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Jillamatong

Locality: Braidwood, New South Wales

Phone: +61 438 648 468

Address: Cooma Rd 2622 Braidwood, NSW, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 Could farming with nature be Australia’s best chance at counteracting drought? This is how one sheep farmer revived his dust bowl property #AustralianStory ...| Full episode: Youtube: https://bit.ly/2HxGdY5 Iview: https://ab.co/3jbfxdQ

23.01.2022 Come down and see us, and some other local firies this Saturday morning at the Braidwood Markets. It’s time to prepare your Emergency Survival Kit for ...the bush fire season. Do you know what you’ll pack in your kit? #getreadyweekend The seven essential items to pack in your Survival Kit are; a portable battery-operated radio; a waterproof torch; spare batteries; a first aid kit with manual; woollen blankets; emergency contact numbers; drinking water. Add cash and credit cards; medications and toiletries; special requirements for children, the disabled or the elderly; a mobile phone and charger; important documents; and a change of clothes for everyone before you leave. Don’t forget to prepare for your pets too! Head over to myfireplan.com.au to learn more. https://www.myfireplan.com.au/lea/important-items-checklist

21.01.2022 DID YOU KNOW..... That the top 30 cm ( about 10 in ) of the worlds soil contains about twice as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. After oceans , soil is the largest natural #carbonsink, surpassing forest and other vegetation in its capacity to capture CO2 from the air.

21.01.2022 Every day you drink dinosaur pee. Mind. Blown.

21.01.2022 ORGANIC PASTURED CHICKEN FARM HIRING At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms we’re best known for our high quality, certified organic, pasture-raised eggs laid by free-r...anging hens. We pride ourselves on our biodynamic pastures and strive to produce nutrient dense food that is free from synthetic chemicals. Most of the work is outdoor collecting eggs, so we are looking for people with strong work ethics who loves being outdoors, not afraid of getting dirty, love animals and have a happy attitude. If you are interested and would like to know more please send your resume to [email protected] Looking forward to hear from you. Kind Regards, Maria Assistant Farm Manager See more

21.01.2022 These prayers hold together the ether of the earth. (Hamish)

19.01.2022 Somewhere in the previous weeks our town ran out of water, just like that and without fanfare, the way the household might run out of milk. Tankers started carting from out of town, and what we drank from the tap tasted like metal and dust

19.01.2022 ALLAN SAVORY is the guest presenter of this year’s 2020 Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture, to be held on Wednesday 16 September from 7.30 8.30pm eastern Australian time.

18.01.2022 Wow, this review was anonymous and I wish I could track them down to share my heartfelt thanks. Their words really moved me. They captured exactly what I only d...reamed of achieving. And it totally blows me away that someone would even take the time to write a review. It's nerve wracking rollercoaster writing a book, publishing and putting ideas out onto the world. Ideas that could well change, especially in a space like regenerative ag where we're all constantly learning and techniques are evolving. I'm still on the rollercoaster, and on low days where I question everything, words like this mean so much. - Nicole See more

17.01.2022 This will make you despair in you are a normal person caring about family and future. Without agriculture, we cannot have a church, orchestra, school, sports t...eam, university, army, government, town, city or ANY business. It is the foundation of civilization and all economies and is based on production from nature. Agriculture is not cropping production but is the production of food and fibre from the world’s land and waters and today almost the entire planet is engaged in agriculture with 6% of our planet's surface being cropland and about 94% of the surface fisheries, livestock, forestry and wildlife harvesting! Biodiversity, on which agriculture depends entirely, is being destroyed at an alarming rate by the same reductionist management that is the single cause of climate change now acknowledged by almost every scientist. While we as individuals can choose to change light bulbs, management at large scale is conducted through government policies, laws, regulations, taxation, subsidies, research and extension all determined by lobbying and funding by environmentally illiterate corporate boards and academics. Agriculture in a scientific ecologically literate world would be based on the biological sciences. Corporations, governments (political parties), universities and large environmental organizations base policy on chemistry and marketing of technology. Yes, I include the large environmental organizations, because the worst loss of biodiversity around where I live in Zimbabwe is to be seen in some thirty national parks subject to government policies they support. Agriculture today is the most destructive industry ever in history, more so than any mining or coal and oil. America home of most of this, like the rest of the world, is producing twenty times as much dead eroding soil every year as food we need to feed every human on earth today! If enough of you Americans reading this care at all about the future of your families and all life perhaps you will overcome your apathy. Do not just like this but share, share, share and insist on at least a Congressional Enquiry during the new presidency whether republican or democrat because preventing failure of city-based civilization and many higher life forms is far above politics, corporate greed or academic egos. Holistically managed truly regenerative fisheries, forestry, livestock and wildlife management as well as cropping practices ensuring polycultures and permanently covered soil are not optional, but vital if civilization is to survive. We simply cannot allow regenerative agriculture to be highjacked by well-meaning but environmentally illiterate people and corporate boards and political acquiescence.

17.01.2022 Not all EGGS are created EQUAL! At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, our eggs are accredited as 'True Free Range' with Humane Choice True Free Range and Certified Or...ganic and Biodynamic with Australian Organic. They are possibly the healthiest food on the planet! Find out where you can buy our eggs here: https://www.mcnf.com.au/our-eggs

16.01.2022 The legend Hamish Mackay has hit the airwaves on episode 21 of The Regenerative Journey podcast.....a Biodynamics practitioner and educator for over 45 years we... talk about his early years, diving into Biodynamics, and it’s importance as a positive and effective method to produce not just nutritious food but also build resilience and health in landscapes and communities. Don’t resist the urge to share with a buddy...and please rate, review and subscribe....links to the show in profile. #regenerativeagriculture #biodynamic #organic #thankful4farmers #soilhealth #soulhealth #farmlife #australia #sustainable #biodiversity #whosyourfarmer #education #farming #grassfed #beef #lamb #pork #boorowa #education #legacy #paddockbetweenourears #theregenerativejourney #podcast

16.01.2022 https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

15.01.2022 Mummy down time

14.01.2022 https://static1.squarespace.com//Scienfic_Compendium_25Feb

13.01.2022 At Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, our profits help fund the landscape rehydration and regenerative agriculture work of The Mulloon Institute.

13.01.2022 NOW HIRING - LANDSCAPE PLANNER Do you know someone who wants to make a change in 2021? We're seeking a Landscape Planner who shares our passion to influence ch...ange in regenerative, environmental and agricultural practices and brings with them great technical and consulting skills. Must thrive working in rural locations! Please apply online via NRM Jobs: https://nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2020/20006860/landscape-planner Closes: Sunday 13 December 2020. #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #RehydrateAustralia #regenerativeag #landscapeplanner

12.01.2022 Still time to register for the @acresusa 2020 conference. Catch some of the most cutting edge conversations in the world of #regenerativeagriculture My slot i...s on the 3rd of Dec, we'll be digging into the ways plants and microbes communicate and how we can sort and influence epigenetic expression, honestly, it'll be more fun than it sounds! And I've got a bomb shell to reveal! See more

12.01.2022 I live out of town... never tasted the truck water... Yolande describes its taste..

12.01.2022 On 9th August 2020, the big flood come to Mulloon! Not since 1974 had Mulloon seen such an event. Back then, the power of the flood caused untold erosion, chewe...d out the banks and changed the course of the creek. This time however, it was a vastly different story, with recent creek works quietening the angry flood. For 36 hours the floodwaters spread across the floodplain filtering the still substantial sediment load from the December 2019 fires and recharging the floodplain aquifer. All while the very freshly installed leaky weir structures held together as 160 cubic metres of water per second pulsed through the system. [Guitar: performed by Peter Hazell, Coordinator of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative]

11.01.2022 https://www.theguardian.com//english-pastoral-by-james-reb

10.01.2022 Black Beauty . The Angus herd at Jillamatong in Braidwood have regenerative farmer Martin Royds to thank for their good looks. Years of education and hard w...ork have led to a healthy soil profile that produces nutritious and medicinal plants for his livestock to graze on, leaving behind spraying and drenching practices. . There's more fascinating science to learn in our spring issue out now. . : Jake Lindsay . . #regionallifestylemagazine #regionallifestyle #rlm #countrymagazine #regionalaustralia #regionalnsw #regenerativefarming #anguscattle #blackangus #jillamatong #braidwood #braidwoodnsw Visit Queanbeyan Palerang See more

09.01.2022 A few years ago, I cycled from Brussels to Normandy, and went through the Artois region of northern France. Deep, rich soils, so productive that every single tr...ee or shrub has been ripped out for many miles. An agricultural system so industrialised and so highly "performing" that on average, it only takes one worker per 600 acres to run it. And scattered across these endless fields, dead villages, with shuttered churches, shops, cafés and schools. No children. No families. Only old men, alone in their farms. The best way of meeting them is to set up your tent on a freshly harvested wheat field (the straw makes great bedding); the farmer will turn up 20 minutes later. Uncork a bottle of red wine (this is France, after all) and the talk will soon flow. What you will hear is a report from hell. The kids run off as soon as they can, because they cannot find a husband or a wife willing to build a life in this emptiness. So, often, have the wives. The loneliness drives them away. The birds have gone. The insects have gone. There is nothing left but endless fields of monocrops, without a hedge in sight. The system requires frequent spraying, seemingly of every toxic molecule known to man. The stories are of friends consequently cut, in their prime, by cancer. Of centuries-old family farms that will soon be taken over by a giant, faceless corporation because the kids don't want it. Of old habits of managing the landscape, eviscerated by industrialisation. What really stuck with me is the bitterness that gnaws at their guts from the knowledge they have wasted their lives, that they have been taken for a ride by everybody from the government to industry, all pushing the mantra of efficiency, of bigger, better, more mechanised; only to see, as they enter their twilight years, the death throes of their village, their culture, their family and their health. There is only one word to describe industrial agriculture. Evil.

08.01.2022 St Bedes came to visit. What a great bunch of people! We started at the worm farm!

07.01.2022 What's the potential for your land? Time to get C back where it belongs! As for the term Rastafarian to describe dreadlocked roots, I have taken the feedback and will keep using it!

06.01.2022 Vegetation is King in Achieving Full Environmental Health A picture that tells a 1000 words. Traditional agricultural methods using cattle, sheep and crops ten...d to strip vegetation so there’s nothing left but bare earth. This leads to a high amount of surface water run off so the water is lost and not captured in the soil. It leads to loss of topsoil which is where the majority of nutrients and food growing potential is kept. From there it leads to erosion and dirty water that silts up creeks, damages the Great Barrier Reef and does detrimental harm to our aquatic ecosystems. It all starts with soil and the decisions we make on the ground to protect the vegetation. Cattle Graziers, crop farmers and construction developers should be aiming for 100% vegetation coverage on the soil they are responsible for. You can do this through regenerative practises, that aim to restore ecosystems to full health. Better planned grazing, selling cattle at the right time, cover crops and implementing effective erosion and sediment controls. This leads to more carbon in the soil and a higher water holding capacity (with every time 1% of carbon increases in soil it can hold up to 144,000 litres per hectare). The higher the vegetation coverage, the less water runs off and is wasted, leading to drought resilience. Nutrient cycling will function more effectively, leading to a higher crop yield and animal carrying capacity. Wonders of the aquatic under water world such as the Great Barrier Reef will be healthy from improved water quality and less sedimentation and nutrient run off (vegetation acts as a water filter). Farmers will need less chemicals and fertilisers to grow food as the soil will need less inputs because it will be functioning as it’s meant to. Look after your soil, and in turn it will look after the whole world.

06.01.2022 SOME OF THE MANY BENEFITS OF NATIVE GRASSES A powerhouse in restoring soil eco-systems. Perfectly suited to the environment having evolved there, native grasses... ensure the eco-system can thrive with very little inputs. They can also possess the resilience to harsher conditions, along with being a fantastic, nutritious grazing option for our livestock! To learn more about the native grass seed available visit - https://www.smartsoil.com.au/native-seed

05.01.2022 Gorse (Ulex europaeus) Ever wondered what medicinal use gorse might have alongside being an amazing nursery crop for native plants? Perhaps Gorses time has come..., to really shine as a plant medicine, to bring ease and support for all the changes that 2020 is throwing our way....gorse does has some amazing medicinal uses, primarily in the form of a flower essence. As a Flower essence gorse is indicated: for very great hopelessness (Weeks and Bullen, 1964, p. 16). It helps you to recover confidence in your own potential, to believe in your own power and strength. In this post I will explain a bit about the history of flower essences/ Bach flower remedies/vibrational medicine, a slightly more esoteric side of herbalism. I have always wondered about the medicinal properties of gorse. My partners parents lived at the base of Hinewai reserve on Banks Peninsula for 25 odd years, a gorse covered valley that has been left to regenerate under the wisdom of Hugh Wilson, a well known botanist and environmental champion, Hinewai shows a way of habitat restoration that requires minimal human intervention, it highlights how when gorse is left to grow, natives will slowly push through at their own pace and eventually outgrow the gorse, shade the gorse, and eventually a new native forest will emerge. ., no human replanting, nature doing it's thing, native seeds dispersed by birds, wind, it is an inspirational example of native forest restoration. Being surrounded by gorse at Hinewai I became inspired to learn more about the medicinal potential of gorse flower, I had heard of people making gorse flower wine, using gorse flowers as a gentle remedy for constipation. I embraced gorse flowers as a herbal tea remedy, to ease anxiety and to nourish the nerves, alongside more common nervine plants like oatstraw, St John’s Wort and Borage flowers. At a book shop on the West Coast of the South Island a few months ago a book jumped out at me, reminding me of the power of flower essence. The book was written in 1964 and had the whole range of 38 flower essence remedies put forth by Dr Edward Bach. It was a message to remember flower essences, a skill I had learnt in Golden Bay, as a twenty-year-old, when I was working on an organic farm with a woman that had the most amazing garden and taught me so much about living simply, about alternative approaches to health. Penny use to create a wide range of flower essences and share these remedies with people in her community... the making, was like a sacred act...a pyramid like structure was purposely built to charge the sun infused flower essence, eccentric characters would arrive on the day of preperation...I loved that time hanging out in Golden Bay with Penny, being taught other ways of being in the world and learning a more magical side of plant medicine. Gorse is a fantastic remedy to try if you feel overwhelmed, if you always think things will turn out badly, if you suffer from depression, lack hope. Gorse flower is bright, joyous, strong... preparing a flower essence correctly captures these properties. So who was Dr. Edward Bach (1886-1936), and why did he believe in the power of flower essence? He was a medical doctor that came to the conclusion that sickness and disease were not primarily due to physical causes, but to some deeper disharmony within the suffer themselves. He believed that distress of the mind, such as fear, worry, over anxiety, impatience depletes vitality, he assumed that certain negative emotional states can have a detrimental effect on our bodily well-being. Thus, rather than directly relieving a physical dysfunction, he advocated the restoration of a psychological balance based on the use of 38 different flowers, flowers that he beleived, through intense study to have harmonizing effects and gives a person positive strength. I am definitely with him here, that disease can be a product of disharmonySo I have been getting back into making plant medicine in the flower essence way If anyone is interested in learning how to make flower essence or purchasing mindfully crafted flower essences drop me a line! I have a few workshops coming up too, slowly emerging from my own introverted covid hibernation! Spring is arising! Get out there... and pick some gorse, embrace the sun!

05.01.2022 Introducing Food2soil Di-char our unique blend of microbial enriched goodies, great for a annual or seasonal soil booster. This stuff is seriously tactile, fluf...fy sand for soil lovers #dicharisthenewbestthing #food2soil#f2s#kombuchaforsoil#foodwaste#organicwaste#foodwasteprocessing#naturalfertiliser#soilhealth#healthysoil#soildiversity#soilregeneration#commercialfoodwaste#soilconditioner#organicsrecycling#biostimulants#livingsoil#somanyhashtags See more

05.01.2022 Gravel for the roads and crossings at Mulloon.

05.01.2022 "The evidence is mounting that regenerative agriculture is one of the great stories of hope....[It] has some of the best solutions to solving a lot of our plane...tary ills." Charles Massy runs a 4,500-acre sheep and cattle property at Cooma. "I caused immense damage to this country, perhaps at least a few thousand years' worth," he told Australian Story. He knew that to survive he would have to change. He sold only half the farm and began studying regenerative agriculture, a system of farming which doesn't push the land beyond what it is naturally capable of sustaining without chemical inputs, a system that values a complex and healthy soil. As he watched his land recover, he went back to university in his 50s to do a PhD in human ecology. As part of his thesis, he interviewed 80 of the top regenerative farmers, hearing stories of remarkable turnarounds in landscapes, birdsong and lives. By 2000, Mr Massy himself had become fully regenerative and has now planted 60,000 trees. More on this story tonight on Australian Story, 8:00pm (AEST) ABC TV + iview. https://www.abc.net.au//charlie-massy-regenerativ/12438352

03.01.2022 #WSD is around the corner, have you registered? On this day, the world celebrates our #soil and the #SoilBiodiversity beneath our feet. Remember to share the... webinar link with your network! The invitation is open to all interested to participate. https://bit.ly/3q8gZkP

03.01.2022 Minister Littleproud announcing funding for a national soil strategy to serve the needs of farmers and acknowledging the crucial role of Maj Gen Michael Jeffery.

02.01.2022 Building the Moyie Flume over a deep gully near Moyie, BC in 1921. BC Archives.

01.01.2022 Three of the four farmers on the panel today ACT Landcare and Waterwatch - Resilient Farming are farmers trained in Holistic Management.

01.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au/austory/