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ECOsustain.com.au

Locality: Capels Crossing, Victoria, Australia

Address: 88 Hemphil Road 3579 Capels Crossing, VIC, Australia

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

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24.01.2022 Excerpt: Today, corporations can buy water rights. Due to this, 70% of water allocations in the Murray-Darling Basin are owned by two corporations: Webster, and Ron and Peter Harris of Ravensworth Agriculture Company. Both companies are donors to the National Party. Peter Harris is currently in court for water theft, while Webster continues to sell water rights to the highest bidders. Lately, mines have been winning the bidding war over water licences. Temporary water prices... skyrocketed to $1000/megalitre (ML) at the end of October, far out of the reach of food producers. Australia's largest olive grower Rob McGavin has called for a temporary ban on water trading by businesses that do not use water to produce, saying urgent government intervention was required. "Dairy farmers can probably pay $200/ML before they're losing money and the best horticulture crops are around $650/ML there's a huge amount of despair and anxiety," McGavin told the ABC.

21.01.2022 Reassess Reevaluate and Restructure ... Reality has hit for more people than not Climate Change IS REAL! Let’s move forward with that knowledge and with the understanding that we CAN all contribute, making even small positive changes, toward #globalwellbeing.... During 2018 the effects of Climate Change and the choices being made by consumers and government agencies lead to a timely Reassessment, Reevaluation and Restructure here at Wyalong Farm, the home of ECOsustain. In 2019 - 2030 we're looking forward to continuing our focus on going back for the future with our Holistically Planned projects and sharing our journey with you. UN Environment news release ... "01 March 2019, New York The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, declared today by the UN General Assembly, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity. The degradation of land and marine ecosystems undermines the well-being of 3.2 billion people and costs about 10 per cent of the annual global gross product in loss of species and ecosystems services. Key ecosystems that deliver numerous services essential to food and agriculture, including supply of freshwater, protection against hazards and provision of habitat for species such as fish and pollinators, are declining rapidly."

20.01.2022 During Monday night’s Q&A, ‘Future Alert’, Anabelle asks (at 8:43), How does bringing food production back into urban areas help? Julian Cribb, the author of ...‘Surviving the 21st Century’ and Soils for Life board member, replied, Cities are throwing away vast quantities of nutrients and water. We’re throwing them in the ocean. If we recycle those things and use them over again, we can have a renewable food supply. Cities will grow a third of the world’s food in the future. We will grow one third on farms that are regenerative. Farms that regenerate the rural landscape in which they operate. We will probably produce a third of our food in the deep oceans. Follow the link to ‘Future Alert’ on iView here: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/qanda See more

08.01.2022 Well said ... now let us be the change!

08.01.2022 Title says it all ...

06.01.2022 Beryl survived against all odds Balootha Station's pet cow Beryl had a big fight on her hands to survive north west Queensland's flood disaster. She was ...in a paddock away from the homestead when a year's worth of rain fell in just 11 days. Cattle were "dropping like flies" and 90 per cent of the herd didn't survive, but miraculously Beryl managed to stay safe. She'd found a ridge of higher ground and was living off prickle bush. Despite losing the majority of their 4000 cattle, Sally and Jake said finding Beryl was "good for their soul". This is their message to everyone following the disaster: "As you go to bed, or as you wake hold your family a little tighter, feed your pets a little extra and smile at a complete stranger. Life could be so much worse. And please, buy Australian beef!" : @Beryl The Brahman

05.01.2022 Struggling here too and now our Barr Creek boundary is dry because no-one is irrigating ... at least we have the Loddon and a supply of feed but it's not cheap. [Photos not my goats - they're from WIndella Farm]

02.01.2022 This is what keeps me quiet lately ... difficult to say what’s happening here as I can’t be ‘polite’. It’s not just the pricing & politicians ... it’s also a complete lack of care for the environment by our water authority who engaged a Chinese Government controlled organisation to deliver its ‘modernisation’ project. Tears ....

02.01.2022 "This used to be called the fruit bowl. Now it's the dust bowl." The 'Big Cherry' farm in Wyuna has been forced to shut its doors and bulldoze its trees as a re...sult of rising water costs. Many farmers are worried about the region's future, with fears the high price of water is here to stay.

01.01.2022 Get on board for this FREE opportunity to learn. Maybe not so friendly for our time zone and I had to select foreign as my area but I think it’s going to be well worth it. Above ground diversity grows below ground diversity. This is such an important aspect of soil health.

01.01.2022 Find out about Biochar, Composting and other activities you can do toward #globalwellbeing. Meet Benjamin Cooper of Urban Habitats Central Victoria. Ben will be joining the Commoners Coop Saturday for their Biochar information session. I met Ben last Sat [with Costa Georgiadis] at PepperGreen Farm Recycle Reuse Restore Up-cycle Repurpose Market where he also works in Community Liaison. Since then he's become quite famous as "Bendigo's Costa" ... stay tuned for more about that day. :)