A MAN WITH A PASSION FOR FARMING

On my final day in Queensland we caught up with Peter Korczynski, who grows passion fruit and Custard apple in a stunning location in the lee of the Glass top Mountains. These were named by Captain Cooke because of their shimmering White appearance from the distance at sea and they very much look like the cores ofthe volcano's that formed them. Passion fruit are grown on vines and harvested from December to September, when the fruit falls to the ground. Earlier we had visited a biodynamic farmer, Susan Rodger, who was gearing up for the full moon that evening.
We had a minutes silence at 11:11:11 on 11:11:11.

My time in Queensland was particularly useful. I also met pecan, broad acre and a multitude of other growers. Perhaps the highlight was the clearest ever explination of climate change. All through our conferences in London and New Zealand there was no mention of Carbon sequestration in the soil. Farmers were being hailed as potential future heroes for keeping a growing population fed!. There was no indication that they may have a major contribution to climate change and that carbon sequestration within soils could become a future income stream! In simple terms there is a fixed amount of carbon on our planet and man is now chiefly responsible for dictating the balance of co2 in the soil, water, vegitation and atmposphere. So it's off to the beach before a 5am start for my flight to Sydney