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2-day Joel Salatin workshop with Taranaki Farm (Central Victoria)
December 2nd - 3rd 2010

After his wildly popular visit to Daylesford as a part of the Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival in May, Taranaki Farm is pleased to announce Joel Salatin’s return to Australia in Nov/Dec for a series of 2 day workshops touring Australia.

Arguably the world’s most famous farmer, Joel Salatin was recently featured in two newly released food documentaries, Fresh and the Academy Award nominated Food Inc will be hosted by Fusion Farms in Victoria and Tasmania in November/December 2010 as a part of the RegenAG Workshop Series.

Time is rushing towards our next Taranaki Farm workshop. This time we’re privileged to be having visiting USA Holistic Management trainer Kirk Gadzia over to our farm in Central Victoria. This is a workshop you’ll not want to miss!.

Learn all about time-controlled grazing and the role animals can play in farm regeneration. Animals management is a critical element in any permaculture design. Improve your understanding of the benefits animals offer permaculture and skill up on the finer points of pasture management, stock systems design and perennial polyculture development.

This workshop is FarmReady approved, so farmers, their family, land managements and indigenous land managers may be able to attend for free through the federal govenment’s FarmReady scheme. See the website below for details.

Book before July 1st and enjoy the EarlyBird 15% discount!

After attending the recent Keyline & Carbon Farming workshop with Darren Doherty and the Compost & Compost Tea workshop with Paul Taylor, Jon Western, a victorian farmer chatted with Stan Falloon about his experience attending these two workshops and how they have transformed his thinking and approach to his farm.

“I’ve never run into anybody like Darren (Doherty) that at the end of those three days I just felt we hadn’t tapped anywhere near all his knowledge.” - Jon Western

To attend any of the workshops in the Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series (RegenAG), visit www.RegenAG.com

My friends Belinda & Jason Hagan of the The McIvor Landcare Group have arranged for Peter Andrews to speak on Thursday 13th May 2010 (the first night of the Compost & Compost Tea workshop) at the Tooborac Mechanics Institute Hall, Northern Highway Tooborac at 7:30pm.

To attend this presentation, contact Belinda Hagan (0419 422 238)
or Jason Hagan (0428 414 547).
Go to www.mcivorlandcare.org for more details and a flyer for the event.

The next chapter of the ‘Keyline & Compost’ injection rig chronicled here. This unit exceeds the former design on several fronts; most notably its seeding mechanism and tank capacity.

Taranaki Farm hit on the frontpage of the Macedon Ranges Leader newspaper last Tuesday April 13th. Barry Kennedy, the paper’s reporter heard about the Keyline & Carbon Farming Workshop we were running and decided to pay the farm a visit. After walking the farm and talking for over an hour Barry left with the words, “you’ve given me ten stories!”. I didn’t envy his job of distilling the epic span of our conversation but he did a fine job.

Click here for the full story…

If a words popular use were tracked graphically, then the chart measuring usage of the term ’sustainable’ would mirror any of the other explosive exponential graphics characterising human activity in the 20th and early 21st century.

In our growing anxiety, we scrambled towards ’sustainability’ for we’ve come to understand in our gut how unsustainable our activities have really become. With a tap root in environmentalism, the word’s popular usage now ironically embraces the opposite pole of mainstream economics and the stock market. As the reader would be aware, it is completely common to hear a soundbite uttered by acme incorporated that states “…our first quarter profits are sustainable”. This word choice here is not a coincidence.

It is a slippage that reveals the reptilian understanding we all have now for the seriousness of our condition. Something the cerebral cortex still plays in denial.

We’ve put together the print poster for the upcoming Compost & Compost Tea workshop with Paul Taylor and myself. If you’re lucky you might just spy this poster around the traps.

This course is going to be outstanding, so don’t miss the opportunity to talk all things compost & compost tea, including the very first demonstration of the keyline plow injection system for compost tea. A while back I published the development of this system and there has been huge interest across the country prompting me to create mach II which features a much larger capacity compost tank and simplified plumbing. Don’t miss it.

We’re very pleased to present the Fusion Farms Compost & Compost Tea Course with Paul Taylor coming up in May 2010. A practical workshop on how to hydrate, enhance and heal your soils by understanding the soil food web and how to make biologically active Aerated Compost Tea.

As many of you have been following the developing of the compost tea and keyline injection rig developed here on Taranaki Farm, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to attend this very special workshop with both Paul Taylor and Ben Falloon.