Polyculture Farms aims to educate and inform people about desertification and dryland restoration using permaculture principles. Our first regen site is located on 3.5-hectares in Southern Downs, southern Queensland (purchased 2019). We endeavour to inform, educate and guide the public to ensure the success of any project, whether small or large. The purpose of all of our content is to allow people to learn about the stages of a project from research to implementation.
Please join us for a tour of the first part of our water harvesting system, six weeks into project commencement. We have just started to change the way that water interacts with this landscape in order to begin fighting off desertification
Please join us as we dive into our first warm season regen works since purchasing the property. I will post a follow up vlog highlighting successes, failures and what we’d do differently next time.
In Australian semi-arid regions and drylands, often the most abundant resource for regen is dry hardwood. Most property owners choose to burn it. We prefer to chop it up and lay it across our slopes on contour during high rainfall years. This terraforms the local landscape and atmosphere to favour fungal development, while retaining habitat and boosting ecological function
The past week has been so exciting to observe and film. First we began by planning our swale mound management as our not so mature crop geared up for a seven day heat wave. Luckily what followed was a beautiful sharp sudden 30mm downpour. These are the downpours which will give you an inch of pioneer tree growth per week when the rainfall is harvested right.
Before designing a landscape and starting a permaculture project, it always helps to analyse the specific biome in which the project is occurring. The Southern Downs Region is believed to have most likely been a hybrid of a grass and tree savannah. We have therefore based all of our species selection (Plant and animal), terraforming plans and planting techniques accordingly.
Before designing a landscape and starting a permaculture project, it always helps to analyse the specific biome in which the project is occurring. The Southern Downs Region is believed to have most likely been a hybrid of a grass and tree savannah. We have therefore based all of our species selection (Plant and animal), terraforming plans and planting techniques accordingly
We’ve finally finished our basic water harvesting concept design. At the end of the video we pulled out the drone for the first practice in anticipation of our 12 month progress vid coming in Februar
Today is a nice relaxed one for us! We have a quick walk through the swale and discuss a few of our tree species that are performing the best on the swale mound so far. Next, we start to harvest what’s ready of our cover crop seed
Season 2
It’s great to be producing content again for our second season. Today marks twelve months since breaking ground and we are stoked with the results. At the time of writing this we are flooded out for a couple of days after receiving 6 inches of rain! We cannot wait to get back there and film next weeks update!
