Over the Fence with Stuart Andrews from Forage Farms - Natural Sequence Farming
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- Natural Sequence Farming is a revolution in the way farming is viewed in Australia. The system has been pioneered by the Peter and Stuart Andrews. Agree or not, the philosophy of regenerating land rather than depleting it just makes sense. This video is the result of editing nearly two hours of video footage and four hours of a fascinating and inspirational visit to Stuart's Gympie farm.
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Great to see the son of God continue his legacy and keep educating us we need it😊
Love the new hat. About time. This guy really knows what he is talking about. Nutrition is everything and reusing certainly cuts costs for nutrition/fertaliser. Hits the nail on the head! Made think about a few things on my property Always good/exelent. as usual.
Thank you, fellas, for the podcast. Listen, learn, make mistakes and relearn. The only way to survive. My dad was a drainer ha, but I'm now goin to at contour banks to my draining in my paddocks.
What caught my attention is how this farming method is essentially the integration and management of the water and nutrient cycles, allowing biodiversity to return to the landscape to build a healthy, interactive and robust ecosystem on a tired and exhausted landacape. Great to see this enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.
@@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.
Great video Tim. The stuff “you couldn’t cut” was gold. Really good to see Stuart having a good crack and slowly changing the thought process’s of farming that we have inherited from our pioneer forebears. I am excited about the future of grazing and farming due to these modern pioneers. Thanks for sharing and well done. 👍
I could have listened for hours and hours more about the stuff you "couldn't cut". Corporate farming has taken over the US market and impacted the product for short term gain instead of product quality. We need more education like this and the support for diverse farming.
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!
Stuart Andrews - what a bloody legend
As a former plumber, I'm not offended. I wish I'd been a farmer in stead. Too late now! Thanks for hooking up with Stuart and making this vid. The day you stop learning is the day you start dying
How true.
I was lucky enough to go on a farm tour and listen to his father's explanation for why he did everything. I also have one of his books.
I now have my own property. While I haven't been able to do all the large scale land restoration Id like to. And have third parties destroying my land management practices. Around my home I've gone from white quartzite sandy land to organic rich black soil.
My chickens dust bath wallows collect water and help soak the nutrients down into the clays. Like you were discussing.
With Cleaver fencing chickens will Terrace the land for you while arating and fertiliser it. If you put wood rows on the lower side they will eventually be covered and act like hugacukture. As an intermediary stage they act like swales. Unfortunately most of mine get stolen. Even a tree that's fallen placed on the contur will help with erosion and creat micro climates.
We are taught that monoculture is bad but there are garlic farms that are centuries old. With the correct land management and respecting natural biodiversity for our climate and land especially with trees, micro organisms and fungi that have interconnected systems, nutrients can move in many ways. Allowing monoculture to work well within a larger macroenvironment. Our problem is we've taken monoculture to the extreme without respect for the larger Web of life that existed initially.
Outstanding video Tim. It's great that you captured Stuart's passion for his techniques and able to share that with your audience.
Peter Andrews was and is my hero. Now people think I’m nuts because I run my property with the manage, but let it be mentality. Works for me and my place in Queensland is generally green and I’ve only seen the creek dry up a couple of times over the last ten years. I loved all the reports and interviews Peter gave. I do hope his son acknowledges the fact that he is working with all his father’s ideas and knowledge.
Gday Tim, I’ve done Stuart’s four day course and I have to say it was by far the most I’ve learned ever. It gave me hope in our industry that I thought was lost. Irrespective for your type of landscape, the natural sequence farming techniques will work. I was so pleased to see you with Stuart. Great stuff.
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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Excellent!
Exactly the direction I want to move our place in. It's always been a sheep property, but never a micromanaged pasture property, so we already have a good level of biodiversity to start with. Great video!
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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 -
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Peter Andrews was featured on ABC Landline about 10 years ago, if memory serves he was doing a job for Gerry Harvey in the Hunter Valley, just practical, logical stuff, not bogged down by green obligations to native plants, he uses what’s available, if it’s a weed and it grows and slows runoff it’s way better than nothing. Come to think of it he’s probably got stuff on UA-cam.
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.
Hi Tim, love all your vids because of the practical learning I get from them, but this has to be the best one you have done mate, and I am extremely grateful. I am going back to watch it a few times to grasp all of the concepts. Also appreciated the out takes! My small farm near Warwick in QLD (around 200 km from Stuart's) looked like that at the peak of the drought 6 weeks ago. We had kangaroos eating every last dry blade of grass (around 50-60 animals on a 60 acre block). Cannot do much about it because I am too close to town to shoot them, use them for meat etc. Since the rains started around 5 weeks ago, we are back to normal where we have between 2 and 4 kangaroos as the resident population. The rest of spread out as nature intended. As expected, one of the results of the dought ending is that weeds have sprouted every where. Many are weeds that I have never seen before, they must have been in the seed bank for many years. Many thanks.
Great video Tim, thanks for putting in the effort to make a big trip and share it with us. Great content as always
Farmers in Rajasthan and Maharashtra came to understand that fertility cycle when in the 80's during a terrible drought. They began digging ponds to collect rainwater run-off for second and third field crops after the seasonal rains stopped. The muck of silts and organic matter in the bottom of the ponds would be dug up every year or two and spread back onto the fields. Groundwater in the whole area improved and quality of life went up significantly for the villages that began to close the water and nutrient cycle
What an amazing story. Thankyou.
Sounds great I will try this, makes sense, I will try on my 11 acres, pigs more chooks and farows thanks
Margaret tasmania
This is amazing we learn from the best and also allowing ourselves to learn everyday knowledge❤
That was great I really enjoyed the interview. Makes a lot of sense to try to get the balance back with the land and animals.
Holy crap a new video awesome stuff mate thanks as always for the amazing effort your content is amazing
Another great video thanks Tim. So much to think about, I’ll have to watch it again! Particularly liked the idea of animal diversity (I’d only ever thought of biodiversity in terms plants and beneficial insects not livestock) and the idea of using contours/wetlands to catch and move both water and nutrients around your farm. Really interesting stuff!
Stewart struggling with the sun, while wearing shades on his hat, brilliant. 😎
He was polite enough to remove them for the camera. I’m grateful to him for his good manners and wonderful hospitality.
Great interview Tim. I'm an expat Australian living in Chihuahua Mexico, degraded drylands. Stuart: Why does your land seem to lack trees? Even the Australian trees and bushes seem scarce such as wattle, gravilia... Cattle and chickens in Mexico eat not only grasses but alot of tree fodder such as mulberry, poplar, apple, pomegranate, prickly pear pads, and lots of weeds such as amaranth purslane, malva, alfalfa, pumpkin leaves... There must be more bush and tree fodder that you can grow in your area as well as so much grass?
He only bought the property a year prior to filming. As such it’s a good glimpse into the process of rehabilitation
Bloody good content mate - no bs
what a legend, good on ya!
I live in south Florida USA. We have/had the everglades (literally sea of grass). It used to be fed by a large lake called Okeechobee. This made for one of the largest wetlands on the planet. This fed controlled amounts of nutrients to the gulf and the Atlantic Ocean. Even over my 40 years on this planet I've seen this system trying to be controlled by man to terrible ends. When I was a kid we would hunt cane fields for hare, now thoes cane fields have stripped the soil and can barely support rice. The hare are gone replaced by rats and iguana. The damage to costal life is irreparable. Where you would travel through a dozen biomes in 3 feet of elevation from sea-level, has been replaced by open canals and worse just piped out of existence.
Such a shame to see that isn’t it?
I would be feeding the pigs broad beans in the spring and tree lucerne and moringa in the summer. Its funny how the ground gets bare everywhere, but there are fairly shallow rooted weeds thriving. Those trees are green. Everything should be green. Are trees herbs, cause cows will leave grass and clover behind, but they will not leave a tree leaf behind, that can can reach.
Great work Tim.
Subscribed.
Tim, just wanted to give a personal thank you for this awesome profile of this amazing farm. I read about them in Charles Massy’s book. You’re making a difference. Thank you for a great video.
BTW, any explanation how they get water “uphill” when water obviously only runs downhill?
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.
I have one suggestion for u .. when Stuart says something like he transfers the lower nutrients to the higher elevations, edit in how he does that by video. That way, one gets to see what he means visually.
Otherwise a very good interview.
Great Information
Great video, thanks for your effort
great video and especially the comments at the end. I need to go back and write down the list of supements for th he travelling mineral feeder
The Supplement Trailer for the cows @ 22:10 is interesting.
Providing: Diatomaceous Earth, Sulfur, Salt, Dolomite, Copper Sulfate, Rock Phosphate, Charcoal and Seaweed.
Brilliant
gday Tim i think this video is fantastic, very informative and a fresh approach. Just one thing in terms of the videos, I think if you grab a little lapel microphone (i think they coast around 70 or 80 bucks) it'll help with the sound a little bit when it's windy because some parts of the video are a little difficult to hear. But great job mate subscribed!
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.
Great guitar music at 29:30, Can I ask the artist/song etc?
25:00 Just a thought from far abroad:
It's interesing to hear from a white man nowadays what a native person - i suppose - could have had in mind couple of hundred years ago. "Observe the nature". How different attitude from those who came there in the past and destroyed the delicate ballance.
I'd say with people like this gentelman - humanity would not be lost. Pitty, that for a gem like him there are milions of ignorants though :/ .
What happens if you do not let life stock graze but let the land be?
Fire
Tim, did they put your old hat in quarantine at the airport ?
Totally enjoy your video topics, but you seriously in the windy zones, invest in a microphone shield.
I have just binge watched a whole bunch of your vids and this was the most enjoyable .. well done to Both of you. Yes, if we could get more people eating Kangaroo that would be great. The Biden administration isn't helping with its il-informed rhetoric and posturing and telling us what we should be doing with our Kangaroos ..!
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.
Lantana problem
Melon holes in central Qld aren’t caused by pigs. The Aborigines called them Gilgais. If something has an Aboriginal name it was probably here before white man. Pigs came here with white man, Gilgais are a natural occurrence. Good video allasame.
Did he ever get to go back to what he was going to talk about
Hey mate. Another good video. Just wondering when it was filmed
Pretty sure his dad is the one who did that not him
This was Stuart’s farm. His work. Yes his dad pioneered some of the techniques. Family business.
I get that this is filmed in the middle of a drought, but the topic is regenerative agriculture and those fields are dead and dry. The information was informative, but the setting was counterintuitive.
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.
Gotta filter those wind pops on the microphone
Oh my... you guys needed to understand Permacultre... its a 1000 times more than what you are looking at. Use swallys not drainage to store water in the landscape.
70% regeneration with productive diversity.
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 UA-cam 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. ☺