We’re into the New Year and with it comes New Year’s resolutions. What’s yours? One of mine is to care less what other people think. I know I’m not alone here, it’s a common one. Most of us do care what everyone else thinks. We are a social species after all and being approved of [...]
It was my “Plant Protection” (code for how to kill competitors in monoculture cropping) lecturer at University who first posed this seemingly simple question to a bunch of disinterested, (probably hung-over) budding Ag Scientists - about 30 years ago. “A weed is a plant out of place” was the seemingly simple answer. So [...]
By Tim Scott We all hear that to feed 9 billion humans, the expected world population by 2050, we need to increase food production by 60% from current levels.* A rising population, along with a new problem; a backdrop of ESG and environmental targets around carbon emissions (as one example) by corporations who don’t understand [...]
An emerging theme that we have noticed when dealing with farmers on their regenerative journey is how the process regenerates them too. I’ve thought long and hard about this, wondering what it is that is so restorative about aligning with nature rather than working in spite of her. The answer is obvious in some ways. [...]
We all know on some level that what we eat directly impacts our health and the way we feel. But there is more to it than that. It’s not just what we eat, it’s how what we eat was produced that can impact us so profoundly. Apples are not just apples. There is a world [...]
Last month we talked about greenwashing and how the deliberate misleading of consumers is happening more and more, especially with words like ‘regenerative’ and/or ‘chemical free’. Produce can even be labelled as organic with no requirement whatsoever that it be produced organically (however it can only be labelled CERTIFIED organic if it has been produced [...]
The thing about being farmers as well as being Farm Store Keepers is that when we consider products and services for the store we think about how we could use them ourselves in our farming operation. Being certified organic and on our own regenerative farming journey we are not attracted to products, services or companies [...]
As the regenerative farming movement gains momentum we are sadly seeing examples of the ‘regenerative’ word being used with no real substance to back it up. This style of marketing even has a name: ‘Greenwashing’ - marketing that misleads consumers into believing that a product is environmentally friendly when it is not. We find this [...]
Evolved over Millenia the predator and prey relationship is at the heart of a thriving natural environment. After wolves were hunted to extinction in the earlier part of the 20th Century, Elk populations exploded in Yellowstone National Park with regular culling ineffective to control numbers. The highly controversial reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park [...]
Roadsides, parks, footpaths and utilities are primarily “maintained” using poison. We have become used to seeing large areas around our signposts and guideposts “browned out” prior to roadside mowing while spraying edges of footpaths, culverts, traffic islands, railway tracks and so on is seen by many as an indicator of “good management” and a necessity [...]
