Peter Andrews (born 1940) is an Australian racehorse breeder and grazier from Bylong in the
Upper Hunter
The Upper Hunter Shire is a local government area in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in May 2004 from the Scone Shire and parts of Murrurundi and Merriwa shires.
The Mayor of the Upper Hunter Shir ...
Valley of
New South Wales
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. He is known for his pioneering work in landscape regeneration.
Agricultural pioneer
Andrews is the inventor of the
Natural Sequence Farming
Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) is a method of landscape regeneration devised by the Australian farmer, Peter Andrews (agricultural pioneer), Peter Andrews, in the 1970s.
The method involves implementing major earthworks on a given area of land th ...
method. He is acknowledged as having converted his degraded high-
salinity
Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensionless and equal ...
land at
Tarwyn Park into a fertile, drought-resistant estate. His techniques run counter to prevailing accepted practices, and for 30 years his techniques were rejected by government authorities.
Peter Andrews is the author of a best-selling book on his methods, entitled ''Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape can be Saved.'' He also has written a book called ''Beyond the Brink'' that further explains his theories about water movement in the Australian landscape with the additional subjects of global warming and GMO usage and how this affects soil and the environment.
See also
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Bill Mollison
Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice o ...
co-creator for the
permaculture
Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking. It applies these principle ...
design system
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P. A. Yeomans creator of the
keyline design
Keyline design is a landscaping technique of maximizing the beneficial use of the water resources of a tract of land. The "keyline" is a specific topographic feature related to the natural flow of water on the tract. Keyline design is a system o ...
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Allan Savory
Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935) is a Zimbabwean livestock farmer and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources.
Savory advocates ...
Rotational grazing pioneer
References
External links
Peter Andrews’ Official WebsiteNatural Sequence Farming Official WebsiteReview of 'Back from the Brink'tarwynpark.com
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Living people
People from New South Wales
1940 births