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- Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:41 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Caltrop - Cathead -Bindii
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29534
Just wondering if there is other plants that will out compete the bindii in the same situation :?: I was walking around the sheds of the piggery and noticed that the first of the plants have sprouted. :o The soils are very light so the water from rain soaks straight though after the winter grasses h...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:23 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61896
Do any of these trees pose any threat to cattle? As we would be using the trees in places where cattle can get shade through the hot summers afternoon. And also through winter for feeding hay and straw. Thinking that by making alot of holding cells on top of the sand hills, with one or two paddocks ...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:17 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61896
When i do plant them i will be using 44 gallon drums cut in half to place around them to keep them rabbits away from the fresh trucks of the trees at first. I have found that buy slicing the half drum up one side and then tying with a piece of wire, you dont have the problem of removing the guard on...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:50 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61896
Thankyou to both Shirley and Duane for your useful tips. I relaised that they do grow around my area as we have them at the schools and around town. I was thinking of digging a base out for where these trees will be planted and filling the holes up with pig waste, using the soil out of the hole to b...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:56 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Low Rainfall Areas
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6099
Greg i understand what your talking about in the rain shadow. I live about 30km from where two rivers meet in my west direction, and there has been plenty of times where we see the rain come and then split just before us as if it follows the rivers. But by reading Peters books i have found out that ...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:34 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: the future of slashing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6976
I have looked into different ways of making fuel go further and here are a few that i have come across. Gas mixed with diesel as a twin fuel setup not a dual fuel, which makes more horsepower then inturn uses less fuel for same horsepower. One that i will be trying out is making hydrogen from water ...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: NSF Principles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5856
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:10 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61896
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:51 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: willow alternatives
- Replies: 60
- Views: 61896
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:24 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Working with Pigs to upgrade your land.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23500
Working with Pigs to upgrade your land.
I have been on and off the land all my life, firstly as a child living on a dairy farm for 9 years, and now working with pigs and cattle on bosses farm. I first told my boss about Peter after reading BFTB at first he thought he was mad about having weeds. So i gave him the book to read and said have...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
- Topic: PM Rudds Office "Never heard of NSF and Peter Andrews
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10378