How to Drought-Proof your Farm
We're getting harder hit by drought. Standard solutions no longer seem enough. Earthworks like swales, contour banks, Natural Sequence Farming, and Keyline Design can help you drought-proof your farm. But
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Ecological Practices
Recommended Videos – Eco-logical Techniques for Regenerating Soil
Soils are complex. We can get caught up in a maze of information - pH, cation exchange capacities, calcium-magnesium ratios, manipulating rhizospheres, microbiomes, and so on... And get trapped into
How to Choose Plants that Work – 3 Simple Steps
One of the most frustrating things about growing plants is their cost and propensity to fail! It can take hours of research to choose plants, whether we're growing salad greens,
How to Reduce your Fertiliser Costs
With escalating fertiliser costs and broken supply chains, farmers are looking for ways to reduce their fertiliser costs.
There's a lot of talk about using legumes, organic and biological alternatives, variable
Agroforestry – Alley Cropping Vegetables
Alley cropping is an agroforestry design used to increase food supplies (leaves and other organic waste materials, root tissues and root exudates to our soil ecosystem.[1] Alley cropping also helps
Grow Food that looks after Itself!
Wouldn't it be great to grow food that looks after itself - strong, healthy, and self-sufficient plants that produce food for us rather than insects! It's frustrating when our vegetables
Orchards can be Enchanting
Are you tired of your orchard just being a place where you work, instead of an enchanting space - like the beautiful orchards in the stories we grew up with...
How to Control Insect Pests – Eco-logically
Would you make visiting a hydroponics farm a priority to find out how to control insect pests in your garden or farm? Growing vegetables in plastic trays without soil, and
How to Rewild your Garden (and still Grow Food)
There is a common misconception that to rewild our gardens, we have to allow them to return to Nature, leaving us no space to grow food. It's not true.
Rewilding isn't