Animal Forage
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Success in Tough Times (France)
by Steve Hanson 2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from…
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Practical Plants Database
Fresh onto the interweb is a project that I had on my own things-to-do list for some time now, but…
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Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate Climate Australia for September 2012
This is the first monthly post for the research project about perennial plants and perennialising annual plants providing food in…
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Fernglade Farm – Early Spring (September) 2012 Update (Australia)
Writing the series about Food Forests has made me aware of how much interest there is in them and how…
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Food Forests, Part 4: Humanure (black water)
Poo. We all do it. Even the smallest microbes do it. However, when you are connected to a centralised sewerage…
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Australian Researchers Look into Alternative Forages for Horses
Browsing (feeding on vegetation other than grasses) may be an important aspect of the equine diet that is often overlooked,…
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Pasture Cropping: an Integrated Approach to Grain and Pasture Production
Harvesting oats as green native perennial pasture grows up between the cereal rows (Seis, 2006) Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated…
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Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of…
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Tree Cotton – Gossypium Arboreum
You might have seen the cotton growing out west — around St George, Gundiwindi and Dirranbandi in Queensland, Australia, and…
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Constructed Wetlands Treat Waste Water with Weeds
Overview Effluent processing all over the world requires large amounts of energy and/or chemicals to treat the waste water, or…
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Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agriculture”
Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil…
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Taranaki Farm Videos
How To Move Your Farm Animals Taranaki Farm shows you how to move a herd of cows, a flock of…
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