Are grown- ups meant to eat dairy food? The best biological answer, as always, is “It depends”. It depends on many factors: whether the milk was produced organically or conventionally; the type of animal ( eg camel, goat, deer, yak, sheep, water buffalo) and if we are talking cows milk, the breed and genetics of…
Merri Bee Organic Farmacy Nursery
We grow organic plants and animals for your permaculture. From house cows to garlic bulbs, we are working on it. As an avid gardener I use to spend a fortune at nurseries but I began to realise that the beautiful and abundant blooms in punnets and pots were achieved by a LOT of chemicals. Some…
Veganism is preventing wide spread adoption of regenerative grazing, the most effective action on climate change.
Just WHAT is going on? My social circle is polarized and the subject is almost banned as too touchy. The nicest people I know have been sucked in by simplistic vegan propaganda.The way out of climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, and growing enough food to nourish a burgeoning population is clear. It’s called regenerative agriculture,…
Bee Free Honey
Michael Gray Griffiths had me on his fabulous show the other night , Cafe Locked Out. We chewed the fat on a range of heavy issues, from Big Pharma Harms like anti- depressant elicited mass shootings and covis era tragedies at the hands of a complicit media and the ….you know, the Safe and Effective….
When you follow soil health principles
Expect results. In late march we made wicking beds out of 2 ex olive drums, filled them with a foot of good compost and planted them with tiny seedlings. 6 weeks later we were harvesting salads and beets. Blessed with some rain in May after literally 7 months without a drop. 2 weeks later this…
Cell Grazing
Cell grazing is the practice of keeping livestock tightly bunched and moving. It is different to the usual practice of “set stocking”, where (say) 20 animals are left in a large paddock all year round. Under set stocking the animals will roam around and eat their favourite plants to death while ignoring less palatable plants,…
Merri Bee Organic Farmacy meets Japanese students
None of the young ones had ever struck a match and after some time a volunteer came forward to have a go.
Rabbit Fricassee
What do you call this love?? RABBIT. How to make Rabbit Fricassee. Or….getting your own back when Peter Rabbit eats all your carrot tops off . This is an example of a GAPS meal suitable for stage one of Intro and all the way to full GAPS. All ingredients must be organic…. this is a…
Save the Yarragadee
“All governments are only interested in centralised control ” Bill Mollison The Water Corporation want to increase the water they pump from the Yarragadee by a factor of 3. They dont know what this will do to shallow aquifers, forest, rivers and surface water. “The Warren Blackwood regional water supply scheme, historically relied on independent…
Raw Honey from Merri Bee Organic Farmacy
There are places in the world where honey is revered for it’s medicinal qualities, and some types particularly so. Carob honey and Jujube or Sidr honey are 2 cases in point. It so happens that both are being produced on a wild and isolated permaculture in Nannup Western Australia. Tough carobs, olives and oaks were…
Raised garden beds: Huglekulture instead of burning fallen trees and branches. Hugelkulture instead of irrigation.
Huglekulture. For if you have piles of dead tree wood lying around and want to clear it away. Hugle kulture is a creative and productive use for it than burning it into ash and particulate matter and toxins in the air. If you prefer to grow food with less irrigation and create shady and sheltered…
It’s Crunch Time.
I recently qualified as a certified GAPS coach, but for 37 years our farm in Nannup has been increasing diversity in the plant, animal and fungal worlds whilst continuously building living soil. We believe health is Mother Nature’s laws obeyed and we champion a healthy environment, freedom and a healthy democracy. We grow organic, raw,…