Holding Water: Working with Nature to Drought-Proof Your Farm
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Published 2021-09-08
Further viewing:
Natural sequence farming: How Peter Andrews rejuvenates drought-struck land | Australian Story | ABC News • Natural sequence farming: How Peter A...
The Mulloon Institute Landscape Regeneration | Regenerating the Australian Landscape
• The Mulloon Institute Landscape Regen...
Further reading:
Chris interviewed Danthonia farm manager Johannes Meier for Plough Quarterly, May 2019:
www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/beati…
About us: We're the parents of three sons and live at Danthonia Bruderhof, a Christian community in northern New South Wales, Australia, and enjoy discussing our faith, family, food (Norann's an awesome cook!), and the day-to-day adventures of life in "the bush".
Follow Norann on Twitter at twitter.com/NorannV
More about the Bruderhof community where we live: www.bruderhof.com/en/where-we-are/australia/dantho…
Norann is a regular contributor to the Bruderhof website's "Voices" blog: www.bruderhof.com/en/voices-blog/our-authors/noran…
Norann & Chris are both contributing authors for the Bruderhof's publishing house, Plough, and its magazine, Plough Quarterly. www.plough.com/en/authors/v/norann-voll
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All Comments (21)
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Norann and Chris, I greatly admire what you are doing. Heal the land and it will reward you exponentially far into the future. Well done.
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Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed the video, so educational and their commitment to the land is honourable and great to see. I'm an indigenous Australian and I commend you all. Great work. 👍🏾🙏🏾
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Well done ..Peter Andrews has a wealth of knowledge that definately works. I like his method of slowing the movement of water down, by causing it to backflow or swirl around using boulders and the like. When u look at a river system, often it turns around on itself forming billabongs, slowing its movement down.
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Wow great video guys. I love videos like this. I noticed in the opening aerial shot lots of tree guards. Would also be great to know which trees, shrubs, reeds etc you planted and in what sequence.
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Hello from Germany, this is a very very impressive project and wonderful insights. Great to see people are able to heal Earth and make a living off of it. Big big thanks to all involved. I hope this knowledge would arrive back here where I live
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I love seeing these projects. First time I learnt that you could do this was when I learnt about Peter Andrews and Tony Coote on Australian Story, absolutely Amazing people ❤ this needs to be funded nationally. We can even start small and see how it goes. Commitment to restore 5000km of our most degraded creek systems.
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I’m stunned by the “warning.” As our Earth continues to warm, every effort should be made to rehabilitate every square inch of current farm land. Anticipating changes to historical rainfall patterns is one complication. More and more land in the US is badly depleted of organic content, but starting efforts must be undertaken. This video was informative and enjoyable to watch. 🙏🏽
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Very informative and brilliant video. Thanks for sharing and wishing you prosperity in your endeavors 🙏
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It's just great to see what you have done with your farm. Creating the water catching areas is so good to see. 'How can we hold on to this precious thing...?' Not just the water, but the whole landscape and every creature that relies on it. I hope that many, many people will learn from what you are doing, and implement it in their own landscapes.
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Wonderful. What I admire most is that you have spent so much time and certainly a lot of money to carry out this restructuring. You must really love this land. I hope it will make you feel grateful. Not only for those who are there in Australia, but for the whole community.
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Thanks Norann and Chris, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this (actually watched several bits a few times) I love how connected you are to the land!! Thanks for sharing 🙂😊
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Most excellent!!!!!!!
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Must watch African And Indian efforts to Solve this hardpressing issue. Specially Dr.Pol's methods withouth using Heavy machinery.
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Absolutely terrific video guys, thankyou very much for compiling it and sharing it, I take my hat off to the "get it done" mentality of Johannes and Jason and look forward to catching up soon.
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Thank you much for caring for the land. I get so sad at the destruction everywhere, this gives a little hope.
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Excellent video, would love to see an annual follow up showing progression. Well done to you all.
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This was quite interesting. You guys are doing amazing work there...good ole reliable, God-given nature!
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You should import some beavers; they would love the landscape and would be a tremendous help against both drought and flood, as they change the landscape. But I guess, the Australian government would be quite sceptical to import yet another critter?!
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A really interesting video! I'm looking forward towards seeing more about the farm at Danthonia and your water management system. It would also be interesting to learn what you guys use to supply drinking water to the buildings and houses - is it connected to the city water grid or an independent system?
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How sweet.... when nature as humankind humbles itself to learn and work with nature in her other forms and expressions.
