God Bless Peter and any like him, who devote, devoted their lives, their time in their lives!!! Thank goodness to God for such individuals as not all individuals are liken to them. 'Harvest plenty, laborers few'. The earth needs beautiful hearts of people to help ensure its beauty and care.
SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED MR ANDREWS WAS NOT EMBRACED BY GOVERNMENT YEARS AGO! HE HAS PROVEN HIS KNOWLEDGE, WHICH COULD RETURN MUCH OF THE DRY, DUST, RUINED AREAS OF THIS LAND BACK TO GREEN, WATERED, AND, PRODUCTIVE PLACES. WHAT A GIFT FOR FARMERS! LOVE HIM!
his an amazing guy, I wish we can distribute his work australia wide and bring this to peoples attention, his so right with whats happening in our rural areas and our drought problems.
A good mulch farming system example is Paul Gaultachi "Back to Eden". And also the Documentary on Black Indian Earth"Terra Preta" on how Amazonian Indian Ancestors farmed prior to white man is Fantastic and the principles of Peter Andrews.
Yes agree, it's about farming according to that particular country. Peter got much of his knowledge from growing up with aboriginal people in Australia who lived with the land. Using techniques that come from Europe just aren't appropriate to Australia's environment.
Wonderful man with amazing but logical story to tell. Peter is a true national treasure and his techniques need to be applied broadly across this nation.
Brilliant work Peter Andrews. Keep on going. Ultimately, it will be the tide of public opinion that perpetuates real change at government level. As long as people like Peter, and the many others around Australia and the world, keep pushing and demonstrating these environmental recovery type projects, more people will get on board and greater general public awareness will result.
Common sense and clarity in explaining the obvious, it hurts to know how right Peter is on these critical ideas. God Bless you and those who seek the healing of our dear and beloved Planet.
Much respect for this man and the other men who are doing the same this needs to happen World Wide God bless him for respecting nature and not working against it but with it
In slowing down the flow of water he has created a carbon sink, sequestering tonnes of carbon into the ground and drought proofed the property. This property is now a natural fire break and infinitely more fertile and profitable.
Anyone interested in sustainable / regenerative farming in Australia should read Charles Massy's "Call of the Reed Warbler" and Bruce Pascoe's " Dark Emu"
I hope the people at Cerro Gordo in California try to achieve what was done here. It would save Cerro Gordo, and possibly the valey below, which used to have a lake!
The proof, as it’s said, is in the pudding. What he did with his land is astounding. It’s mind boggling that the world isn’t flocking to the way he did it.
I lived on molokaii for a couple of years in an isolated valley were nobody lived but then i met a local hawaiian who knew a lot about that valley and said over three thousand people lived there up to about 100 years ago and grew a lot of taro and he showed me how they made terraces and planted taro and they kept the water from about 10 waterfalls up high as long as possible to water the taro and they had a whole productive system going and the old terraces were still there but totally overgrown and the valley was full of beautiful guava trees and one of the biggest mango tree i had ever seen no fruit on it probably about 150 to 200 years old but what the hawaiians did in that valley was amazing by keeping the water as high up the slopes and as long as they could and tin miners the same i live in an old tin mining area and the miners used gravity too digging races on slopes gradually bringing it down to a whole new area so there are a lot of swales in this country too thanks for all the info you are teaching lots of people i saw your first program on land line quiet a few years ago and often wondered what happened to you glad you are still teaching and that your health is okay i think john anderson introduced you to land line i think he has a very interesting podcast and wellworth listening to 🥰🌺🤗🌈😀❤️
He's right about the cattle dunging and trampling more than half of the plants but if they are moved onto mature plants that he's describing for short periods that dunging and trampling is what preserves the water retaining function while introducing fertility that plants alone can't provide.
Peter explains the ecology in round about ways. He would benefit by reducing the message to a couple paragraphs such as : slow the water in the channels, then plants will grow and add tilth / top soil that acts like a sponge much better than the eroded subsoil. Spread that soil higher in the watershed so it will act as a larger sponge and slowly release much more water into a positive feed back loop that will bring the land to health via the enhanced soil storing much more water than the current scenarios of depleted soil. I do think he would give grazers/ cattle more credit if their grazing was managed in rotation such as Allan Savory encourages. That gets the cattle themselves to passively move soil uphill.
Peter has such a great understanding of the environment. He cant be ignored. Farmers should follow his ideas and ignore the water authority rules. Trying to deal with useless Bureaucrats is worse than a Nuclear bomb.
just for example, if im on say 100 acres and ive got this pond, creek setup how does that help the rest of my 100 acres hold water? im missing something here but very interested in peters work and that of tony coote etc. ive seen how green parcels of land are from peters work, just dont understand how the small creek/pond setup helps the rest of the property. any advice or resources explaining this would be great thanks all
G'day Murf, it's like putting a plug back in the sink, to reconnect the flood plane to the creek/ pond. In a big rain event, the flood plane can be recharged, rather than the water rushing off the land very quickly.
@@beatriceludwig6002 ahhh right. the water spreads and soaks in rather than just washing away downstream. im looking at buying land, ill definitely being doing more research and implementing this. thanks for the quick reply beatrice
@@beatriceludwig6002 so if you dont have a creek or river running through your land, you could still achieve this by putting in a series of ponds maybe to replicate the storage area? im trying to do some research, just wondering about this point that was raised. ill try find something specific on this scenario. thanks
The north eastern states can't hog all the water from the south eastern states, but, slowing water travel down is different to dam building. Dams do not reduce evaporation the same way. Laws are usually about the dam building for water intensive agriculture. That's a perspective to come from if changing legislation. Otherwise Queensland can grow cotton and Victoria can't grow fruit.
I is a tragedy, that australians dont have more visionaries like him. Europeans intensive farm methods are completely inappropriate for arid countries and devastated australia or sahel land.
We have loads and loads of thinkers and doers like Peter Andrews......they just don't control the reins of power. I'm reading Charles Massy's 'Call of the Reed Warbler' and I recommend it to anyone wanting to understand these issues.
@@barrybr1 Sound interesting. Can you name some ot them ? In my country - SLovakia a friend of mr.Andrews is living. He has similar opinions of water management.
“ 40-50% of water that hits the ground during hot weather is lost through evaporation” - driving through Candelo and surrounds - observing farms sited along local rivers with super green lush fields - and in the middle of a hot 30* day - have their sprinklers on auto - how wasteful - how arrogant of we humans not to give this some thought. Seriously does everything need to be legislated / regulated and policed! Come on people - the time has come. OBSERVE - THINK - ACT
It's quite simple actually. Let me try. More vegetation and water retention in the landscape means more green, which also means a cooler landscape, like when the temperature drops if you enter a forrest. Also, wet and well hydrated trees and grass burn very slowly therefore making it difficult for fire to spread.
@@massimilianotosi7585 i couldnt put to words what i was thinking. Im already sure what you said is true. I mean whats being done about. In another video they were having troubles with the government. There are other videos on this idea. One was irigating the Sahara Desert. Whats happening to the land is called desertification. ua-cam.com/video/vpTHi7O66pI/v-deo.html
This is Aussie Farming. SOME POINTS He does Not Say what Sort of Farming this Works with. He does Not Say if You can Drink the Water or If there are Fish in the Water. Also as We Know with Cubby Station the More River/Creek Water One Farm Keeps the Less there is for Down Stream Farms. Since this Video the Amazon has come under Huge Pressure from People wanting to Farm. Australia Currently has a Production Forestry Shortage. Australia Continues to have a Water Shortage. New Large Scale Science Methods of Food Production Still Don't Exist. Fossil Fuel Based Transport Remains the Largest Farm Activity. Interesting Topic.
it wouldn;t wash into the sea if you didn't have soil erosion. If you get rid of soil erosion by planting properly, you will have less flowing into the sea. Thats why you see so much planting in the coastal regions.
Get Andrew Constance onto it Peter. He’s all banging on about the environment after these fires. Maybe he can put his money where his mouth is and support something that actually does well for the environment and can help counteract “climate change”
‘Australian of the Year’ for this man at the very least 🇦🇺 and the State and Federal Govt’s should financially support programs working in conjunction with Private enterprise to adopts Peter’s work ..
Wetland systems are the cornerstone of river ecosystem function and health. The Europeans took the beavers out of the system and drained the wetlands for agriculture and peat moss. The flood and drought scenarios still plague Europe. This approach is not unique to Australia, it's pretty universal. Healthy water courses should flood as many times as possible from the top of the watershed to release energy and deposit sediments in the floodplain.
My understand of the concept is every cycle of water through the tree will create more green matters and better soil health there and surround. The farmer will make money from just long term soil improvement and more water resources (therefore extending production life of the farm) alone. Grazing is likely possible but need manage well and not over do it?
You just don't graze in and around the waterway. The damming rehydrates the aquifer spreads the water through the landscape and makes the surrounding fields more lush.
@@Cc-zd3gg correct I'm not sure what i was thinking, he says 80-90% of nutrients are lost by erosion so giving up this land so will capture the nutrients and if returned will pay itself off
The cowboy beauracrates are not equipped with an ounce of common sense. Peter, you have way too much logic for any govt that is in power. Look at your proof. We should still have water movement even in the hotter months of our year. I remember a creek in Melrose SA that would flow in summer and yabbies available in that creek. Unfortunately, that creek is now dry.
Because its illegal to stop or hinder water flow in australia, learn THE law, not YOUR law beliefs. It can be done without blocking water flow. But nooooo. Can i pick something illegal to do? No. So you cant either
Did you even understand what he’s getting at? Those laws need to be changed. If nothing is done and things continue the way they are, the land will just continue to become more and more degraded, making is completely useless and unproductive for farming or grazing. Law makers are not all knowing beings and many laws were made when humankind didn’t know any better. If nobody advocates for change then how will we ever right what is obviously wrong?
This guy is amazing, if only more would listen to him
Peter Andrews and Joel Salatin true heroes for planet Earth!🤗
So are Yacouba Sawadogo and Allan Savory and many others.
Amen to the promotion of Men like them to positions of authority. That would be a great prayer!
Deserves 1 million views.
Deserves 7 billion views!
God Bless Peter and any like him, who devote, devoted their lives, their time in their lives!!! Thank goodness to God for such individuals as not all individuals are liken to them. 'Harvest plenty, laborers few'. The earth needs beautiful hearts of people to help ensure its beauty and care.
SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED MR ANDREWS WAS NOT EMBRACED BY GOVERNMENT YEARS AGO! HE HAS PROVEN HIS KNOWLEDGE, WHICH COULD RETURN MUCH OF THE DRY, DUST, RUINED AREAS OF THIS LAND BACK TO GREEN, WATERED, AND, PRODUCTIVE PLACES. WHAT A GIFT FOR FARMERS! LOVE HIM!
We never know what we have.. we learn from our mistakes
It’s not in the government’s interest when they look at the initial cost.
Been going through Peter’s various clips and every clip teaching crucial knowledge. He is a genius! I cant wait to get my hand on his books!
Did you end up finding any of his books? I'm going to start researching to find them.
Wonderful. Any proven solution in these difficult times should be supported in every possible way!
his an amazing guy, I wish we can distribute his work australia wide and bring this to peoples attention, his so right with whats happening in our rural areas and our drought problems.
Thank you very much for all your hard work. I am very grateful.
A good mulch farming system example is Paul Gaultachi "Back to Eden". And also the Documentary on Black Indian Earth"Terra Preta" on how Amazonian Indian Ancestors farmed prior to white man is Fantastic and the principles of Peter Andrews.
Yes agree, it's about farming according to that particular country. Peter got much of his knowledge from growing up with aboriginal people in Australia who lived with the land. Using techniques that come from Europe just aren't appropriate to Australia's environment.
Wonderful man with amazing but logical story to tell. Peter is a true national treasure and his techniques need to be applied broadly across this nation.
This is amazing Peter Andrew's a gift to the planet
Makes so much sense. Desert rain evaporates into atmosphere.🤔 Plants hold the moisture in the soil.🤔
Brilliant work Peter Andrews. Keep on going. Ultimately, it will be the tide of public opinion that perpetuates real change at government level. As long as people like Peter, and the many others around Australia and the world, keep pushing and demonstrating these environmental recovery type projects, more people will get on board and greater general public awareness will result.
Common sense and clarity in explaining the obvious, it hurts to know how right Peter is on these critical ideas. God Bless you and those who seek the healing of our dear and beloved Planet.
Much respect for this man and the other men who are doing the same this needs to happen World Wide God bless him for respecting nature and not working against it but with it
Fantastic interview God Bless you
In slowing down the flow of water he has created a carbon sink, sequestering tonnes of carbon into the ground and drought proofed the property. This property is now a natural fire break and infinitely more fertile and profitable.
Anyone interested in sustainable / regenerative farming in Australia should read Charles Massy's "Call of the Reed Warbler" and Bruce Pascoe's " Dark Emu"
How would Bruce Pascoe's fairytale have anything to do with regenerative farming?
Great man . should be leader of this great nation
just brilliant - many thx! "clarify the stupidity".....has he written a book?
"Back from the Brink"
and "Beyond the brink"
I hope the people at Cerro Gordo in California try to achieve what was done here. It would save Cerro Gordo, and possibly the valey below, which used to have a lake!
Shaun Overton has teamed up with Brent to do this very thing ua-cam.com/video/iz8hUETCDAo/v-deo.htmlsi=L6fNU4ZnYe1zWqS9
The proof, as it’s said, is in the pudding. What he did with his land is astounding. It’s mind boggling that the world isn’t flocking to the way he did it.
I lived on molokaii for a couple of years in an isolated valley were nobody lived but then i met a local hawaiian who knew a lot about that valley and said over three thousand people lived there up to about 100 years ago and grew a lot of taro and he showed me how they made terraces and planted taro and they kept the water from about 10 waterfalls up high as long as possible to water the taro and they had a whole productive system going and the old terraces were still there but totally overgrown and the valley was full of beautiful guava trees and one of the biggest mango tree i had ever seen no fruit on it probably about 150 to 200 years old but what the hawaiians did in that valley was amazing by keeping the water as high up the slopes and as long as they could and tin miners the same i live in an old tin mining area and the miners used gravity too digging races on slopes gradually bringing it down to a whole new area so there are a lot of swales in this country too thanks for all the info you are teaching lots of people i saw your first program on land line quiet a few years ago and often wondered what happened to you glad you are still teaching and that your health is okay i think john anderson introduced you to land line i think he has a very interesting podcast and wellworth listening to 🥰🌺🤗🌈😀❤️
He's right about the cattle dunging and trampling more than half of the plants but if they are moved onto mature plants that he's describing for short periods that dunging and trampling is what preserves the water retaining function while introducing fertility that plants alone can't provide.
Native animals were better due to being soft-footed. But I don't quite see that happening on these farms.
Peter explains the ecology in round about ways. He would benefit by reducing the message to a couple paragraphs such as : slow the water in the channels, then plants will grow and add tilth / top soil that acts like a sponge much better than the eroded subsoil. Spread that soil higher in the watershed so it will act as a larger sponge and slowly release much more water into a positive feed back loop that will bring the land to health via the enhanced soil storing much more water than the current scenarios of depleted soil. I do think he would give grazers/ cattle more credit if their grazing was managed in rotation such as Allan Savory encourages. That gets the cattle themselves to passively move soil uphill.
Peter has such a great understanding of the environment. He cant be ignored. Farmers should follow his ideas and ignore the water authority rules. Trying to deal with useless Bureaucrats is worse than a Nuclear bomb.
Same principle as Gabe Brown uses and endorses with continuos no-till cover cropping using multiple species.
Peter love your ethics and knowledge, Alan Savory beleives mass grazing helps? what do you think
just for example, if im on say 100 acres and ive got this pond, creek setup how does that help the rest of my 100 acres hold water? im missing something here but very interested in peters work and that of tony coote etc. ive seen how green parcels of land are from peters work, just dont understand how the small creek/pond setup helps the rest of the property. any advice or resources explaining this would be great thanks all
G'day Murf, it's like putting a plug back in the sink, to reconnect the flood plane to the creek/ pond. In a big rain event, the flood plane can be recharged, rather than the water rushing off the land very quickly.
@@beatriceludwig6002 ahhh right. the water spreads and soaks in rather than just washing away downstream. im looking at buying land, ill definitely being doing more research and implementing this. thanks for the quick reply beatrice
@@beatriceludwig6002 so if you dont have a creek or river running through your land, you could still achieve this by putting in a series of ponds maybe to replicate the storage area? im trying to do some research, just wondering about this point that was raised. ill try find something specific on this scenario. thanks
amazing
🙌🏼genius🙌🏼
I wouldn't brag on having a UN endorsement. His work speaks for itself and requires real endorsements.
The north eastern states can't hog all the water from the south eastern states, but, slowing water travel down is different to dam building. Dams do not reduce evaporation the same way. Laws are usually about the dam building for water intensive agriculture. That's a perspective to come from if changing legislation. Otherwise Queensland can grow cotton and Victoria can't grow fruit.
Sad thing is our top soil is even graded away in subdivisions before houses are built on them.
Would this work on desert like landscapes ? Is anyone aware of this type of work outside of Australia?
China's doing it, Egypt too. UA-cam it😉
ua-cam.com/video/vpTHi7O66pI/v-deo.html
Australia is lucky to have people like him but it's disheartening to hear that the system is so resistant to the environmental improvements.
I is a tragedy, that australians dont have more visionaries like him. Europeans intensive farm methods are completely inappropriate for arid countries and devastated australia or sahel land.
We have loads and loads of thinkers and doers like Peter Andrews......they just don't control the reins of power. I'm reading Charles Massy's 'Call of the Reed Warbler' and I recommend it to anyone wanting to understand these issues.
@@barrybr1 Sound interesting. Can you name some ot them ? In my country - SLovakia a friend of mr.Andrews is living. He has similar opinions of water management.
Peter Andrews for Prime Minister!!!!
“ 40-50% of water that hits the ground during hot weather is lost through evaporation” - driving through Candelo and surrounds - observing farms sited along local rivers with super green lush fields - and in the middle of a hot 30* day - have their sprinklers on auto - how wasteful - how arrogant of we humans not to give this some thought. Seriously does everything need to be legislated / regulated and policed! Come on people - the time has come. OBSERVE - THINK - ACT
they need a proper UA-cam channel.
im wanting to know how this on a mass scale would effect all those fires in Australia
It's quite simple actually. Let me try. More vegetation and water retention in the landscape means more green, which also means a cooler landscape, like when the temperature drops if you enter a forrest. Also, wet and well hydrated trees and grass burn very slowly therefore making it difficult for fire to spread.
@@massimilianotosi7585 i couldnt put to words what i was thinking. Im already sure what you said is true. I mean whats being done about. In another video they were having troubles with the government. There are other videos on this idea. One was irigating the Sahara Desert. Whats happening to the land is called desertification.
ua-cam.com/video/vpTHi7O66pI/v-deo.html
Fire is also a part of nature. Part of the problem was prevention of fires and the build up of organic material.
Cool weather burn offs combined with moist soil would lead to less harm due to fire, provided they are far enough spaced out.
Great 1000 like
This is Aussie Farming.
SOME POINTS
He does Not Say what Sort of Farming this Works with.
He does Not Say if You can Drink the Water or If there are Fish in the Water.
Also as We Know with Cubby Station the More River/Creek Water One Farm Keeps the Less there is for Down Stream Farms.
Since this Video the Amazon has come under Huge Pressure from People wanting to Farm.
Australia Currently has a Production Forestry Shortage.
Australia Continues to have a Water Shortage.
New Large Scale Science Methods of Food Production Still Don't Exist.
Fossil Fuel Based Transport Remains the Largest Farm Activity.
Interesting Topic.
Illegal to save Australia from washing into the sea?
it wouldn;t wash into the sea if you didn't have soil erosion. If you get rid of soil erosion by planting properly, you will have less flowing into the sea. Thats why you see so much planting in the coastal regions.
Get Andrew Constance onto it Peter. He’s all banging on about the environment after these fires. Maybe he can put his money where his mouth is and support something that actually does well for the environment and can help counteract “climate change”
12:13 - "what we are looking at is an illegal structure" 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😖
Stop saying "THE Government". Say, "OUR Government." Take ownership. Our government, our rules.
Simply Human thats like him saying hes someones bitch, hes not, like saying our bosses, the bosses
‘Australian of the Year’ for this man at the very least 🇦🇺 and the State and Federal Govt’s should financially support programs working in conjunction with Private enterprise to adopts Peter’s work ..
I just can't believe how incredibly inefficient, ignorant and detrimental our current agricultural practices are!
Wetland systems are the cornerstone of river ecosystem function and health. The Europeans took the beavers out of the system and drained the wetlands for agriculture and peat moss. The flood and drought scenarios still plague Europe. This approach is not unique to Australia, it's pretty universal. Healthy water courses should flood as many times as possible from the top of the watershed to release energy and deposit sediments in the floodplain.
i think he skips around the topic a bit how exactly will farmers get their money back if they can't graze the land
He didn't say they can't graze- just comes down to managing, e.g.- on rotation
Have you seen the cows dying on dead land.....lateral thinking!
My understand of the concept is every cycle of water through the tree will create more green matters and better soil health there and surround. The farmer will make money from just long term soil improvement and more water resources (therefore extending production life of the farm) alone. Grazing is likely possible but need manage well and not over do it?
You just don't graze in and around the waterway. The damming rehydrates the aquifer spreads the water through the landscape and makes the surrounding fields more lush.
@@Cc-zd3gg correct I'm not sure what i was thinking, he says 80-90% of nutrients are lost by erosion so giving up this land so will capture the nutrients and if returned will pay itself off
The cowboy beauracrates are not equipped with an ounce of common sense. Peter, you have way too much logic for any govt that is in power. Look at your proof. We should still have water movement even in the hotter months of our year. I remember a creek in Melrose SA that would flow in summer and yabbies available in that creek. Unfortunately, that creek is now dry.
Because its illegal to stop or hinder water flow in australia, learn THE law, not YOUR law beliefs. It can be done without blocking water flow. But nooooo. Can i pick something illegal to do? No. So you cant either
Did you even understand what he’s getting at? Those laws need to be changed. If nothing is done and things continue the way they are, the land will just continue to become more and more degraded, making is completely useless and unproductive for farming or grazing. Law makers are not all knowing beings and many laws were made when humankind didn’t know any better. If nobody advocates for change then how will we ever right what is obviously wrong?
Climate change 🤔 or bad government policies 😂
Looks like the project is based on the Australian Peter Andrews Mulloon project (natural sequence farming)🦘🇦🇺