via Dr ALISON BLEANEY
Below is the link for Australian story and it features Dr Maarten Stapper.
Dr Stapper is a man with some fascinating ideas on how to manage our land better.
He is unconventional, stubborn and difficult. Not even a near-fatal car accident could slow him down in his mission to feed the world using less chemicals.
As an advocate for biological farming, Dr Stapper has paid a high price for promoting a greener, cleaner way to grow food. Originally a CSIRO scientist, he left when it became clear his views on biological farming were incompatible with his employer.
Today, he travels the country to educate farmers on how to use less chemicals in their soil and on their crops.
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2007/s2582298.htm
Dr Stapper would be of much value in Tasmania.
