It’s 56 pages long, raw and wriggling, and it has a free pull-out poster. We have finally published the newspaper that tells the story of ‘An artist, a farmer and a scientist walk into a bar’, and we’d love to share it with you.

Wouldn’t we all wish to have a pilot license at the age of 87 and be inventing remarkably useful things. Meet the indomitable Allan Yeomans and hear about Lucas’s journey into soil carbon sequestration toolmaking in our latest video.

Wildfood Store was just a newborn at the start of the AFS project. Here’s the story of this bold, beautiful (and entrepreneurial!) project.

Our latest video on the artist, farmer, scientist journey: this one is about the humus project.

It’s funny how time gets away from you. This year I took the big leap to study full-time Honours in Ecology at UNE, and while I am loving every minute of it, my brain is too full of measuring pasture groundcover and landscape function to make space for anything else. And so, despite my best intentions I am yet to publish my farmer stories for ‘Farmers in Flux’.

Bringing the solar project to a beautiful, symbiotic conclusion at Bula Mirri farm: watch our brand new video!

Oberon has a new ‘Field to Forest’ Festival in April, and our very own Diego Bonetto is in the heart of the action.

Jono and Laura aren’t sure what the ‘humus house’ installation at Cementa and Groundswell really was, or where it’s going… but like humus, there’s a lot going on.

Imogen Semmler and Judi Earl have cooked up something fabulous: The Grazing Game. How do you maintain a healthy ecosystem in your paddocks, weather drought, withstand market fluctuations and other curve balls, while making a living from keeping livestock? Imogen got Cementa punters to wear their strategy hats last November at the first trial of the Game.

What’s the difference between charcoal and biochar? Something very significant. Georgie Pollard shares her inspiration in the lead up to the carbon sequestration drawing workshops she’ll be doing at Groundswell this weekend.

Imogen has been hanging out with some very intrepid and ambitious folk lately. Here she leads us deeper into her Farmers in Flux project, introducing four farmers who are on very different journeys towards ecological stewardship and regenerative change.

Our deepest dive yet into the science of humus with Glenn Morris. The key message remains: the complexity of nature may continue to elude full scientific scrutiny, but we know enough to respect it and support its regeneration.

KSCA member Lucas Ihlein was recently invited to contribute a short essay about soil for Kaldor Public Art Projects. The essay has been published in an education resource for school students about artist Asad Rasa, who created a 300 tonne soil installation in Sydney's Carriageworks in May 2019..

Humus lightboxes - Jono tracks our path towards making a house fit for a microbe.

Bjorn speculates on how renewable energy initiatives might learn from the thinking behind ecological agriculture… and other things.

Allan Giddy, who has been using solar technology as a medium for art making for a remarkable 20 years now, is a special guest at our Artist Farmer Scientist picnic on the 28th of April.

Epicurean Harvest farmer Erika Watson puts sunshine at the heart of the artist, farmer, scientist conversation: a special blog about solar energy, horticulture, creative farming, and the future.

“Salad-bowl” pasture anyone? Read about the Hallora Farm tour and soil sample demo in this blog, but you can also be part of conversation with the farmers Niels and Maja Olsen, Lucas, Allan Yeomans, Dru Marsh and Loisa Kiely from Carbon Farmers of Australia at Monash University Art Museum tomorrow, March 23, 2-4pm. Link to details is in the blog!

Diego Bonetto was invited to talk about weeds, but not the usual talk on how to kill them, but new/old perspectives: define what is useful, acknowledge abundance and even harvest the seasonal supply as food produce.

A glimpse of the vision behind Karla Dickens’ short film project with Bruce Pascoe.

Soil humus is both architecture and infrastructure for the organisms that live in it. So what if the humus model could function in the same way… but for people?

What if farmers were paid to adopt farming methods that ensured that the carbon that is causing trouble in our atmosphere was sequestered in their soils?  This tantalising possibility is explored in Lucas Ihlein's collaborative project with Allan Yeomans called 'Baking Earth: Soil and the Carbon Economy', which is currently part of an exhibition in Melbourne.

Its a complete hole. I’ve finished. Its done, finalised. We’ve come to the end. I’ve taken the last photos and video, packed up the car and am ready to drive home. My job is done… I seem to be trying to convince myself of something.

5 years ago, Imogen Semmler left the wacky world of festival production and art making to pursue an Ecology degree at UNE in Armidale. Now, with a vast soil science knowledge bank in her back pocket, she is pursuing a project that bridges these two worlds.

I am in over 1.5 meters which is just up to my shoulder. The going has been both slower and faster than last time…