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- Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:44 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Parramatta Grass
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15496
Re: Parramatta Grass
This is an old thread, but it comes up early in a Google search, so I thought I'd share that a friend of mine has set up a proper lab for propagating a fungus (Nigrospora oryzae) that helps crown rot form in Giant Parramatta Grass, and he's selling spores. I don't benefit from any sales. I'm just ex...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:04 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Stealing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12264
Alarming indeed. I think all Australian landholders should be on 'red alert' as the various coming crises affect the food supply. I believe government will take over properties of any useful size to force farmers to produce in ways the government deems necessary to ease the crisis. "Take over" can b...
- Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:23 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: All ideas for contour lines!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 46457
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:06 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Peter's experience - cropping/grazing?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7046
Peter's experience - cropping/grazing?
Out of curiousity, does Peter's experience include crops or meat animals? I can't remember from the book. Some local farmers were dismissing his advice based on him being a 'horse person' and not a cropper, grazier or market gardener...
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:05 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Does Natural Sequence also equate to Natural Progression?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10919
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61772
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:38 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Bushfires in Victoria: Natural sequence hydrology approach
- Replies: 40
- Views: 43787
jenni - what a fascinating experiment and results. I'm very dubious of this idea that all we need to do is improve the soil and the "good guys" win. Some weeds seem to inhabit undamaged fertile soils... But your post certainly gives hope to that exciting idea. What books informed your strategy? A fe...
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:22 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Small Farms Magazine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5601
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:54 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: What type of seed?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6603
I've had good luck getting ryegrass to germinate this winter on bare, pugged mud. Might be a little late for it though. If I were you I'd either: 1) Ring your local DPI and get a pasture expert to make recommendations. or 2) Just go to your local produce store and get a mix, emphasising what's cheap...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:53 pm
- Forum: Carbon Debate
- Topic: Carbon Dioxide: Put Simply: It's all B.S.!!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31862
By and large we 'guilty humans' are not responsible for the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. Dude, nobody's asking you to feel guilty. Your feelings don't have anything to do with facts. You're letting your hopes driving your view of facts. You also twisted what I said around. I said nothing about l...
- Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:04 pm
- Forum: Carbon Debate
- Topic: Carbon Dioxide: Put Simply: It's all B.S.!!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31862
Apples and oranges. Plants pull the CO2 from the atmosphere, and cows eat those but belch out something different - methane - which is over 20x more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere.[1] Also, CO2 may be a small percentage of the atmosphere (0.045%), but that doesn't matter if its influen...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: Questions about the book, 'Back from the Brink'
- Topic: rabbits, brambles, hills and alternatives
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13191
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: NSF is working in WA
- Replies: 142
- Views: 183282
Re: The plan so far.
WOW. what tools did you use to do that?Ian James wrote:We just finished planting 83 000 trees
what about wallabies?organise a baiting program to get the rabbit colonies along the creek sorted so the trees don't get eaten.
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:09 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Holstic Management;Cell Grazing;Rotational Grazing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26978
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:01 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Flat land
- Replies: 48
- Views: 65863
Shirley, that was such an informative post I reformatted it so its more readable for everybody. Hope you don't mind. Can I ask how you gained such an encyclopedic knowledge of natives? Also, how many of those you listed would be happy in Mid-North Coast of NSW (I know Eleocarpus reticulatus and Pitt...