Death of a Giant 3 – How old are our trees?

When I look at our big remnant eucalypts I have often wondered how old they are. For many of them, they could be anywhere from one hundred to five hundred years old. Some types of trees I know to be much younger, particularly the ones I planted myself, or were planted by someone I know... Continue Reading →

Hidden Water – What Makes Things Grow?

My wonderful farm assistant Dmitry Grishin is doing a study on water in the soil at the Australian National University. To do it, he's setting up sampling points all over both of the farms and measuring the penetration of rainfall. Initially we didn't have any rainfall (horrible dry season), but in the last couple of... Continue Reading →

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