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by Adrian
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...
by Adrian
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 ...
by Adrian
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...
by Adrian
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...
by Adrian
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 ...
by Adrian
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 ...
by Adrian
Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:14 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: NSF Principles
Replies: 3
Views: 5856

Thanks for the link Duane :)
by Adrian
Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:10 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: willow alternatives
Replies: 60
Views: 61896

Northern Victoria Shepparton Area.
by Adrian
Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:51 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: willow alternatives
Replies: 60
Views: 61896

Just a quick question how would these trees handle growing in sandy soils?
by Adrian
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...
by Adrian
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

As Peter has in the past and will do in the future, the only way NSF will get its credit is by the people that do not belive in his ways is asking him to prove each and every point.