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- Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:35 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: African Love Grass -any sollutions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 34865
Julian et al As someone who used to mow lawns for a living, and having to catch and remove said grass clippings, now that I only have to mow my own and encouraged by those here, I leave it. Guess what?! The bloody grass underneath keeps coming up! ;-) Even when the grass had invaded my flower beds, ...
- Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:58 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4184
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:27 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Flat land
- Replies: 48
- Views: 65414
Hello Brett It's dead simple. You just get yourself a few sheep and wait for the Government to declare your property under the Native Vegetation Management Act. Soon your property will be overrun with native vegetation and there wont be any room for a sheep to stand! ;-) Seriously, just a thought, h...
- Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:35 am
- Forum: Questions about the book, 'Back from the Brink'
- Topic: Burning vegetation to lessen fire risk
- Replies: 15
- Views: 27539
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:41 pm
- Forum: Questions about the book, 'Back from the Brink'
- Topic: Burning vegetation to lessen fire risk
- Replies: 15
- Views: 27539
On a similar, but slightly different tangent, after fruitlessly waiting for my local council to replace my street tree that fell down a couple of years ago I planted a Nothofagus cunninghamii out the front. After surviving the hot summer weather, it succumbed to our very changeable hail and sun rece...
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:03 pm
- Forum: Carbon Debate
- Topic: Lord Monckton stirs it up.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10689
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:55 pm
- Forum: Carbon Debate
- Topic: Lord Monckton stirs it up.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10689
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:48 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Lucky No 500.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11413
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:02 am
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Stealing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12180
Stealing
Perhaps our West Australian members will have some local knowledge of this and would like to comment?
http://sppiblog.org/news/environmental- ... e-citizens
http://sppiblog.org/news/environmental- ... e-citizens
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:35 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Toodyay
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4546
Toodyay
Here's hoping all our members in WA are not being effected by the bushfires
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:34 am
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Abbott vs Rudd in Copenhagen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7047
PETER SPENCER IS DYING! Peter Spencer's four children have flown home to 'Saarahnlee' the families 20,000 acre farm in the Monaro district of New South Wales. The 2005 UNFCCC report states that Australia needed 88.2 million metric tonnes of carbon to meet its treaty obligations, 87.5 million of thi...
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:52 pm
- Forum: Something to give you a smile or laugh!!
- Topic: My new truck
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5555
My new truck
MY NEW TRUCK I bought a new Toyota Landcruiser and returned to the dealer yesterday because I couldn't get the radio to work. The salesman explained that the radio was voice activated. 'Nelson,' the salesman said to the radio. The radio replied, 'Ricky or Willie?' 'Willie!' he continued and 'On The ...
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:31 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Jetropha
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3965
Here is an interesting article on the growing and using of Jatropha curcas
http://globalfarmer.com.au/content/view/77/1/[url][/url]
http://globalfarmer.com.au/content/view/77/1/[url][/url]
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:06 am
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Eucalypts in north Viet Nam, please help
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15660
Hello Col. Goats= Maggots eating the flesh off the land. I like that quote from the Permaculture video 'Greening the Desert! Egypt and Libya used to be the granary of the Roman Empire, wouldn't think so now would you? That deforestation will get you every time. I'm sure you have read in Peter's book...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Eucalypts in north Viet Nam, please help
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15660
Biodiversity? I wonder if the ancient Mesopotamians would be allowed nowdays to displace the rest of the native vegetation to plant their wheat crops in the 'Fertile Crescent ? :lol: Probably the project wouldn't get off the ground, too many government forms to fill in! Probably wouldn't pass the 'E...