Gordon Gnohm

Experienced professional, passionate about creating compelling content and driving engagement. Talented at crafting dynamic educational stories, informative articles and persuasive copy that resonate and inspires readers. Unique ability to take complex ideas and relay them in simple terms to different audiences. A focus on regenerative agriculture, soil building and passive land hydration to assist all Australians to grow better.

Books that shaped my mindset;

Secrets of the Soil - Tompkins & Bird

Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown

Back from the Brink & Beyond the Brink - Peter Andrews

Call of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massey

I have been specialising in growing food, grass and trees at alt 500-900m since the turn of the century. My greatest accomplishment is assisting clients to grow Avocados in the Canberra Region.

I have also been developing Cold Climate Tomatoes for my wife's business. Raising Tomatoes seedlings for sale with no greenhouse and planting them months earlier than is normally accepted. We can experience -10C on our hill and our Cold Climate Tomatoes can currently survive down to -4C. .

I start all my consultations by asking what the client would like to grow, not what they think they can grow, and we all learn from the process.

I run a experimental hobby farm with my wife, where we use heritage chickens to improve our sodic soil for the past 10years.

We are growing citrus, dragon fruit, and avocado's without constructed protection at 700m above sea level. By simply following Mother Natures lead and mimicking her patterns, we have achieved what no neighbours have. Significant production of food, grass and trees.

We have been breeding Australorp for over a decade for this purpose, and for our own food source. They are fantastic on the fragile land, unlike other breeds we started with. In a few years the can dramatically change the soil profile, from silty white clay to black friable topsoil.

Passive land hydration has been employed around the homestead for multiple functions. 1. to store water in the soil for the plants to easily access. 2. to keep a suitable environment in the soil to host thriving microbe and fungi colonies, 3. to move the nutrient through the soil to reduce surface runoff into nearby streams and rivers and 4. to provide fire protection.

The things we have learnt on our little experiment has been mind blowing, and it has been a pleasure to share the knowledge through my designs and writings. The best part is eating nutrient dense food fresh from our garden where locals told me I couldnt.