18.11.2021
Last week was awful. Right back to winter temperatures below 20C degrees and rain all the time. Getting things done outdoor was more or less impossible and I had to light the stove to get hot water once the solar system could not do the job.
We are getting used to the new anti-virus system. Every retail outlet and hospitality facility door is manned by a person who makes sure you are checked in with the code system and are double vaccinated. Most of this happens automatically on our mobiles because Josh set them up with the right app. At the tiny local market last weekend, people were complaining that to do this was impossible. It would have been impossible for us without Josh, too.
There has been massive protest in Melbourne about a new bill the Victorian parliament is trying to bring in so that there are specific laws in place to handle pandemics. Some of the complaints about the legislation are valid but sadly the protests are being taken over by the more militant anti vax, far right groups who are inciting violence. They put up a scaffold and noose and were saying they should lynch our head of state. This is pretty low as in my reading of things he has put in a massive effort to try and save lives.
We can’t do much about peoples’ behaviour, so Edd and I are trying to get our heads round the concepts of regenerative agriculture. But we can set up to try and improve our soils. The first step is working out what soil tests we need. We plan to sample the best and worse areas on the farm and see how much our present systems have affected the soil. The vegetation is massively different and in the worse areas we have sundew plants and bent grass. Edd has brought a plough that will rip and aerate the soil with out too much disturbance. Then we will need to replace any important trace elements. (We did this 40 years ago but something was missing and nothing much happened).
The aim is to get more carbon absorbed into the earth and get better grass.
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