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Midwest Optimal Health

Locality: Dandaragan, Western Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 432 009 748

Address: golf drive. 6507 Dandaragan, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.neurotribe.com

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25.01.2022 Weeds - The Pioneer Plants Source: Red Diamond Compost Weeds are opportunistic, able to sprout up and grow quickly, even in bad weather conditions, often getti...ng a headstart on crops or flowers. . Weeds have been such a huge problem that theyve created the largest chemical warfare of our time. . The thing is, many weeds only grow on soils with something wrong with them, and they are many that have been identified as indicators of soil conditions. . Key thing to note is that synthetic chemicals, (pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc.) make soil conditions worse, resulting in more weeds and locks you in a destructive cycle. Both for the soil and your health. See more

25.01.2022 The blue is bloooooming !! Yep, it really is this blue . Super blue hue of Lechenaultia biloba, (Blue Leschenaultia). Its a good year for it on the gravelly-sand country in the Moore catchment

25.01.2022 This is encouraging news for regenerative farmers. The general public are looking for and valuing nutritionally produced food. Ian and Di Haggerty have been leading edge farmers in a biological farming system and it is great to know their wheat is now marketed direct to a baker in the city. The customers are loving the taste of the bread.

23.01.2022 Great post to define the role of plant healing and protecting soil.

23.01.2022 Thank you to Boomerang Bags for the hire of bunting for the Grow Dandaragan Way festival on Saturday. Jo was so generous with the bunting, that our Geraldton helpers, Bernie and Amanda, were able to wrap the church in colourful bunting. Plus we were gifted with a number of Boomerang Bags Geraldton, plus net vegie bags to hand out at Growers Market on Sunday.... The message from BBG is ,"So no to plastic". One stitch at a time. Their new target for number of bags made is Geraldtons post code - 6530. An amazing effort by a small group of creatively determined and extremely organised women. Thank you for your generous support.

22.01.2022 This is an excellent introduction into the conversation on regenerative agriculture by our West Midlands Group.

21.01.2022 Thank you Brain Training Australia for this description of burn out.

21.01.2022 Perfect weather for a fun and exciting day.

21.01.2022 If your passion aligns with your values, work is not a burden but exploration, learning and sheer joy. A pod cast worth listening to. It could change your life!

18.01.2022 All about rehydrating the landscape. We have a working model on our farm, created at start of year. While a low rainfall year, it has been interesting watching the system evolve, with pasture cover growing along the eroded section.

18.01.2022 The fixation on carbon capture solutions in the mainstream media ignores the water and hydration problems of drought conditions and expanding desertification wh...ich are feeding these fires. Carbon capture technology is a waste of money and planting trees only provides more fuel for fires if the root water and soil hydration issues are ignored... See more

18.01.2022 Both an inspiring and beautiful story on how to turn around desertification on our planet. Australia is a dry continent and knowledge and skills developed here in Australia are used in the projects. Water is the key and this system generates and creates moisture to restore the barren landscapes. Water is life.... The Shire of Dandaragan have created environmental grants for private landholders to explore improving the natural landscape. Our family received such a Grant for a demonstration rehydration landscape project on our property, "The Mount", Cataby Road, Dandaragan. Tim Wiley and Rod O'Bree designed and implimented the system, guiding our son, teaching him the necessary skills. It is a work in progress and we are enjoying the experience. This video covers in detail how rehydration of landscape is achieved and explains the simply science in how and why it works. Be sure to watch to the very end. Great wisdom, humanity and compassion are revealed. Enjoy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YBLZmwlPa8A

17.01.2022 One advantage that fungi have over bacteria is their (fungal hyphae) ability to grow in length. Unlike bacterial cells, whose world is a very finite one, fung...al hyphae can travel over space measure in feet or meters, distances that for a bacterium are truly epic and unlike bacteria, fungi do not need a film of water in order to spread throughout the soil. Fungal hyphae are able to bridge gaps and go short distances, which allows them to locate new food sources and transport nutrition from one location to the other.

17.01.2022 The high intelligence of food is expressed in the medicine in our food. However, the medicine in the food, interestingly, is not inherent to the plant itself. I...ts actually a relationship between the bacteria, the fungi, and the amazing mycorrhizae in the soil and the plant rootlets themselves that co-creates the alchemy of earths medicines. A great example is something like this lions mane mushroom. Lions mane mushrooms have medicinal qualities, but its not until you get to the mycelium, the root system of the lions mane, that you access the medicinal qualities that regrow the myelin sheath in your brain and peripheral nervous system. What an incredible neurologic regenerative capacity, not of the mushroom itself, but of its root system and interaction with its microbiome that creates high levels of medicine in the food. Herein exists a beautiful example of the connection between human health and soil health. Im compelled by a planet that would facilitate neurodegeneration in her most destructive of species, and that she would deliver this grace through her soils is particularly poetic. She is a patient mother full of grace for our collective abuse. Learn more about how regenerative agriculture is serving as the connecting force Farmers Footprint

17.01.2022 More information about rehydration of landscape.

16.01.2022 Charlie Maslin assumed management of Gunningrah in 1987, and realised while you cannot control rainfall, you can change how you use the rain you receive. The Ma...slins shifted their focus from animals to the health of the land by maximising rainfall retention and improving groundcover, and therefore delivering more consistent profits and reduced inputs. On a hot day, Charlie observed a difference in soil temperature between bare soil and groundcover- watch the video to see what Charlie found. See more

16.01.2022 Wise words from an elder and teacher.

16.01.2022 A timely reminder to all agricultural workers with hay cutting and harvest approaching. Inattention can cost a life. Plus a good nights sleep is safety insurance.

16.01.2022 The Boomerang Bags Team will be part of the Garage Sale Trail on the Saturday 21 November. Hop onto the trail and help reduce, reuse, up-cycle. Gift on some notions this festive season.

15.01.2022 September is Dementia Awareness month. Know that there is help available. For sufferers and their families and carers Alzheimers WA. Alzheimers is just one form of dementia but information is available on all forms. Be gentle with yourselves.

15.01.2022 This work supports all that maverick Australian scientists, working in the regenerative agricultural sector, have been telling us for some time. Living plants feed the soil health to build resilience and regenerate biomass allowing natural systems to do the work. As farmers, we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuel inputs and grow a more nutritional product while improving the health of our environment.

15.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. Its well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Lets start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom cant move if the victim doesnt move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (dont wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient cant walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Dont remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesnt change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we dont do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesnt matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite

13.01.2022 This cannot be shared too often Note: this is a picture of kernza, a newly developed perennial grain which has great potential to sequester carbon while growing... grain for bread and beer (!). Prairie grasses have similar deep root systems and also sequester carbon in the soil For more info about kernza, google The Land Institute. This is from their website Kernza Grain Kernza is the trademark name for the grain of an intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) being developed at The Land Institute. Today, this ecologically beneficial perennial grain has already made its way into the commercial supply chain in small niche markets. We’re working toward a future that includes multiple varieties of Kernza that are economical for farmers around the world to produce at large scale.

12.01.2022 An interesting podcast to listen to over weekend. Turning belief systems inside out and why we, as growers, need to ask the right questions.

11.01.2022 Moora Community Resource Centre & Visitors Centre has you covered with these recycling items!

10.01.2022 FIRST NATIONS PRACTICES COULD INSPIRE MODERN FARMING Indigenous writer and farmer Bruce Pascoe has called for a rethink of Australian agriculture with an increa...sed focus on the success of Aboriginal methods of the past. He was preparing to harvest kangaroo grass for flour in Victorias east until Januarys devastating bushfires tore through the property. Professor Pascoe estimates yields per acre from kangaroo grass could be about a fifth of grain. But with no water, fertiliser and fuel costs, he believes the crop could be profitable. Article: (AAP) http://tiny.cc/euzusz

10.01.2022 In an online lecture hosted by the Mulloon Institute last night, Dr Allan Savory said Australians and all nations face grave dangers from desertification, mega ...fires and climate change. Like frogs in slowly boiled water the fate of our grand children is in the hands of the current governing generation more than at any time history," he said. However, the scientific advisors that political and world leaders currently depend on and the many climate conferences and meetings vital to the future of humanity have so far delivered only conflict, chaos and confusion he said. It was an unarguable truth that if we do not address the cause of a problem we cannot solve it. In short, he said, it is clear that climate change is a management problem, he said. https://www.beefcentral.com//allan-savory-urges-world-lea/

10.01.2022 Sharing this post created by a colleague and friend. Such a great way to start the week.

10.01.2022 Walter talks about how our planet evolved and then continues on with how we can build carbon in the soil and free us from costly inputs. The real punch line is at the very end, food nutrition, and how that changed after world war two. If you are interested in preventative health and growing nutritional food this is a must listen to. Enjoy and be inspired to make change.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GvwMm9P3Ejk

09.01.2022 YOU ARE NATURE Many of western societies problems today are either directly, or indirectly related to our severance with Nature. Whether it be chronic health... or ecosystem destruction, when we see ourselves as independent of this intricate web of life we fall by the wayside. Regenerative Agriculture is an alternative to this narcissistic approach to living & production. When we look natural systems through the eyes of co-creation rather than domination, we rekindle our omnipresent relationship with nature, and end up physically healthier as a result.

08.01.2022 Pasture raised poultry is higher nutritionally in food value. A safe and very tasty meal. Let food be your medicine.

07.01.2022 Grow Festival is happening again this year, check out the events page https://www.facebook.com/DandaraganWay/

07.01.2022 EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST OPEN FOR PUBLIC SCULPTURE IN DANDARAGAN TOWNSITE The Shire of Dandaragan is calling for expressions of interest from experienced and eme...rging professional sculptors / public artists who are residents of Western Australia, for the commissioning of a STEM-themed sculptural work. The artist would be required to create a public art sculpture as part of the Dandaragan Streetscape and Art Enhancement Project. The sculpture will have a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) theme and will be installed on the road reserve adjacent to the Dandaragan Primary School (corner of Camm Road). The project aims to beautify and enhance the sense of place in the Dandaragan townsite, by installing vibrant and contemporary public art forms. The artwork will interpret and express the local areas natural, physical and industrial characteristics, and social and cultural values in a way that supports local stories and invites visitors to stop and engage with the streetscape, and build impact and interest around the townsite. The deadline for submitting an expression of interest is 5pm Monday 12 October 2020. For further information or to submit an expression of interest, go to the Shire of Dandaragan Arts and Culture page at https://www.dandaragan.wa.gov.au//co/arts-and-culture.aspx. This art project is funded by the Shire of Dandaragan and the Australian Governments Drought Communities Programme.

07.01.2022 This is a well rounded description on regen ag. Clear and easy to understand.

06.01.2022 Imagine if straight after harvest you had native grasses that were waiting below, ready to continue growing... That is precisely what Colin Seis has achieved o...n his property Winona in the central tablelands of New South Wales, and now you can learn how to! Colins Pasture Cropping Course is live and we now have over 60 famers deploying these earth friendly techniques on their own farms. The best part, if any farmers have questions related specifically to their system, they can easily log in to their Social learning area and either ask the community or Colin himself their personal questions. Lets restore our grasslands and really shift the needle on carbon sequestration.

05.01.2022 Do grasses store carbon like trees? Many people have heard that trees can sequester or store carbon but did you know that grasses also serve this important role...? In fact, although trees can store more carbon, the storage in grass may be more stable since much of it is below ground. This makes it less likely to be lost to the atmosphere during fires, droughts or floods. Trees store more carbon aboveground in trunks, branches and leaves while grasses store more carbon belowground in their roots

05.01.2022 How to Grow Ginger and Garlic from Stalk

03.01.2022 A beautiful demonstration of good will by caring community members. The flow on benefit being very evident.

02.01.2022 A post shared by EarthWhile Australia. Along with 7 other people, I did a two day microscope soil health course recently at Moora. We all got so much from the 2 days.

01.01.2022 Yunjidt Mandji - Bulrush Rope This plant serves many purposes for Bibbulmun people. Apart from providing a valuable food source it can also be used for rope mak...ing. The green rope was made with fresh fibre which will dry over time to a soft flexible but very strong rope. The middle rope was made green and is now about 2 years old. The brown rope was made from already dried plant material which I soaked in water to stop it from breaking. It is a very course rope with little flexibility but remains strong. See more