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, March 04, 2006

The frog that came to dinner

Frogs are a good omen. This one parked himself on a tomato and Louisa nearly picked him while gathering vegetable for last night's dinner. Frogs are an indicator of environmental health. Our visit by a Grey Shrike Thrush a few weeks ago was also important, according to an ecologist called Freudenberg who spoke to the CMA Farming Systems class this week. (I couldn't be there. Meetings in Sydney.) He told Daniel that these birds are key indicators of growing species diversity. It's arrival could mean we are on track with our reegeneration goals. Or it could mean we have had an unusual season.