Equine Permaculture Archives - Horses and People

Willinga Park Bushfire: Planning and Preparation Paid Off

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Feb 7, 2022 | Equine Permaculture, Facility Design, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Property Management | 0 |

A decade of considered bushfire planning and horse property maintenance helped save an entire...

Encouraging Dung Beetles on Horse Properties

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Oct 27, 2020 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

Encouraging dung beetles in horse properties: Dung beetles are very cool creatures! They eat and...

When the Drought Breaks… Hold Your Horses!

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Jan 21, 2020 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

Horse pastures drought recovery After yet another dry and hot year in Australia, most horse owners...

Building Resilience and Drought-proofing Your Horse Property

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | May 1, 2019 | Equine Permaculture, Facility Design, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management, Property & Pasture | 0 |

Drought-proofing horse properties. Australia is a country in the grip of extreme weather bingo....

All about Soil. Part 4, Lab soil tests

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | May 30, 2018 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

Laboratory soil tests. In this exclusive Equine Permaculture series, we have been ‘digging deeper...

All about Soil. Part 3, DIY soil tests

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Mar 26, 2018 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

DIY Soil Tests. In this Equine Permaculture series, we ‘dig deeper into soils’ and, to date, we...

All About Soil. Part 2, The soil food web

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Feb 28, 2018 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

In this Equine Permaculture series, we ‘dig deeper into soils’ and explore what soils are, how...

All About Soil. Part 1, Facts about soil

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Jan 23, 2018 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

Facts about Soil. In this Equine Permaculture series, All About Soils, we ‘dig deeper into soils’...

Managing Pastures for Soil Health – Part 2

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Nov 22, 2017 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

Managing pastures for soil health, Keyline design. As horse owners, we care for large herbivores...

Managing Pastures for Soil Health – Part 1

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Oct 25, 2017 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

As horse owners, we care for large herbivors and, in order to support them with the food they are...

How to Compost Horse Manure

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Jun 15, 2017 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG, Pasture Management | 0 |

If you manage a property and horses, you would most likely have encountered pasture and land...

Equine Permaculture Design: Part 7 Make it happen

by Mariette van den Berg, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), RAnNutr | Dec 1, 2016 | Equine Permaculture, MARIETTE VAN DEN BERG | 0 |

Equine Permaculture in action. Following on from previous articles, in Part 7 of this exclusive...

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