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  • From: Darren Doherty <darren@permaculture.biz>
  • To: Permaculture List <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, "SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU" <SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU>
  • Subject: [permaculture] P.A. Yeomans 'Yobarnie' Update
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:01:56 +1100

Forwarded from Sydney Food Fairness Alliance...

Yeomans' unique, world-class Keyline (landscape and dam) farming

SFFA members may be interested in reading the following draft Press Release
re planned development on the former Yeomans property at North Richmond.
There may be time to make a submission to Hawkesbury Council to protect the
site for its environmental, scenic, cultural heritage values to preserve the
place as a model water conservation farm/landscape of national and
international significance.


PRESS RELEASE* – TIME TO SAVE YEOMANS' KEYLINE FARM – *PRESS RELEASE


Yeomans' unique, world-class Keyline (landscape and dam) farming system is
currently under major threat by a proposed housing development (at 108 Grose
Vale Road) in North Richmond.

The recently formed 'North Richmond and Districts Community Action
Association' (NRDCAA) would like to inform our community, and beyond, that
developers have applied (proposal DA0852/08) to build a Seniors Living
Complex and nearly 2,000 houses, on medium density housing lots, on this
unique property. They plan to bulldoze two of the original Keyline dams,
which currently collect excess water (preventing flooding), and make it
available for the maintenance of a healthy landscape and river system, and
for local fire control and prevention.

Council were briefed on the second stage of this proposal in November 2008.
This development would require the land to be rezoned; thereby destroying
what should rightfully be conserved as a National Heritage site.

If we don't address this problem now by way of the HCC "Community Strategic
Plan", this invaluable rural amenity could be lost forever. Let's not have
another Pitt Town or Rouse Hill type over-development within our area. It
would be a major catastrophe, not only for our municipality, but also for
Australia and the world, if this proposal were to be approved.

Yobarnie, the site of Yeomans' [carbon] farming Keyline System, was
established in the 1940s and '50s. At that time Yeomans led the world in
designing landscapes that can capture carbon dioxide (more effectively than
by planting trees – thereby effectively addressing the climate change
challenge), prevent flooding and fire, create productive soils (much faster
than had ever been achieved before: an inch of topsoil in three years;
normally it takes over 1,000 years), and conserve biodiversity.

Australia, in having access to this working model of genuinely sustainable
farm and landscape design and management, is in a more favourable position
than the rest of the world, as we all face the challenges of climate change
and water related crises. BUT, the value of this asset needs to be
recognised, conserved, learned from, and the model further developed.

If this unique beacon of hope for the future is bulldozed and built over,
Australia, and the rest of the world, will have lost its oldest and most
important model of sustainable landscape and farm design and management.

Yeomans' Keyline System provided part of the inspiration and guidance for
the subsequent development of Permaculture, which is increasingly being
recognised as one of the most sustainable approaches to food and renewable
energy production throughout the world.

More recently, Yeomans' discoveries have been tested favourably in Marin
County by researchers at the University of California Berkeley, in a project
to capture carbon in ranch-land soils.

Given that Yeomans contributed more to solving our climate, water and fire
problems than any other farmer, it would seem important to our national
heritage that the farms on which he developed his Keyline system should be
maintained as a National Heritage site for all present and future
generations. If properly managed, this could also be expected to have huge
tourism value, and the local environment will be able to continue to benefit
from the environmental protection services provided by the property,
including preventing pollutants seeping into the Hawkesbury River.

************************************************************************************************************

For further information please contact 0421985162 - 16 February, 2009



Time to act. - Issued on Behalf of the North Richmond & District Community
Action Association.



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