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.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Boys will be boys

These are our boys who have been keeping our ewes company in recent days and we have - we hope - 1000 babies due in September. These magnificent men in their woolly jackets are our genetic "lever" which we use to increase the body frame size or the fineness of t he wool (micron level). We don't change them all at once. We cull a third of them every year or two.
Cruel really.