I once asked a “chemical free” producer who was seeking a premium for a product why he didn’t take the logical next step and become Certified Organic. His answer- “I don’t want to be told what to do on my own farm”. With the exception of our “Instagram Farmer” friends, most farmers just want to [...]
Much of the justification of land managers using fire as a tool comes from our perception of how Australian first nations people carried out “Cultural Burning” and then how our ancestors tamed the land we now occupy. Over time (only 200 years), the local European interpretation of indigenous fire management has been bastardised to a [...]
We’ve been banging on about rotational grazing for as long as we have opened the doors of the Kandanga Farm Store but it’s worthwhile to refine this blanket idea - of moving animals through landscapes rather than giving them constant access to all areas all the time (set stocking). Moving animals through landscape mirrors what [...]
Recently, chemical regulator APVMA announced that from 10 September 2025 it will be an offence under the AgVet code to have possession or custody of the cancelled active constituent Diazinon in Australia*. This is big news as Diazinon is a poison used in 15 livestock antiparasitic products including the entire range of buffalo fly tags [...]
The thing about being farmers as well as being Farm Store Keepers is that when we consider products and services for the store we think about how we could use them ourselves in our farming operation. Being certified organic and on our own regenerative farming journey we are not attracted to products, services or companies [...]
Roadsides, parks, footpaths and utilities are primarily “maintained” using poison. We have become used to seeing large areas around our signposts and guideposts “browned out” prior to roadside mowing while spraying edges of footpaths, culverts, traffic islands, railway tracks and so on is seen by many as an indicator of “good management” and a necessity [...]
By Tim Scott As the environment becomes an increasing focus of Natural Capital management, I believe there is an emerging problem systemic to Environmental Science, and “Conventional” Agricultural Science, that there must always be a “trade-off’ between food production for a growing population and the environment. A “balancing act” where humans must choose to eat [...]
In my twenties, I worked several seasons between Australia, New Zealand and the US training performance horses. Many of these were played then sold-on into higher level international Polo markets including South Florida, England and even Argentina. In Australia and NZ we predominantly searched out bloodlines that were naturally easy to train, getting ponies [...]
When top farmers travel up to 8 hours to the Mary Valley on “Carbon Friday” the 13th of August, we knew the nationally recognised line-up of speakers presenting at the Kandanga Farm Store event had some valuable insights to share on the fast-developing space of “Natural Capital Management”. Natural Capital includes the ecological assets that [...]
Resilience in the Regen Region by Tim Scott Resilience- Noun: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”. (Thank you Dr. Google) Dr. Ginsburg (close friend of Dr. Google) suggests there are 7 components that make up resilience being; Competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping and control. (2013) This is the second [...]
