Diary of a Carbon Farmer

This is the diary of an Australian family who escaped from the city, joined a farming community, and learned to love soil. Carbon Farming is about growing soil carbon - the first link in our food chain. The topsoil is where God's creation is taking place, at every moment. Carbon is the building block of life. By growing it we can restore ecosystems to health. At the same time we can remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere and store it as Carbon in the soil.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Magic from the sky

We just arrived home after 3 days at the Edge Management conference (blogged later) to find the rain gauge more than half full after 2 cracking storms late Wednesday and Thursday. We'd been a month without rain and average temperatures of 42°C or 108°F have dried out the pasture, turning the fields from green to parchment tan colour. But the soil responds immediately to rain. (Unfortunately the weeds respond too. I'll blog Bathurst Burr - my nemisis - later).