Carbon Economy

The Artist Farmer Scientist newspaper has arrived!

The Artist Farmer Scientist newspaper has arrived!

It’s 56 pages long, raw and wriggling, and it has a free pull-out poster. We have finally published the newspaper that tells the story of ‘An artist, a farmer and a scientist walk into a bar’, and we’d love to share it with you.

The art of soil carbon sequestration

The art of soil carbon sequestration

Wouldn’t we all wish to have a pilot license at the age of 87 and be inventing remarkably useful things. Meet the indomitable Allan Yeomans and hear about Lucas’s journey into soil carbon sequestration toolmaking in our latest video.

Dirt → soil → earth: the art of building life.

Dirt → soil → earth: the art of building life.

KSCA member Lucas Ihlein was recently invited to contribute a short essay about soil for Kaldor Public Art Projects. The essay has been published in an education resource for school students about artist Asad Rasa, who created a 300 tonne soil installation in Sydney's Carriageworks in May 2019..

Field Trip to the Olsen family Farm

Field Trip to the Olsen family Farm

“Salad-bowl” pasture anyone? Read about the Hallora Farm tour and soil sample demo in this blog, but you can also be part of conversation with the farmers Niels and Maja Olsen, Lucas, Allan Yeomans, Dru Marsh and Loisa Kiely from Carbon Farmers of Australia at Monash University Art Museum tomorrow, March 23, 2-4pm. Link to details is in the blog!

Yeomans Carbon Still on show in Melbourne!

Yeomans Carbon Still on show in Melbourne!

What if farmers were paid to adopt farming methods that ensured that the carbon that is causing trouble in our atmosphere was sequestered in their soils?  This tantalising possibility is explored in Lucas Ihlein's collaborative project with Allan Yeomans called 'Baking Earth: Soil and the Carbon Economy', which is currently part of an exhibition in Melbourne.

Baking Dirt: Soil and the Carbon Economy

Lucas Ihlein reports back from his visit to Allan Yeomans’ workshop on the Gold Coast. Here he got to witness how Allan’s amazing invention to measure carbon content in soil actually functions. It involved some serious baking…