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Regenerative farming Holistic Pastoral is working to transform the landscape Ĺ°
His mother was from a farming family who would buy stock from Queensland and drove it down to New South Wales, farming on the roads as they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own their own farm. Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own childhood was one of shearing and hay carting. Aldona had grown up in the Blue Mountains. Her parents were Polish immigrants and had been born in a displaced persons camp in Poland, before moving to Australia. 6HOI VXIo FLHQW WKH\ OLYHG LQ D then-rural part of Western Sydney, with the Blue Mountainsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bush becoming Aldonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground. It was in the Blue Mountains that Daniel and Aldona met, with Daniel working as the bushwalking guide on a hike that Aldona took. <HDUV ODWHU WKH\ ZRXOG o QG themselves in Sydney with a young family, but with a yearning to get out of the city. Daniel applied for numerous jobs, and it was a job as an outdoor education teacher at the Rubicon Outdoor Centre that tempted the Keltons south.
By EMMA OLIVER DANIELl Kelton of Alexandraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holistic Pastoral wants to see the land he is farming transformed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;waist high grass, wet all year round despite ever-increasing drynessâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to experiment with how , FDQ LQp XHQFH WKH ORFDO FOLPDWH what we can change as a community with this system of regenerative farming.â&#x20AC;? Not only does Daniel believe that regenerative farming can arrest global warming on a local scale, he also believes that the system makes good business sense and encourages other farmers to explore it. Four years ago, Daniel and his partner, Aldona Baranowski, moved to Alexandra from Sydney. Daniel had grown up in country New South Wales, in the central west. His family was of a diverse background with Aboriginal, English and Irish ancestors, and an intriguing history in lighthouse keeping, stock work and orchards. Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was a jack-of-all WUDGHV ZKR VSHQW D VLJQLo FDQW SDUW of his life as a shearer in New South Wales and Western Australia.
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