Our Property
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Our property is
situated near Guyra at the top of the catchment (1320 m above sea level) in the
New England Tablelands of northern NSW.
We have been
farming and grazing our 120 Hectare property for the last 26 years and have
made some major improvements. Some of these are:-
Remineralisation of our soils toward the ‘Albrecht soil
balancing’ model
Planted thousands of trees/shrubs/herbs over the
whole property. When we took over the property back 1983 we had 130 trees in
total. The lack of trees were due to 'die back' in the area combine with
over clearing for farming purposes.
Created many ‘eco-sinks’ by fencing off
dams to allow habitat for native birds and animals as well as increasing
biodiversity through the edge effect between grassland and water and scrubby
areas
Using biodynamics to re-align the farms energy
systems and enhance the soil biology. Part of our farm is currently in our pre-certification for organics as we
have always tried to be as close to organic as possible. Our cropping operation
of potatoes and small vegetable crops is now under Organic Certification.
The farm is ‘carbon positive’ as we have
continually built our soil humus levels through planned grazing to meet plant
recovery and this has allowed soil fertility to build. We are constantly
soil testing and recording organic matter levels.