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Untrained Environmentalist: How an Australian Grazier Brought His Barren Property Back to Life
Untrained Environmentalist: How an Australian Grazier Brought His Barren Property Back to Life
Untrained Environmentalist: How an Australian Grazier Brought His Barren Property Back to Life
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Fifty years ago a young farmer named John Fenton took over his family's run-down sheep property in Victoria. Named Lanark, the property was barren, windswept, and environmentally all but dead. Fenton set about bringing the property back to life by bringing the environment back to life. He planted trees. He reinstated wetlands. He created wildlife reserves. Other farmers thought he had gone a little mad, but Fenton pressed on. As time went on, he came to realize he had stumbled on something extremely important for the Australian landscape as a whole: an integrated, sustainable farming system that was in tune with nature. Thus, he became an environmentalist almost by chance. Year after year, the tree-planting continued. By the time Fenton handed over the property to his son a few years ago, he had planted close to 100,000 trees. He had turned a desolate, degraded farm into an oasis teeming with bird life. In this book he tells the inspiring story of how his miracle was achieved.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAllen Unwin
Release dateNov 1, 2010
ISBN9781742690681
Untrained Environmentalist: How an Australian Grazier Brought His Barren Property Back to Life
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John Fenton

John Fenton is a music journalist and a professional member of the Jazz Journalists Association. He fell in love with improvised music, and poetry at a very young age and the rhythms of both are always with him. He fled school in order to obtain a better education and has been an obsessive reader all of his life. He is well travelled with an open minded world view; having worked at everything from ditch digger to secretary to various members of the New Zealand Parliament. He is married with three children and five grandchildren. He has written liner notes and provided photographs for Jazz albums. He also writes a popular Jazz Blog titled JazzLocal32.com

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