Tim King

I have recently bought 20acres in Bendigo, Victoria, Aus.

The property has a seasonal creek running through the middle of it, which probably used to have a lot more water running through it before everyone put in a dam and took a bite. Currently my property has a small dam on the creek, and has been pretty thoroughly cleared. The creek itself has virtually no shade, some moderate erosion, and no ecology. We get just under 400mm of rain yearly on average.

I'm looking for some suggestions as to how to remediate the creek. I would like to keep the plantings as native as possible and create as many habitats as possible.

Hi,

I'm in the process of putting together a business plan to get a loan in order to buy my first property.
I'm looking at 50-100acres in Victoria, Australia. Which is zone 9, where I'm looking is between 800-1000mm of water per year.

The intention of the property is to set it out in 2-5 acre blocks with a perennial support system bordering the blocks. This would include bees.
Each block will be set out in a traditional mono-culture layout intended for mechanized harvest.

I have two questions-:

1) In order to minimize costs in the short term and long run, I'm trying to ensure the crops I plant will share harvesters. So far I have
   -Nut finger roller
           -Hazelnuts + Truffles (Truffles harvested by hand)
           -Black Walnuts (to be canopy layer in perennial system)
           -Other nuts
   -Umbrella shaker
           -Olives
           -Cherries
    What other crops could I look at that would share harvesters

2) Given I'm setting the farm as perennial mono-culture blocks, how many crops do I need to see a benefit? I have no intention of spray and I want to bring in as little fert as possible by creating my own.