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HOPE SPRINGS (TONY COOTE (HE BROUGHT IN BULLDOZER, BUILT BANKS AND…

- - - - BUT THIS CAN WORK ANYWHERE
- - - - AT MULLON FARMERS SET OUT TO PROVE THAT THIS METHOD WORKS
      - PLANTING WEEDS
        
        CAN TO DO IT QUICKLY
      - THEY DONT HAVE TO WAIT FOR RAINFALL ALL THE TIME
      - THEY NEED TO DO THIS OR WILL CONTINUE ERODING AND DESTROYING LANDSCAPE
      - REHYDRATES THE LANDSCAPE
      - GET THE WATER BACK IN THE LAND
      - LIKE GIANT SPONGE
      - CONTRARY TO WHAT EVERYBODY WAS BEING
      - HIS FARM IS GREEN, BUT THE NEIGHBOURING PROPERTY IS BROWN
      - NOW HAS FISH, BIRDS AND FROGS
      - NEIGHBOURS HAVE NOW SIGNED UP THAT NOW GIVE A MODEL FOR THIS TO BE ROLLED OUT ACROSS AUSTRALIA
      - most significant contribution to landscape restoration
      - using weeds when we were spending billions of dollars to get rid of them, he was planting willows, when you get Government grants to take them out