Landcare Officer Joanna Wren
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Lower Blackwood LCDC posted an update in the group
6 months agoTrees on Farms 6 months agoWe thought this topic needed to be included in the community and to start things off we pulled this webinar out of the archives to get you thinking!
https://lowerblackwood.com.au/agroforestry-growing-trees-for-conservation-profit/
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Agroforestry - Growing Trees For Conservation & Profit - Webinar Recording - Lower Blackwood LCDC
Simply put, agroforestry means combining agriculture and trees. Agroforestry is a land management approach with multiple benefits. Planting trees on farms can
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Lower Blackwood LCDC posted an update a year ago
Invitation to Participate in our Regenerative Agriculture in Practice Program (RAPP) 2024.
This program is open to grazing farmers in the Shire of Augusta
Margaret River who are interested in understanding the fundamental principles
of regenerative agriculture, and how to transition to a regenerative approach
to farming.The program is broken up…
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Regenerative Agriculture In Practice Project (RAPP) 2024 - Lower Blackwood LCDC
Regenerative agriculture is not a ‘one size fits all’ approach to farming or land management. There’s also no strict rule book, but the holistic principles
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year ago (edited)Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures a year agoSome follow up photos post the Soilkee seeding.
No real rain post seeding 4 weeks ago so it has all been irrigation.
Competition is causing the expected challenges with some areas being hard to see any seed coming up at all. But other areas are relatively easy to see.
Jury’s still out on the benefit of the Soilkee. Spacing looks too wide to me,…
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I saw this pic on a facebook post from someone in Victoria – it looks similar into existing pasture.
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year agoMake Your Own Biological Inputs a year agoWe have managed to source some cheaper seconds mulies for $2/kg – see photo. Much more cost effective!
So we have put 15 x 20kg boxes into a 1,000 litre pod to make a fish hydrolysate plus water, molasses and the base culture.
The ones that were made on farm with David Hardwick used a minced up burley block of Mulies which have gone well and…
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It’s all a bit fishy!😅
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A quick update – the fish bodies have all broken down with only the bones still around. Needs a stir every few weeks to help keep the process going which gets it bubbling again for a day or two. Smell wise it’s not sweet but it’s not like awful rotting fish either – just slightly unpleasant on the nose. Not to bad for 6 weeks of fermentation.
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year ago (edited)Make Your Own Biological Inputs a year agoA couple of photos of the humate and seaweed drums, plus a patch that got a heavy spray whilst we adjusted the spray unit. You can see a solid brown stain on the grass from the extract mix. Maybe we will see super bacteria, fungi and microbes in this area 😬.
Should say if you have a fine screen in the spray unit it will block it up straight…
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You are welcome Brett.. let’s hope the Johnson Su does it’s job!😁
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year agoMake Your Own Biological Inputs a year agoMaking the compost
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Awesome work!! You guys have definitely been busy 🙂
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year ago (edited)Make Your Own Biological Inputs a year agoBusy weekend, besides the seeding got a Johnson Su Compost Bioreactor going – made out of a couple of IBC’s..
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Brett Hazelden posted an update in the group
a year agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures a year agoManaged to get our 9.5ha of irrigation paddocks seeded this weekend using the Soilkee mulcher and seeder after coating the seed the day before. Also added in some guano to the seed mix to see if it helps putting it down the same seeding slot.
We have not killed the existing pasture but rather cut it down with the mulcher to allow it to…
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Great work Brett! What variety of Pennisetum is it.. haven’t heard of that in a mix before??
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Dean Campbell posted an update in the group
a year agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures a year agoView more comments-
Hitech drag!
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Such an awesome little machine!
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Murray Gomm posted an update in the group
a year agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures a year agoI’m happy to see chicory and plantain coming thru my vine inter row cover crop after sheep have grazed the crop down. Looking forward to them both being actively feeding microbes during summer also. the cover crop (Goodies Farm mix plus linseed, chicory, plantain and primrose) were sown mid April. I felt a bit guilty cultivating thin strips with…
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That sounds like a great mix of species Murray.
We dry seed the inter rows in late summer, when all the weeds are dead, to avoid tilling.
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Murray,
We converted a small rotary hoe to a strip seeder with tyre drags behind. Seemed to work quite well. I’ll try get a video of it for you.
Dean
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