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by Angela Helleren
Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:52 am
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Food Sovereignty
Replies: 3
Views: 22506

Re: Food Sovereignty

Matto - I hope everyone here has the opportunity to watch the documentary Food Inc. Duane - It sounds like Mike Alexander and his wife are doing a great job planting out the seeds of Peter's wisdom! :D Over the past few weeks we have heard a lot about the new Super tax on mining profits... and accom...
by Angela Helleren
Fri May 07, 2010 4:48 am
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Flat land
Replies: 48
Views: 65446

Hi Shirley and Brett. Here's an article I happened across today that may be of interest to you both. http://sres-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/examples/EPPreports/bruce/Terrainflat.html I had been reading about the Pyramid Hill Salt Mining (farming?) and the solar energy their salt ponds are produ...
by Angela Helleren
Sat May 01, 2010 3:35 am
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Flat land
Replies: 48
Views: 65446

Brett, I was looking up your region and came across several references to the Native White Cypress Pine and Buloke http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=195 http://www.conifers.org/cu/call/glaucophylla.htm http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/tsday08-bulo...
by Angela Helleren
Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:02 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: Flat land
Replies: 48
Views: 65446

Hi Brett, Just a thought, though I know I'm quite a few seeds short on farm /horticulture practises.... :) Have you considered planting your trees in several clusters nearer the centre of the paddocks and working your way out toward the boundaries over time. Perhaps use some bales of hay stacked or ...
by Angela Helleren
Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:54 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: Seed Hunter
Replies: 2
Views: 4586

You can find out about the issues presented in Food Inc. and watch a trailer at

http://www.foodincmovie.com/index.php :wink:
by Angela Helleren
Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:24 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: Seed Hunter
Replies: 2
Views: 4586

Seed Hunter

Must see.... Seed Hunter For all and especially our Wheat farmers who missed this very interesting programme you can download the 'Seed Hunter' at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/futuremakers/ep3/ Shown on ABC after midnight when most were asleep. The World Seed Bank and the peopl...
by Angela Helleren
Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:54 pm
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: ITS ALMOST TIME TO SWITCH OUT THE LIGHTS !
Replies: 14
Views: 15910

Col On this forum I have never stated once that we do not have GW or CC. What I have said is that CO2 is not the cause of either. Anthropogenic changes over centuries have seen the wholesale clearing of vegetation from all continents. The position on GW and CC that we have taken is that the disrupt...
by Angela Helleren
Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:25 pm
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: ITS ALMOST TIME TO SWITCH OUT THE LIGHTS !
Replies: 14
Views: 15910

Thanks for sharing the excellent articles duane and CJW.

Both worth reading over again!
This grandmother, also learned a new word and it's meaning.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthropogenic

–adjective
caused or produced by humans: anthropogenic air pollution.
by Angela Helleren
Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:18 am
Forum: Carbon Debate
Topic: Carbon Dioxide: Put Simply: It's all B.S.!!!
Replies: 19
Views: 31630

Duane, NSF also has it's share of sceptics... even after all the scientific studies. COAL- Nature's fine work over millions of years... unearthed and burned faster than nature can now keep up with! Had we acted ten years ago on global warming, costs (as with the cost of everything else) would have b...
by Angela Helleren
Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:34 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: MURRAY DARLING BASIN (MDB) : MOSTLY DECEPTIVE BULLDUST
Replies: 3
Views: 8374

Not so sure on Paul Sheehan's last comment...having read the article on Goldman Sachs.
Malcolm Turnbull was an investment banker in their stable.
Isn't Heffernan a Climate Change Sceptic? His behaviour in the Senate this week was appalling.
by Angela Helleren
Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:24 am
Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
Topic: Pressures to overproduce
Replies: 9
Views: 13588

Not surprising really Jenni. Ag companies, like in any other industry, spend their advertising dollars where they feel they will get the most return through sales of the product. Magazines are businesses that depend on the advertising dollar. Articles that support the interest of their advertisers a...
by Angela Helleren
Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:07 pm
Forum: Links that may interest friends of NSF
Topic: Tonight's Australian Story on ABC
Replies: 0
Views: 6170

Tonight's Australian Story on ABC

8.00pm tonight! Dr Maarten 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,...
by Angela Helleren
Tue May 19, 2009 4:30 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: THE IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF THE GREAT MURRAY DARLING!!
Replies: 12
Views: 14099

For those who didn't catch ABC 7.30 Report last night - An update on Lake Eyre.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2574064.htm
by Angela Helleren
Sat May 16, 2009 3:31 am
Forum: Links that may interest friends of NSF
Topic: Magnetic Water
Replies: 0
Views: 5943

Magnetic Water

I came across this site http://www.magneticwater.net.au/Testimonials/index.php while searching information on magnets for a different purpose. I wouldn't know how genuine the claims are but going by the testimonials there may be something to it and possibly worth looking into. It's the first I've he...
by Angela Helleren
Thu May 07, 2009 9:56 am
Forum: Information for the Day
Topic: Congratulations to Peter Andrews for having written BFTB
Replies: 3
Views: 5626

Correction on previous post. The Uranium mine in the Catalyst Programme was actually the Beverly Mine. - http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1926042.htm But the Google Earth images from Olympic Dam are concerning. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2558284.htm Peter featured on Catal...