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    Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved

    By Peter Andrews

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    Featured on Australian Story, Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He has faced bankruptcy and family break-up. But now, on the brink of ecological disaster, leading politicians, international scientists and businessmen are beating a path to his door as they grapple with how best to alleviate the affects of drought on the Australian landscape. Described as a man who reads and understands the Australian landscape better than most scientists, supporters of Peter Andrews claim he has done what no scientist ever thought to do - he has restored streams and wetlands to the way they were before European settlement interfered with them. the startling results of his natural sequence farming are said to have been achieved very cheaply, simply and quickly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9780733319624
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    Peter Andrews

    Peter Andrews is a lifelong cycling enthusiast. For nearly 20 years he has been helping people take up cycling and to enjoy the experience. From 1996 to 2009 Peter worked as Chief Executive of a UK cycling charity. In 2009 he set up ParkThatBike, a consultancy that specialises in cycle parking. Bike Easy is based on Peter's experiences and it answers the questions that people ask again and again... What sort of bike should I buy? Where’s the best place to buy a bike? How do I get my kids cycling? How do I stop my bike being stolen? Where are the best places to cycle? How do I cope if the bike breaks down? Is cycling to work a realistic option for me? What help and support is available? Bike Easy covers all these topics and much more. It’s full of simple, practical advice.

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    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to anyone owning rural land.Clearly written by a practitioner rather than a desk jockey the book details how one can harness available plant life, including weeds, to promote fertility via mulching. When coupled with mechanical repairs of degraded land structures regenerate so called dead land into fertile pastures and forests.Whilst there is some repetition in the book this appears to stem from passion as opposed to limited writing ability. Also included is a historical narrative on Australia's land degradation which runs counter to the accepted revised history that the Australian Aboriginals were custodians of the land. The methods described in the book form what was later named Peter Andrews 'Natural Sequence Farming'.
    • 5/5
      Ths book made a profound change to our thinking on our property. We had been long term anti-chemical farmers, but had a conventional view of weeds, which we now know are actually beneficial for soil content.We are now slashing the native grasses to form a mulch layer, have trees of many varieties ready to plant to battle the eucalypt monoculture and are seeing the return of wildflowers in larger numbers. Rather than get rid of fallen timber, it is now being used to slow water down potential erosion gullies, allowing the water to drift rather than rush, letting soil gather against the timber to create tiers down these slopes, which has happened very quickly.We are encouraging the growth of rushes in the creeks, rather than the clear unhindered flow that conventionally damages the creek banks.Andrew's thought process will not be for the many conventional farmers locked into the system, but it suits us perfectly and we consider this a must read book for anyone who loves their land.