But, unlike other farms in the region, there’s water flowing through the creek — crystal clear water, good enough to drink.
Australian Story’s 2005 episode on Mr Andrews and Tarwyn Park, the Hunter Valley property where he pioneered his controversial land regenerating system known as natural sequence farming, was one of the program’s most popular ever.
He travels the country advising landholders, and Mr Coote ensured ongoing scientific research and lobbying for natural sequence farming through his legacy, The Mulloon Institute.
Mr Coote could see the genius behind his method of reading the landscape and tapping into the land’s natural system of self-rehydration.
We know our bodies cannot work unless they’re hydrated, we know plants and animals can’t work unless they are hydrated.
"All we’ve done is reproduced what was a natural process in Australia’s landscapes," Mr Andrews says.
"We’ve been able to get water into the floodplains which sustains the landscape in a drought."
Thriving during drought Farmers across the eastern seaboard are suffering through a drought that some consider the worst in living memory.
"The soil is alive," says The Mulloon Institute’s Peter Hazell.
A nation that looks after its soil, looks after itself," he said.