Recovery from the soil upwards
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What can we learn about bushfires and the management of our land from our IndigenousĀ  people, who have managed bushfire with bespoke methodology for 40,000 years? Our agriminder Soil Scientist Phillip Mulvey returns to discuss the use of fire as a land management technique in Australia with host Chris Russell, what effect the 2020 bushfires have had on our soil andĀ  the opportunity we have to start again, collaboratively, as the soils have effectively been sterilised by fire.
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