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Where Len?
Len: Hope you're still on the land and thriving. biodyne |
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yes still here biodyne,
and how are you? On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:16:15 -0400, wrote: Len: Hope you're still on the land and thriving. biodyne With peace and brightest of blessings, len -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1 |
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 04:00:51 +1000, gardenlen
wrote: yes still here biodyne, and how are you? Doing well. Have made great advances with my market mini-farm. I will post pix before too long so you can see what I've been up to - lots of cow manure, quarry rock dusts and rotted sileage has been put onto beds tilled and hilled with some amazing equipment. I now have 3 Yeomans plows soon to be mounted on a straight single toolbar for further bed tilthing. Hope you and Bev have decided to remain country-dwellers. Is your website (one of the best) still up? Cheers to Pete & worms and Janet & B&B. I see alt.pc is getting more widespread use by nonspammrs. Maybe we can get some good discussion going. biodyne |
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:28:51 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote: Until your message to len, I hadn't seen any posts at all here, for a long time Well, its the only permaculture newsgroup. May as well use it. Speaking of b&b's, have you considered growing food for the meals you serve on the property? Often this is a good way to encourage customers who will see garden tours as ecotourism, especially if you have diverse activities, i.e. goats, chickens, maybe pigs. Good opportunity to make it a demo permaculture site. Graham Burnett might help you with this. Thse kinds of business ventures are becoming popular here in the US and we need more. It makes keeping open country in greenspace and farming popular and encourages local officials to pass regulations favorable to rural enterprises and unfavorable to commercial-industrial uses and real estate developments. |
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In article ,
Janet Baraclough wrote: However, I do make a point of using (and telling them it is) the top-quality food produced on the island ; sausages and black pudding made by my butcher, island milk from grassfed cows, freerange eggs, local honey, jam and marmalade, Scottish bacon and porridge oats, John's home made bread. drool I know someone who runs a B&B on the Isle of Skye too, so that's two places I'll book when we do our World Tour (TM). Probably in about 2030... Have been busy with my own free-range baby (Matthew was born on the 29th of May) and rscuing the vegie patch from weds by laying down newspaper and mulch. I have some seedlings coming along nicely at present but not much actually in the garden. If Switzerland could post us some rain...? Have bought some weeper hose as I am *not* going to be hand-hosing the vegies over summer! It will be interesting to see what water restrictions we have by then. (I live in Australia's largest city -- 4 million people -- and our water supply is not keeping up with demand.) The state govt has decided that a desalination plant is a much better idea than recycling water from sewage or managing demand. So we'll continue to pump untreated sewage out to sea, then pump in the sea-water and use an incredibly energy-intensive system to make fresh water out of it. sigh -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
... The state govt has decided that a desalination plant is a much better idea than recycling water from sewage or managing demand. So we'll continue to pump untreated sewage out to sea, then pump in the sea-water and use an incredibly energy-intensive system to make fresh water out of it. sigh For more on this subject, if you have broadband you can watch a documentary that played on 4 Corners (a very reputable investigative programme on the Aussie ABC) in February this year. I was a bit shocked at the idea of NSW importing water from Tassie as our lakes, etc. are at their lowest, too. You'll find it on this link http://abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20050209/ Judanne |