25/10/2010
Robbie at Longwood is a strictly NO CHEMICAL farmer.
He has redesigned his farm with 25 metre corridors around the entire boundary and 2 corridors up the centre of his property . This year we sowed another 6.5ha . His revegetation works link neighbours Davies and Seach . Together they have created 50m ( each giving 25metres) wide corridors in some places , running several kilometres linking unused roadways , the railway line , roadsides and remnant creek lines, in a continuous chain.
Susan Sleigh DPI grant & Grey Crown Babbler Project .
Dhurringile Prisoners erect the fences.
The grass was very long this year and grazing the areas to be sown with sheep had not worked .
The tractor slashing method was used again , Robbie didn't have time to slash before we came so Rob H . helped out . First he tried slashing after we sowed but the soil we turned over clogged the slasher so we reverted to the slash then seed method. Earth mites may be a problem but there has been good follow-up rain since we sowed.
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