 years went for her last visit to the vet today. she was having trouble even walking. She was in pain. Dan… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Jessica and Fred, to be married in March. It is a beautiful thing... and Fred has my book on how to be a perfect husband. Unfortunately it doesn't teach readers how to cook. Louisa and I ha… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In the wake of a major thunderstorm that hit Port Stephens while I was there to help some friends with a marketing challenge. The rain was still belting down, but the thunder and lightening… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
"Uamby" has a range of seasonal visitors during spring and summer. The fruit ad blossoms on the trees bring them. The loudest and most unruly are the Friar Birds who squabble and fight with… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
All the way from Britain, Mukti Campion and Caroline Holmes (a distant relative of SHerlock, the famous detective) came out this week to find out about Carbon Farming. They spent around 4 ho… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
Tom Nicholson from Queensland, who we first met at Christine Jones's first Carbon Forum at Armidale, came by on his way to WA. He is writing a book about Carbon Farming He intends to intervi… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
No, not crop circles but "Pasture Squares". It is an experiment to see if we can freshen the pasture and give the sheep access to the longer grasses mixed up among the thistles, by carving… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
Louisa was runner-up in the NSW RIRDC Rural Women’s Award 2008. The winner was Tracey Knowland, a businesswoman from Brooklet near Byron Bay. Here's how the organisers presented he tw… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
Last week I sat for a few minutes singing and strumming some of my songs out front of the house while the ewes grazed in "House Paddock". A little audience gathered out of the road to listen… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
We got a surprise one morning a week or so ago when this tall,d ark and handsome man came to the back door. "SHerro!" It was Tim SHeridan, who we knew when at Bathurst (Mitchell College) in… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
This is a photo of the audience at the Macquarie 2000 Landcare AGM 2 weeks ago. We spoke on the same program as Christine Jones who is a stunning educator. It was a pleasure to be working wi… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
We have always hated mulesing but did it because 'they' said we should. But now we hope we don't have to do it ever again. We are replacing our rams gradually with Multi Purpose Merinos, the… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
SALT PANS SCATTERED ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE IN WALouisa and I flew to Western Australia to speak at the Western Australia No Till Farming Association conference at Perth (outside Perth at the V… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
This is a shot from "Healing the Land", the TV Documentary which is studying the alternative agriculture movement around the world. In this shot Louisa is mustering the ewes from Creek Paddo… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
There's always a camera stuck in your face.Here is Louisa being interviewed for Regional Television outside Hamilton NZ. Mandy, the journalist, is a shoestring budget operator who will one d… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
My very good friend Mike Connor is 64 today. He is symbolic of all of us for lots of reasons. He's living his dream, sailing the northern waters with his wife Michelle, who he is damn lucky… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
These are the rosellas frolicking in the fountain outside our window at Milton Park, the Southern Highlands Stately Country House where daughter Jessica married Fred Schebesta on Easter Mond… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
FIRST ATTEMPT - CRASH!LAUNCHED BY NONIACTION CAMERAWORK BY PA...THERE'S BEEN A FALL...SECOND TRY - SUCCESS!THE SMILE OF TRIUMPH...This item first appeared in "Envirofarming: Love That Soil"… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
We recently put a small amount (200kg) of "Caliope" out as a thumbnail trial on a hectare in a paddock close to the house (Stanley Paddock). We call it a thumbnail trial because we want to m… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
We often see a wedgetail eagle calmly scouting out wht's below from on high and I rush for a camera. We even occasionally get three circling together. Well, I was up on the highest point on… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
Tim Woods, one of our classmates from the first "Farming Systems Course" came out to help us do some pasture cropping. We used his 'no kill' direct drill rig which he built out of a second… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
Michael Kiely, convenor, Carbon Coalition, gets his man! The Hon. Tony Burke was the guest of honour at the RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year event in Canberra. The Coalition had made an approa… Read More
2008-12-10 11:14
I saw this tree through the window of the car while we were held up at roadworks on the road between Mudgee and Lithgow. I stared at it for a while, thinking it looked out-of-this-worldish… Read More
2008-04-05 20:49
Today we received news abot the BBC # documentary episode featuring Uanby:Producer Mukti 'Campion wrote:Dear Michael and LouisaThe series is now ready for broadcast and you are in Episode 3… Read More
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