This photo shows the speed in which degraded areas of land can be revived using regenerative cattle grazing.
The landowners rehabilitated this eroded gully that formed in their paddock by fencing cattle IN it, instead of out of it.
This is counterintuitive to how we currently look at land management and regeneration.
The way in which they did this forms the fundamental methods of regenerative agriculture:
* Intensive grazing undertaken for short periods of time
* Rapid increase of vegetative nutrient cycling through hard hoof trampling in the soil
* Slowing down water flow through creating an uneven surface, reducing erosive potential
* Allowing for rest and recovery periods from grazing.
They achieved this transformation in a period of 2 years. In my previous post on my page, it shows a rehabilitation conservation project that totally removed livestock for a period of 40 years to achieve a similar result.
This method of complete rest and recovery is often referred to as ‘rewilding’.
My argument is that by using well managed regenerative agriculture AND rewilding methods, land can be successfully regenerated at much faster rates than previously assumed.
Photos taken by Derek and Kirrily Blomfield of Liverpool Plains, NSW.
