A quick plug for a lecture series called Talking Regenerative Agriculture that we’re running on 15-16 July at the Mudgee Small Farm Field Days.
Two days of talks by farmers and folks doing amazing stuff in the realms of permaculture and regenerative agriculture!
We’ve somehow convinced a very impressive lineup of doers and thinkers to come along and share their knowledge on things like pasture cropping, humanure, natural beekeeping, biofertilizer, how grazing animals can save the world, aquaponics, how soil health defines people health and who knows what else… Read More
You would have to be living under a large, large rock to not have heard about the concept of Peak Oil. It’s scary stuff – much debated by many, scoffed by some, acknowledged as a player on the field by all. Something’s going on with the oil. Who can access it depends on who is friends with who this week, and it is something that all the major car companies are trying to prepare for (a sure sign that someone high up in their respective corporate structures is mighty tetchy about it). Down here at the ‘little ol’ me’ level, the implications of this sort of change is… unsettling, to say the least. 
Self seeded fruit trees in culverts, old orchards on abandoned sites, food trees hanging over the fence into the back laneway. It’s all what is known as ‘feral fruit’ and it’s one of the best, if unheralded, community resources an area has, whether you be in an inner-city suburb or out in the middle of nowhere.
