"Nowadays if Leichhardt's Beech is planted at all it is likely to be as a street tree. Its neat round headed habit, its straight smooth trunk and tidy bole, together with its moderate rate of growth, are positive advantages when it comes to being planted in pavements, close to walls and buildings.

When I see the White Beeches along the boulevards of the Gold Coast, marooned between roaring carriageways, buffeted by fume-laden draughts, far from their in-dwelling invertebrates, their phalangers and parrots, their festoons of vines and garlands of epiphytes, I pray for them to disqualify themselves for such ignominy by dying soon, but instead, dwarfed, filthy and ragged, they suffer on."

Regenerative Agriculture and Soils

3 February 2025 /

Regenerative Agriculture

Imagine a pastoral scene.. Cows grazing on lush green grass, a vigorous vegetable garden, and sugar maple trees dominating a distant hill. Now imagine a feedlot with thousands of cows trampling in the dirt, the smell of rotten eggs wafting from a manure lagoon, and a couple dead cow carcasses waiting to be hauled away. Would you prefer to live next to a pastoral farm practicing regenerative agriculture or a factory farm housing thousands of cows? For most of us, the answer is easy. But the answer is not so easy if the question is: Which system–regenerative agriculture or factory farming–has the greatest potential to reduce farming’s climate footprint?

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Author: Marianne Krasny