Clean Green Farming Future

Clean Green Farming Future My learnings. My experiences Do I have all the answers....hell no! But nobody does. It's a lifelong commitment to striving, improvement and change.

Perhaps you have a vision in your mind of what you ' think' your farm should look like, but you're not sure how to make that a reality. Or maybe there's a niggling feeling in the pit of your stomach that's telling you something about your farming needs to change...but what thing/s? With 20 years of hands on, practical experience across 2 farms, my family and I have dealt with plenty of the same i

ssues that you are probably looking at on your own farm. Everyone, experts included, is learning on the job...because that's how farming is. Let's start to make all that effort deliver significant positive impact that will still be evident in 100 or 500 years time. How can that be done? By working together, to identify the issues that stop YOU getting back to sleep at 3am. Talking them through until we know the best way for YOU to handle them. Identifying goals that YOU have for your farm, that have been pushed away into the back corner of your mind because there's been no time for them yet. Coaching can be challenging, but it will also be supportive and exciting. Our farm lands hold so much potential! Working together with the natural systems can bring about change very quickly and will get you asking ' What else is possible?"

VERY exciting to have Alejandro Carrillo presenting at our farm.Another of our online/virtual mentors who have helped us...
19/05/2025

VERY exciting to have Alejandro Carrillo presenting at our farm.
Another of our online/virtual mentors who have helped us without knowing it, who is just as kind & knowing in person as they are on the screen.💚

Technology is showing us secrets not seen before....
30/04/2025

Technology is showing us secrets not seen before....

Mesmerizing light microscopy image from a skeleton of a diatom algae 32 to 40 million years old. Diatoms are photosynthesizing algae at the base of the marine food chain, found in almost every aquatic environment. They are single celled organisms that produce an external wall composed of silica. When they die, their silica shells accumulate on the floor of the body of water in which they live. Thick layers of these diatom shells have been fossilized into sedimentary rock called diatomite, or Diatomaceous earth!

📸 : Anatoly Mikhaltso

05/04/2025

Ooooooh but it's so exciting to see so much biomass growing where once there was only sparse little clumps of Forest Grass (Themeda triandra). Nothing against the Themeda, but this is approaching 7/8 ft tall. No tilling, no fertiliser.

Giant grass (Java Black Bamboo) shimmering in the stiff cyclonic breeze on this Autumn afternoon🌬The paddocks are full o...
02/03/2025

Giant grass (Java Black Bamboo) shimmering in the stiff cyclonic breeze on this Autumn afternoon🌬
The paddocks are full of feed but it's starting to look crispy..🍂
Cows waiting for the gate to open into new grazing.🐂
Cyclone/no cyclone...we'll have to wait and see, but on the mean time, we monitor and manage for what we have today.💚

10/08/2024

Is this a tumbleweed problem or something else?
These fascinating plants carry their seed with them and create a protective barrier & microclimate for new plants...tumbleweeds and others. If you look into the background of this clip, there are no plants capable of buffering that strong wind. This isn't always trees..some landscapes don't support BIG trees...but hardy shrubs able to filter the wind and maybe make a tumbleweed barrier would be a benefit to the householders.

'Nother sunrise...'Nother round of hay heading out...Putting our drought plan into play helps ease the strain, but times...
31/10/2023

'Nother sunrise...
'Nother round of hay heading out...
Putting our drought plan into play helps ease the strain, but times are tough...


18/10/2023

I'm sure the local aren't impressed, but this is pretty interesting from the other side of the world!!
These tumbleweeds are fascinating. They are tough as nails, growing when not much else does. They spread seed as they get blown along - incredibly efficient. And they when they do hook up and stay put, they create a little micro climate for other plants to establish...

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=890882309047291

After a week of strong wind, I found Bunya Pine flower parts on rhe leeward side of the tree.Giant pine cones to follow!...
12/10/2023

After a week of strong wind, I found Bunya Pine flower parts on rhe leeward side of the tree.
Giant pine cones to follow!!

Farm house reno rebuild continues..50 yr old HARDWOOD fascia timbers - the before and beautiful after.💓And my arms can c...
08/10/2023

Farm house reno rebuild continues..
50 yr old HARDWOOD fascia timbers - the before and beautiful after.💓
And my arms can confirm it truly is HARD wood. 😁


Can't say this or love this enough!  💚
14/09/2023

Can't say this or love this enough!
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They say you should never meet your heroes...but I've not been disappointed yet.I had the great pleasure of meeting Alej...
13/09/2023

They say you should never meet your heroes...but I've not been disappointed yet.
I had the great pleasure of meeting Alejandro Carillo recently and hearing first hand about the amazing positive changes he is seeing on his family ranch in the Chihuanan desert.
The birds, insects, flora, wildlife and livestock are all increasing inside the boundaries while neighbouring ranches continue to degrade and be a lot more difficult to manage.
Thank you Alejandro for coming such a long way and for sharing your story so humbly.
Big thanks to the team who made it happen. BIEDO DAF Kingaroy Kingaroy Shire Council

So interesting!Nature has everything sorted out exactly as it needs to be.
27/06/2023

So interesting!
Nature has everything sorted out exactly as it needs to be.

Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen. Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1. Rumen - The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaweed moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages.
2. Reticulum -- This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3. Omasum - The 3rd part is a tight basketball shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water and drying out the ingesta.
4. Abomasum - The 4th compartment is like our human stomach. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid for the final digestion before the intestines.
Check out what they look like!

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