"FARMHER'S" Girls who farm

The food we plant and harvest and consume can heal us.  This is a plain simple fact.  'Good Food' carries a vibration.  At last the world is looking at how the invisible governs the visible.

Women are doing a lot of the finer work in the vegetable patches!  Delicate weeding and a subtly that is required for balance in our gardens. 

"Social  enterprise Onions"

Male stereotypes around farming in over the last 100 years have been destructive and have been very 'gung ho'  about the use of chemical and the destruction of land under the guise of farming.  This has to be turned back around to loving practices when dealing with the living Earth.

It is wonderful for children to learn about the growing processes. There's a real joy around this.  It is so needed to fully integrate proper learning.  How can a child learn properly if the child doesn't even know where the very food they consume comes from or how it is grown? 
After learning where food grows, the next step is to understand how the food grown causes their bodies to grow also... This is home school science 101

 *Social Enterprise Onions =  Onions grown from the onion bums.  See my blog.  "How to make a bag of onions last forever".

https://melonpops.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/making-a-bag-of-onions-last-forever-here-is-how/

Sychronicity FARM interview.

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HERE’S TO ALL OUR FARMERS DAUGHTERS

The emergence of Helen Bender on our national television screens last night...

Posted by Dr David Pascoe BVSc PhD OVH Repro on Monday, 26 October 2015

Signs to the Gas Fields.

 

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Farmers need to admit truth.

Link to Lock the Gate

Some how this statement above from the NSW Farmers President  is not quite true.  It sounds educated and firey enough but they are way off base though in hind sight.

It was alright when it was largely unseen... when the damage was seen it was all too late and socially acceptable too to a point for some time.  For a lot of good farmers this is changing with them now.

In the past farmers are just as responsible for serious degradation of land. This somehow gave a green light to the present degradation forced on the land.


So I feel there will be more head way made with this mess when truth is admitted and then and only then will this situation change in the energy stakes.  Farmers are responsible for all the other degradation of land in this country.

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Why is Dairy Australia sniffing around with AGL and upstream Gas and the Water and Milk!

About Dairy Australia

Dairy Australia is the national services body for dairy farmers and the industry. Our role is to help farmers adapt to a changing operating environment, and achieve a profitable, sustainable dairy industry.

Dairy Industry Association of Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From Jo James Holden

I just wanted to share with you all something that really bothered me on Wednesday while I was at the front gate of AGL on Fairbairns Road in the No Stopping Zone (School Buses Excepted)

We were waiting for XXX a friend to be brought out of the site and a woman called Claire Miller (Dairy Australia manager of policy strategy) arrived.

She chatted briefly with Police and was allowed to park just east of the gate. She introduced herself to us and gave us her card and stated she would like to hear our side of the CSG debate. It was clear she was not really interested. She then asked if she could take photos of us.

We started to fill her in on the toxic legacy that CSG would have on cattle and asked her why she had been allowed to park in the No Stopping Zone. She declined to answer and retreated to her car. Dairy Australia are in business with AGL.

Gloucester Valley

I have parodied what they say and given what I would call a more accurate description of who Dairy Australia really are:

Who we are they really hey??
Dairy Australia is the national services (CORPORATE) body for the dairy industry. Our role is to induce farmers to adapt to a changing operating environment due to mining, and make them believe they can achieve a profitable, sustainable dairy industry.
We act as the ‘investment arm’ of the industry, investing in dodgy projects that can’t be done efficiently by individual farmers or companies because of the level of corruption involved.

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NSW Farmers Submission - SEPP

 

SEPP = STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY

Changes to the planning approvals process for mining developments – Letter Builder

On the 29th July, the NSW Government released proposed changes to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) 2007 through the release of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) Amendment (Resource Significance) 2013 (“the SEPP”).

NSW Farmers has serious concerns about the government’s motivation for these changes and the effect that these amendments in their current form will have on the way mining developments are approved. The NSW Government has stated that the ‘primary purpose of the proposed SEPP is to ensure that where mineral resources are demonstrated to be significant to the State, they are given greater consideration in the assessment of DAs.’

NSW Farmers will be providing a formal submission on this SEPP and raising the issue with the Premier, The Hon. Barry O’Farrell.

You can do this using our letter builder below.
 http://www.nswfarmers.org.au/sumission-builder/mining-sepp-amendments

A copy of your letter will be emailed to the Premier at: office@premier.nsw.gov.au 

and the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure at:
 information@planning.nsw.gov.au

Comment on this draft SEPP closes on the 12th August.

My Letter to the Premier was as follows:

The below submission has been sent on your behalf.

Mary-Ellen Peters
14 Morgo Street
URUNGA NSW 2455
Dear Premier
Re:  Proposed amendments to State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) Amendment (Resource Significance) 2013.
I am a mother of three grown children and I was married in the Hunter Valley.

These proposed amendments prioritise mining interests over the interests of the environment and the community. The amendments make it clear that the ‘significance of the resource’ – using the economic benefit of the resource as a measure of that significance - is to be the principle consideration when assessing development applications for mining projects., The motivation and objectives behind the amendments are not clear.

The arrogant approach that the government has taken with these proposed amendments makes a mockery of the hard working landowners, environmentalists, communities and general public who care deeply about the future of their landscapes and natural resources. The notion of the ‘significance’ and economic benefits of developing a resource being the primary consideration when assessing approval for mining development is frightening., Mining development should be subject to truly balanced considerations and triple bottom line assessments.

I care about the long term future of our country and our state and I care about the potential for these developments to have an impact on air and water quality and clean green agricultural farm land. These considerations must be considered appropriately when assessing development., I also care about the social impact that mining development can have on a community. These amendments not only increase my own sense of disempowerment, but also the sense of disempowerment felt in my community.

I strongly urge you to abandon these proposed amendments.

Thank you again for the opportunity to respond to this important inquiry.

Yours sincerely
Mary-Ellen Peters

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Farmers call for support from local council for Doubtful Ck blockade

From Lock the Gate Alliance

• Local farmers who have been strong supporters of the Doubtful Ck anti-CSG

  blockade have gone public in an attempt to clear up false reports
  circulating in recent weeks about the impact of the blockade on local
  residents. In a letter to Kyogle Council the farmers have also called
  on council to support them in their ongoing efforts to stop coal seam gas
  activities in their local area.
  
  "We want to set the record straight about this blockade as we are disgusted
  at some of the falsehoods that are being pedaled around," said local born
  sixth generation farmer, Don Durrant, who has traveled to Chinchilla in
  Queensland to see first hand the impacts of the CSG industry on rural
  communities.
  
  "There has been a vocal minority claiming to have been abused and
  inconvenienced yet I have been in the thick of the action and I have seen
  none of this- just people calling out to slow down when some locals are
  driving dangerously and aggressively."
  
  "I have only missed three days of the six week blockade and and am
  overwhelmed with gratitude to the dozens and dozens of people who have come
  and camped in adverse conditions to support us local farmers against this
  insidious industry."
  
  "We all have lives to live, families to look after, and farms to run but we
  have put these on hold to try to save the necessities of life- our water,
  our land, our food supply and the beautiful country that our ancestors
  fought and died for," he said.
  
  Local beef cattle and vegetable producer Peter Stackhouse has also been
  central to the action at Doubtful Creek.
  
  "I've only missed two days of the blockade when my back was crook as I want
  to do everything I can to stop this coal seam gas industry," Peter said.
  
  "How we farmers can help is by giving the logistical support to the people
  camping- food and water and hot showers and accommodation when they need
  it," he said.
  
  "I have not seen any of the sort of incidents they are talking about in the
  media- if I had I would have stopped it," he said.
  
  "No-one has been blocked from accessing their properties- only the public
  road and state forest access are being blockaded as we are just here to
  stop Metgasco, no-one else."
  
  "This issue encompasses more than just our immediate environs and there are
  not enough people in such sparsely populated rural areas to provide
  continuous opposition at this type of blockade, so we welcome the input of
  people from around the region and beyond."
  
  "We have taken our concerns to Kyogle Council in a letter signed by 21
  local landholders as we would like to see more support from our local
  council rather than criticism for something we consider to be a job well
  done under extremely difficult circumstances," he said. 
  THEN the local paper spreads lies and deception in order to placate the failing METGASCO FIASCO. 
  with
  Patrick Gorbunovs story in the Northern Star "FARMERS SAY NO"
  http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/farmers-say-enough/1776211/#.UT0CjRJZxpw.email
  

  KYOGLE Shire Mayor Ross Brown has called on Doubtful Creek protesters to move on, following a meeting with frustrated landowners who feel intimidated by elements of the anti-CSG community.
  "They've achieved as much as they can possibly achieve with the protest action so far. All they're now creating is bad feeling," Cr Brown said yesterday.
  Kyogle Council met with residents from some 15 Doubtful Creek properties on Thursday, who say they have been negatively affected by the month-long Knights Rd protest.
  The council will now draft a set of protocols to manage any future protests and avoid these kinds of issues happening again.
  "Our protocols will address such issues as parking, camping, toilet facilities, keeping the road free, and working with the protest groups and keeping the local population as minimally affected by it as we possibly can," Cr Brown said.
  He said some local landowners had reached "the final straw" and had sought help from the council to take more responsibility for the situation.
  "The crux of the matter was on Tuesday night, a gentleman out there was trying to get his cattle to market and they blockaded his gate in and they wouldn't move, and he couldn't get his cattle out," he said.
  "They feel harassed, they feel intimated and it's been going on for so long they almost feel like they're under siege."
  Cr Brown said the situation had reached the point where it was detrimental to people's state of mind.
  "Realistically, if I was involved in a protest now, and being aware of the way it's been going on, I think those groups should pack up and move," he said. "The downside to this is now outweighing whatever it is they think they're picking up."
  Lock the Gate spokesman Ian Gaillard said tensions were rising after almost four weeks of protest.
  Mr Gaillard said he had successful meetings with both Kyogle Council and senior Richmond police two weeks ago to discuss concerns about safety and respect issues at the site.
  But he said the trouble lay with the NSW Government.
  "The Northern Rivers is becoming a pressure cooker because the State Government continues to impose this industry on an unwilling community by force. The onus is on the government to pull back and slow this whole process down."

  My yarn around this issue!  ... All of this is clear.  It is easy  to see what is going on here.  These huge companies will stop at absolutely nothing to try to swindle the unsuspecting Australian who is already too busy to notice the real truth because of a lack of time for self discovery of facts.  These people are still relying on the newspaper or the Television to tell them the truth.  Paint the picture, they get up at the crack of dawn and deal with irrate people all day in their small business, they rush around with young children to and from day care and school and extra curricula activities, attempt shopping and eat and do it all over again the next day, there is no time to find out what is going on in the rest of the country and this is replicated right across the nation.
  Some how, these are the huge group of Australians who missed the bit where these large companies started monopolizing the media outlets across Australia.  They missed this and are still blindly going on what they are being fed as what is known  to us who do understand and the rest of the world over as "Spin".  Company spin is what is being broadcast as news.  It is hard to find a good journalist who prints the truth. 
  
  These types of publications that do speak truth are out there  ie Echonetdaily and Terrania Times etc and various websites where truth can be found around these huge issues.   But, if you are one of those busy people you really have to take some time with this as this is the biggest environmental disaster enveloping the entire nation.
  
  If you are reading this blog and you know some one that fits this bill I have described above, they are usually the most hard working people in the neighbourhood,  go and help them understand the truth.  Take a video or two and a bag of popcorn and a beer even if you have to, but go and help!  
  
  If all of Australia did this we would spread the truth of this Gas matter like wild fire.  We need a national week of educate a friend week.   A week we all dedicate time that week to tell someone and interact with someone who needs some education on Coal Seam Gas Mining and the general state of the lax way in which these licenses have been handed out and the fact that none of us receive a thing for this for five years and by then we will be in a lot of trouble if this is not stopped by the time that five years is up.
  Go and tell a new friend at least this week.  The mother is asking for your help - help her where you can in any small way, the planet knows when you care. 

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