Natural Sequence Farming

Hello All If Melia azederach is a deciduous tree that has pinnate leaves and a very nice fragrant pink/white pea flower, we have it growing in profusion as a street tree here in my local area in Melbourne? I asked the localcouncil workers what they were recently and they told me they were Melia's Ha...

The forests division of the Victorian DSE has two napalm droppers. These are used after a coupe is logged to burn off the slash and make a seed bed so it can be re-seeded(they use a machine like a flying pepper pot and; yes Dorothy all coupes are re-seeded after they have been logged!) All this vege...

In the Victorian newspapers this week there was a story about the government lining the water channels with polythene film to stop seepage. I would have thought seepage is what you want, to get more water into the soil. I thought a better solution would be to cover the open channels with something l...

Hello fearghas
Yes 'State of Fear' is a work of fiction, but Michael Chritchton was also a medical doctor and he included checkable scientific references to all he points he made in his book.

Cheers

Col.

Read on a WA Gov't website the other day how Jetropha was an invasive weed and to be shot on site! Also recently there was a guy on the ABC's 'The Inventors' who had come up with a small distillation plant to make bio-diesel that was suitable for small villages in the third world. (Or why not a co-o...

G'day Just a question. How do hedges overcome allelopathy? Also we know that commercial chemical fertilizers do more harm than good by upset the biology of the soil, but what about commercial peletized manures such as 'Dynamic Lifter' for those of us who don't have access to the real thing? I am goi...

G'day All Dissapointed that no-one had a go at the question! Here's the answer Old man Furphy was a very devout methodist so he had this written on the ends of his water carts 'Whisky and Wine are works of the devil, but Water is the gift of the Lord' He knew that if he wrote it in English everyone ...

I have been using my lawn clippings, amongst other things, as mulch on my garden beds. I have been particularly putting them on the high part of the garden and letting the natural limnology do the rest. Also I bought a small electric shredder. Would have of course prefered a larger petrol powered on...

Dear R&J My own personal experience with Salix is having three mature trees in a 1/4 acre backyard in Melbourne. I guess what we have to do is the old thing about telling the difference between an orange and a lemon? ...Suck it and see! If I am right in my readings of Peter's books its that willows ...

Duane A good use for willows. Take a piece of Salix alba var caerulia, fashion it into a cricket bat. I know it will be a bit light for what we want to do. Take said bat to Canberra and beat pollies severely over the head!! :lol: I saw a documentary on the TV, I think it was based in Switzerland, th...

Just been reading some government websites detailing how BAD willows are. Cause erosion, kill wildlife, water usage etc. Funny thing, a few months ago there was a show on the TV about them being used in europe for riparian revegatation. Perhaps some of you experts could tell me, do we have different...

Hello Gavan Some good books to read are; 'The Deniers' and 'Unstoppable Global Warming'. I had to get both of them via Amazon as I don't believe they have been released in Australia. In my mind they both convincingly shoot down the theory of human induced, CO2 driven global warming. :roll: That is n...

It is announced in the daily newspaper in Melbourne today that the Department of Primary Industry is asking for expressions of interest for the sale of two of its reseaarch stations. The dairy research station at Kyabram and the grains research station at Walpeup. You would think that in the current...

You only have to see that slideshow about "Greening the Desert" that is on the 'Permaculture' website, there is a link on our forum somewhere, to see what could be done, instead of draining all the water away. ****************************************** All the worlds problems can be solved in a gard...

Aaahh Duane so it is...Veni, Vidi, Vermiculatum!