Soil and Human Health

02/03/2022

Crow in Claremont

20/12/2020

Happy end of season and here's to new beginnings!
https://www.soilandhumanhealth.com/blog/2020/12/15/under-new-land-management
In which Amanda is inspired by a colleague’s insight into 20th and 21st century thinking, leading her to speculate on what might be coming in the New Year to usher in the New Normal.

IMAGE: Mudmap by Colin Clarke EDITING AND SOUNDS: Rory Allen ‘We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn’ Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life: BIG END  End of year podcasts require big end of year thinking. I’ve got

27/10/2020

https://www.soilandhumanhealth.com/blog/2020/10/24/38-once-upon-a-time
More from once-upon-a-time land when I meet a long-dead relative I could relate to, who brings tales of the past a lot closer to the present day.

Amanda ventures further into once-upon-a-time land, inspired by a relative she meets in Greenough, WA, and a friend’s approach to history that insists on bringing the stories of the colonial past into present day consciousness.

21/09/2020

; Part 2: The Jones brothers, inspired by Col Stanton, are introducing erosion control, land interventions at Boogardie Station, out of Mt Magnet, in WA. As Henry gets serious about documenting the work, Amanda finds synergies between the Jones and the Pollocks efforts on Wooleen Station. She gi

11/06/2020

https://www.soilandhumanhealth.com/blog/2020/6/6/relaxing-with-sheep

In which I get to see a de-stressed mob of sheep really enjoying life in the wheatbelt, near Perenjori, and a working example of great management in the form of a grazing plan. Along the way I come under the spell of the legendary Horse Whisperer, Bud Williams, and learn to curb my cowboy tendencie