Ayton Farm in Rathdowney, Queensland | Farm

Ayton Farm

Locality: Rathdowney, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5463 6115

Address: 1 Johnson Road 4287 Rathdowney, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.aytonfarm.com.au

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23.01.2022 Straight from the horse’s mouth-26 mm over the last three days. Steady, wonderful rain. This lifts our rolling rainfall total for the last 12 months to 82% of our average annual rainfall, which is a good indicator of subsoil moisture. #aytonfarm #scenicrim #regenerativeagriculture

22.01.2022 This interview of Dr Terry McCosker by John Anderson (YouTube link below) is an excellent explanation of the macro issues in relation to carbon in the atmosphere and a very well explained concept of how regenerative agriculture can do enormous things for climate change, food security and water security. We highly recommend watching the interview. Dr. Terry McCosker | Environment Matters | Regenerative Agriculture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UWS9T9X3RY ... #regenerativeagriculture #scenicrim #aytonfarm #regenerativefarming

21.01.2022 We visited my brother at Thargomindah last week and the wildflowers were spectacular!

19.01.2022 Good information here

19.01.2022 4 years ago Jan, a Permaculture Design Certificate- qualified helper expanded our tiny fruit tree orchard to include vegetable beds. Last year our nephew Will resuscitated and expanded the garden for us. Currently Sophie and Mic, similarly qualified, are doing a fantastic job finalising 80m x 1.6m of extra garden beds, 95 mixed fruit trees including 14 avocados, about 100 other trees and nitrogen- fixing plants and a timed watering system for all of that. Photos of the new area to come in future posts. #aytonfarm #scenicrim #regenerativeagriculture #permaculture #foodforest

19.01.2022 Our fabulous, reliable, robust old Cummins diesel motor and pump is leaving this week for a new home near Kyogle. We very much wish to re-hydrate our floodplain and restore the ecosystem the way it has been done @themullooninstitute in the Peter Andrews @naturalsequencefarming @tarwynparktraining style. Peter has been to our farm and advised us to rehydrate the floodplain as the primary landscape restoration initiative. Given that putting leaky weirs in the creek is not leg...al we can’t do it in the appropriate manner, but we have carried out a lot of his other recommendations. The best solution for rehydrating the floodplain that we can currently come up with was that we have installed a 29 kW solar array and an electric motor and pump so that we can heavily irrigate our floodplain through in-ground mains, thus keeping it hydrated to a degree. We couldn’t do that with the diesel motor because diesel is too expensive and we were not keen to burn fossil fuels to do it. The electric solution is a lot more economical and environmentally friendly, albeit requiring a significant capital investment. We look forward to the day when governments will realise that the Peter Andrews /natural sequence farming recommendations about rehydration of landscape are highly beneficial- and laws change to facilitate and encourage that activity instead of preventing it. Back to our diesel motor: It has given good service and I’m sure will do a great job on another farm where electricity was not an option. @ Ayton Farm

18.01.2022 In the past six months we have planted 140 Leptospermum trees and 90 other native trees in these two adjoining areas below the contour bank. We will try to remember to post photos comparing their progress with these at the start shots at a later time. Leptospermum trees are the food source for bees in making manuka honey. Due to the good rain we have had this calendar year and our very light stocking rate, the trees are currently hiding in the grass. This slope used to b...e fairly bare but we preserved ground cover on it before the rain came in nice steady falls. Additionally the contour bank assists very significantly with hydrating the ground below it. Our thanks to our family members and our helpx backpackers for their assistance with this project. #scenicrim #aytonfarm #naturalsequencefarming #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #pasturefedandfinishedbeef #scenicrimeatlocalweek @ Ayton Farm See more

17.01.2022 There are times when you have to make your own rainbows! #aytonfarm #scenicrim #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming

14.01.2022 Peko our horse is taking very seriously his job in retirement: keeping our mowed areas around the house trimmed up and neat, while maintaining appropriate social distancing! Strange that he forgets his social distancing when you have some lucern chaff in hand. #aytonfarm #scenicrim @ Ayton Farm

12.01.2022 For those who are interested in our new food forest and expanded vegetable garden: on the right hand side of the first photo you see our existing fruit trees and vegetable gardens. Then there is a photo of the new 4 x 20 meter long vegetable gardens followed by photos of new fruit and nut trees. The trees on mounds are avocado trees. #aytonfarm #scenicrim #foodforest #permaculture #avocadon #biodynamic

11.01.2022 Our Lucas Sawmill got an outing this weekend thanks to a visit from Scott. We got so busy that it has been neglected, but it really is a pleasure to work with. #aytonfarm #scenicrim

11.01.2022 A grooming from Mum- this year’s first Brahman calf, borne 1 August #scenicrim #aytonfarm @ Ayton Farm

10.01.2022 This is a good summary explanation

09.01.2022 Today our laying hens are enjoying the job of cleaning up the parasites under three big Gumtrees where the cattle love to camp. . Not a bad spot for a Mother’s Day picnic lunch supplied by Summerland Camel Farm! . Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers, including my mother, who qualifies in all three categories! #aytonfarm #scenicrim #biodynamicfarming #pasturefedandfinishedbeef #regenerativefarming #regenerativeagriculture @ Ayton Farm

08.01.2022 Ayton Farm is the coloured dot at the bottom of this radar screenshot. The wonderful sound of rain on a tin roof! #aytonfarm #scenicrim @ Ayton Farm

07.01.2022 We have received 33 mils of soaking rain over the last three days for which we are very grateful! #aytonfarm #scenicrim @ Ayton Farm

06.01.2022 May 30 is world biodynamic day. If you go to yesterday’s Instagram post by daily_ climate_regen you can see a very good explanation on the use of preparation 500. #aytonfarm #scenicrim #biodynamicagriculture

05.01.2022 If you can make the time to listen to this podcast you will gain insights into the effects of the foods you eat on your health and also understand why we don’t use chemicals on our landscape or our livestock. It also outlines how the use of chemicals in agriculture actually started, which I found interesting. I might also add that what is being said here is in accordance with health advice we have received from very knowledgeable alternative health practitioners. (We have acted on that advice with extremely beneficial results.) Enjoy:

05.01.2022 REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE can repair the water cycle. Agriculture has been damaging the water cycle for thousands of years.... but we do have a solution. The b...roken water cycle is not new. I love this quote. Plato wrote the following about his beloved Greece in 400 BC: What remains of our once rich land is like the body of a sick man, with the fat and soft earth having wasted away and only the bare skeleton remaining. Years ago, many of the mountains were arable. The valleys that were full of rich soil are now marshes. Hills that were once covered with forests and produced abundant pasture now produce only food for bees. Once the land was enriched by annual rains, which were not lost as they are now, by flowing from the bare land into the sea. Once the soil was deep, it absorbed and kept the water, and this water soaked into the hills and fed springs and running streams everywhere. Now abandoned shrines at these dried up springs attest that our description of the land is true. Plato (427 - 347 BC) What is regenerative agriculture? The primary focus is to take carbon out of the air and store it in the soil. This improves water holding capacity, reduces runoff and slows evaporation. If we can manage the land regeneratively both in the cattle industry and in the grain industry, we can actually change the weather. Less runoff will cause less flooding. Less evaporation will create fewer heavy storms. More water-holding capacity could mean fewer fires. If you think about climate, the water cycle has a huge role to play in it. Together, we can actually manage rainfall. With that in mind, no one else on the planet has as much ability to manage (or mismanage) the water cycle as farmers do. We just need to switch over to regenerative management. God bless Steve Kenyon Greener Pastures Ranching

03.01.2022 If you heard loud cheering from Ayton Farm this week it is because we have got our biodynamic stirrer, levelled it on a platform out of reach of curious livestock and it is now operational! We have been waiting quite a while for this and are now waiting on the availability of the spray-out unit that will go in the back of our Polaris side by side. We are hoping that happens while moisture and warmth are still with us so that we can make a start on putting out biodynamic preparations before next spring.#aytonfarm #scenicrim #biodynamicfarming #regenerativefarming #regenerativeagriculture #pasturefedandfinished #pasturefedandfinishedbeef

02.01.2022 Tucking our bees in for the winter! #aytonfarm #scenicrim #flowhive @ Ayton Farm

02.01.2022 Gentle rain on the roof-a very welcome sight and sound! #scenicrim #aytonfarm #regenerativeagriculture

02.01.2022 What a welcome sight! Some beautiful steady drizzling rain up to 3 mils so far. #scenicrim #aytonfarm @ Ayton Farm

01.01.2022 This is quite a good explanation in relation to soils and what builds soil and sequesters carbon, for those who are interested to read it.