Handbooks for Farmers

Solve your challenges with growing food, especially when the weather turns bad, by repairing the ecosystems within your production systems with these handbooks for farmers. Solidly grounded with the latest research and grower experiences, using our simple-to-follow instructions, explanatory diagrams, and links to videos, farmers using organic, biodynamic syntropic and regenerative agriculture, get the help they need to grow food eco-logically.

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Eco-logical Farming Handbook

Reduce Costs - Boost Production


Get support with growing food by repairing the ecosystems underpinning your production systems.

Using this Handbook you'll learn to solve the root causes of the soil, pest, and disease issues holding you back. You'll develop production systems better able to bounce back from the impacts of extreme weather, and reduce the costs of growing food for you and our environment!

Build Healthy Soil

Tired of the endless cycle of spreading compost and minerals?


Our soils may not show the customary signs of soil degradation like erosion and compaction, but we rely on inputs to grow a decent crop. It's difficult to appreciate what we can achieve as virtually all of us grow food in soil that no longer works properly.

We’ll show you how to repair the essential natural processes in your soil. It’s not complicated! Your plants will get five-star catering directly from your soil ecosystem rather than via the intermittent inputs you supply!

How To Drought-Proof Your Farm

Protect your farm's future


Drought is no longer a distant threat. It's a harsh reality that's impacting farms worldwide. While traditional solutions like irrigation, mulch and drought-tolerant crops help, they often fall short.

Discover how to use a more regenerative and cost-effective approach.

With our Handbook, you'll learn how to affordably maximise rainwater capture across your farm by getting more water infiltrating and stored in your soil. With improved water retention, soil health, and nutrient cycling, your farm will better withstand and recover from drought.

Our practical, step-by-step guide shows you how to implement simple, effective grazing, cropping, and horticultural techniques and, if necessary, how to augment these solutions with engineered water harvesting techniques like Natural Sequence Farming, Keyline, Swales, and dryland structures.

Get your copy of the Drought-Proof Your Farm Handbook today.

GrowMap Handbook

Wouldn't it be great to grow plants that look after themselves?


We can grow strong, healthy, and self-sufficient crops by better understanding our growing conditions and then choosing crops that grow well in these conditions.

Using the steps detailed in this Handbook, you'll easily collect the information you need to understand and map the growing conditions across your land.

You can then select plants that will grow well in these conditions and design features to improve your production systems, like windbreaks, water harvesting structures and open canopied legume trees to reduce sunburnt fruit.

Add your GrowMap as a layer to your existing farm plan. No special skills or expensive surveying equipment are required.

Living Mulch

Tired Of Mulching? Grow Mulch Right Where You Need It


How much do you spend on mulch every year? Just to watch it disappear and need replacing... Mulch is useful, but spreading mulch is not the easiest, cheapest, or best thing to do.

With this Handbook, you'll craft a mixture of perennial and self-seeding ground cover plants to grow mulch permanently right where you need it.

You'll learn how to create a lush, self-sustaining ground cover reducing weed pressure and improving soil health naturally. You will save time and money eliminating the need for annual mulching.

Get your copy of the Living Mulch Handbook today. You and your soil will be better off!