Scale is important when you have a bit of land (OK, so 16 acres isn't much to most farmers but to two boys from Newcastle, it's a fair bit). We are yet to get our heads around how we will manage our big paddocks such as the one above (which is about 7 acres in area) and we find ourselves working at very different scales....from this macro scale trying to develop a land management system for the entire property that will enable us to manage weeds, revegetate and (probably) run some cattle to....
the almost micro scale where we germinate seeds to grow into seedlings for planting out in the vege and herb gardens. Sometimes you just don't think such small scale interventions are important in the bigger picture but they are.
Scale is important when you have a bit of land (OK, so 16 acres isn't much to most farmers but to two boys from Newcastle, it's a fair bit). We are yet to get our heads around how we will manage our big paddocks such as the one above (which is about 7 acres in area) and we find ourselves working at very different scales....from this macro scale trying to develop a land management system for the entire property that will enable us to manage weeds, revegetate and (probably) run some cattle to....
the almost micro scale where we germinate seeds to grow into seedlings for planting out in the vege and herb gardens. Sometimes you just don't think such small scale interventions are important in the bigger picture but they are.
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