Over the Fence with Stuart Andrews from Forage Farms - Natural Sequence Farming 

How true.

@@FarmLearningTim (Or anyone else for that matter) if you are interested in other similar approaches to regenerative agricultural practices, then these two suggestions may be of interest: Holzer Permaculture and Regrarians. Keyline farming was also established in Australia by P.A. Yeomans. I think Stuart Andrews was explaining this practice when he spoke about getting water to the ridges in your video.

Happens really damn fast with a little help too.

Agreed. Produce in the US is DREADFUL, as are the mass-scale agricultural practices in places like Central California. However, as this information spreads, positive changes will come.........especially since they involve saving farmers lots of money!

Thanks for the recommendation Alan... I live near Gympie. I think I'll take a look at doing one of them.

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@Kaleb Arthur Instablaster ;)

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Dittos, hey this character and his son could save the American public trillions of trillions off the debt this country has suffered over the years by supporting some of these insane programs and not the reintroduction of beaver nation wide, and implementing Mr. Peter Andrews programs, but that makes way too much sense for the powers that be.

Woodriffe Farm - Hi Just wondering where your farm is located state? And are you looking for anyone to assist with a passion in this type of farming? If not and you know another farmer who is I would be very interested in having a chat. And here is email - provisionfitouts@gmail.com

Such a shame to see that isn’t it?

He only bought the property a year prior to filming. As such it’s a good glimpse into the process of rehabilitation

He was polite enough to remove them for the camera. I’m grateful to him for his good manners and wonderful hospitality.

Thanks mate. They pump to a header tank for the runoff trenches, but the contours they put in spread the water sideways. So if you have enough, water runs uphill... pretty amazing.

Check my edited reply.... it’s been a while since I filmed the video and I thought you were talking about something else. Water runs uphill due to contouring and waters natural tendency to wick through soil. Hopefully that makes sense...

Saying the same as below... landscapes have hills and gullies. If you cut a Swale, on contour ditch, at right angles to the gully and place a small retention rock wall with a tree such as a willow in the gully, when it rains the water flowing in the gully will stop gushing in the gully and spread out along the on contour swale and finally reach the neighbouring ridge.

Thanks Andrew. This video was shot with a $300 Rode wireless Go. Unfortunately the Rode deadcat falls off in the wind. Not kidding. REALLY BAD design. One of the hardest things to do when filming outside is cope with wind. Especially when interviewing people. Wind is my number one enemy. These days I have even taken to putting the microphone INSIDE my shirt pocket. Great microphone, completely useless Deadcat design. Embarrassingly bad. Glad you like the videos.

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Mate, thanks for your shout out. Great that you’re enjoying it. Ummm… Biden is a Yank. Kangaroos are Australian? huh? Confused about that one. Happy to be enlightened…..

@@FarmLearningTim The Biden government has banned the importation of any and all kangaroo product into the US because of misinformation sprouted by ill informed people.

@@muzzgit Ah... Thanks.

Hey mate. Another good video. Just wondering when it was filmed

This was Stuart’s farm. His work. Yes his dad pioneered some of the techniques. Family business.

Aussie landscapes get really dry mate. The growth under weeds and in the wallow holes was especially important. I’m glad I filmed at this most challenging time rather than in spring when the grass was 6 feet tall like everybody else seems to. That’s actually complete b.s. I’m glad Stuart was prepared to show the reality

At 5:30 you can see how the water soakage from the swales has created green grass surrounded by the dried out areas. This would not have been evident if the video was shot when everything else was green!! Australia is the driest inhabited continent and has the most variable climate on the planet. This video shows that Stuart has made it a priority to maintain some form of cover for his soil and resisted the urge to graze it down to bare earth.

Ummm..... did you watch the video???? He is removing drainage and implementing contouring to store water. The main point of this video was sequential species rotation in grazing. There are lots of theories to learn from. Let's be nice to each other and share the collective progress.

@@FarmLearningTim Tim to start, Love your RU-vid channel. I thought you we showing what he had done... what he is starting to think about is the right direction. Moving water in the landscape and hydrating it is the next generation but if not done right creates other problems. Drainage / drains have a use but are not a good. The term swale is important as in design and functions provide key elements that are very important is water storage, nutrient storage and flow, multiple stacked functions. Like dams swales also need storm flow management that can and should be done to mitigate any erosion or impacts. Generally done by four different methods. Tree fodder line / food forests sit off the back off the swale / lower side to provide nutrient flow to pasture. Pasture width should be roughly shadow line of the trees. You start from the ridges not the bottom of the landscape as everything runs down hill, tree in the ridge. The problem with the traditional farming principles and as you touched on is open loss where you need inputs. Closed loop or regenerative approach is striking a balance but abundance should be the aim. Don't get me wrong as he is obviously starting to look in the best direction but there is a lot of this already done and brilliant example out there though Permacuture principles. I know of a QLD farmer that bought an 80 ton excavator and with his scrappers and grader was building mass swales to hydrate his property. That was a few years ago so I would say thay paid for them selves this years rainfall. Anywho have a look at Jeff Lawtons stuff and food forestry. Like to see you explore the Permacuture solution more. ☺