Recreating the Country - Ten key principles for designing sustainable landscapes
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Are you ready to transform your property into a flourishing biodiverse landscape that can also provide extra income streams?
Are you someone who looks for solutions when you see the problems faced by our natural environment?
This fully illustrated easy to read revegetation guide, based on over 30 yrs practical experience and scientific research, will walk you through the landscape restoration processes and save you time & money by avoiding unnecessary setbacks.
Full of ideas and insights on how to enhance farm resilience, bring back biodiversity and diversify income. Clear and engaging with real-world examples making it the ideal personal reference book and a practical gift for friends or family with a country property and big dreams.
Whether you own a small hobby farm, a large estate or have an urban or rural native garden, this book gives you the tools you need to create resilient ecosystems and greatly enhance local biodiversity.
'Inspiring, practical and written for doers, it’s the essential guide for anyone ready to restore biodiversity that will last for centuries.'
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by ABC journalist Rhiannon Stevens (click on title above for a 4 minute read of Rhiannon's article)
'Stephen Murphy’s philosophy and key principles for revegetation expand the potential of tree planting methods and technologies. They open new ways of thinking about the kind of rural and urban landscapes that we need to create.'
About this book:
Chapter by chapter, what you will discover in Recreating the Country:
Chapter 1 reviews revegetation in the past and explains why we need to think bigger and better
Chapter 2 describes the sustainable design system, its valuable attributes and supporting scientific research
Chapter 3 (new) provides six case studies of people who have used ‘biorich’ design and how it fits their unique applications: An award winning winery; a boutique dairy; a traditional grazier; a biodynamic farmer; an engineer and a 'biorich' demonstration property. This chapter also looks at environmental stewardship and Conservation Covenants
Chapter 4 (new) gives practical examples of how the design system can incorporate productive plants to create income while increasing biodiversity
Chapter 5 describes how to incorporate farm forestry and improve biodiversity across all rural landscapes
Chapter 6 (new) looks at the critical role of paddock trees and the importance of landscape connections. It recommends community grass-roots methods that get results
Chapter 7 discusses planting on heavy volcanic soils, saline soils and lime rich/alkaline soils. It includes simple soil tests and lists suitable plant species
Chapter 8 provides a practical description of the four techniques used in revegetation projects - natural regeneration, direct seeding, planting tubestock and rewilding
Chapter 9 explains how plantations/remnants can be managed to enhance their biodiversity through the use of cool burning, grazing, thinning and controlling pest plants and animals.
'Writing with passion, commitment and insight, Stephen Murphy emphasises the need to mimic nature and that working with nature requires a long-term perspective. It’s an important reminder that the actions we take today will shape the country that future generations will inherit.’
Andrew Bennett, Emeritus professor in Ecology, La Trobe University
'The sustainable biorich model is a way of ‘breaking down the fence’ between farmers and foresters.’
Geraint Richards, Head Forester for King Charles III
'This is a beautiful book, which shines with the optimism and determination of the rural community, bearing witness that we can do more (individually and collectively) to recreate the country that we want.'
Richard Loyn, Ecologist and adjunct professor, La Trobe University
