Many high country sheep and beef farms are already carbon-neutral or very close, as research at AUT discovered last year. It’s just a case of proving it, like Lake Hawea Station did, to become the first carbon-neutral farm in New Zealand. Continue reading New Zealand’s First Certified Carbon-Neutral Farm
With fertile soil now being lost at a rate of 24bn tonnes a year, pollution of the world’s soils will only get worse if urgent action isn’t taken, concludes a new UN report. And this will have a devastating effect on our fragile ecosystems and human health. Continue reading Urgent Action Needed for Soil Pollution
The Billion Agave Project – In Mexico, a group of farmers are regenerating their desert land with agaves, deep-rooted nitrogen-fixing companion trees and holistic grazing. Continue reading Greening the Desert with Agave
An in-depth interview with Walter Jehne, soil microbiologist and climate scientist, on the crucial Soil Carbon Sponge. Continue reading Walter Jehne: In-Depth on the Soil Carbon Sponge
Our next webinar will be looking at livestock methane in terms of carbon emissions in the farming industry. Continue reading ODPG WEBINAR: Methane. Friend or Foe?
An article in Scoop focuses on the Climate Change Commission’s report, which advocates sweeping changes in many areas, but unfortunately does not go far enough in the field of agriculture. Continue reading Does Climate Commission Report Fail to Push a Farming Switch
This article – ‘Grow Roots to put Soil Microbes to Work’ – from the Rodale Institute with Soil Ecologist Francesca Cotrufo (Ph.D) provides a great explanation of the role of microbes and roots in the sequestration of carbon in soil. Continue reading Microbes and the Soil Carbon Cycle
In this presentation from the ODPG Conference, Walter Jehne looks at how Organic and Regenerative principles restore soil function, restore the filtering of nutrients, restore soil carbon and restore water storage; all of which mitigate and reverse Climate Change. Continue reading Walter Jehne: ODPG Conference Presentation
Join us on an Ian Mitchell Innes workshop in December. Renowned educator in Holistic Management, Mitchell-Innes is a man who learnt from his own costly mistakes and now travels the world teaching pastoral farmers how to use nature to make their farm more profitable, no matter what their environment. Continue reading Be More Profitable by Learning from the Best
A former agriculture journalist asks, instead of concentrating on the negatives of the hard task ahead, why aren’t we looking at the farmers who are busy making successful environmentally-friendly changes to see what can and is being done? Continue reading What Can and Can’t Be Done