Worthy letter from The Age

A letter from today’s Age worth considering.

Natural Sequence Farming at Tarwyn Park

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griculture is among the largest contributors to climate change.

Pie charts illustrating carbon dioxide emissions usually have a large slice of the piece set aside for agriculture.

Considering the number of people who walk the planet, agriculture as it has evolved is not a luxury emission, rather essential and so it is not the process itself that is a concern, rather how we go about feeding ourselves.

Peter Andrews of Tarwyn Park in the New South Wales Hunter region, created broad interest in his “Natural Sequence Farming”, a process he had developed to restore the quality of Australia’s inherently poor soils that modern production ideas had further degraded.

Sadly, Tarwyn Park has been sold to make way for a Korean-owned open cut coal mining venture, but there are now hopes that his dream will live on.

Read the ABC story - “Renewed hopes Tarwyn Park's Natural Sequence Farming method will continuedespite property sale”.