Category: Environment
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…
Perennial Pasture establishment
It’s time to think about the coming wet season, and growing a prairie. Why? Because prairies actually sequester more carbon than forests. Both are sorely needed and we humans must grow them to replace what we have destroyed and rebuild our soil resource, or go the way of the White Pointer. Prairies are amazingly diverse….
Merri Bee Farmacy’s Stew and Bee recognised as Environmental Champions!
The Conservation Council of Western Australia ( CCWA) is the state’s peak environmental group representing more than one hundred Member Groups throughout the state, as well as tens of thousands of individuals interested in protecting our environment in many ways…. from promoting renewable energy to the protection of native bushland and wildlife. CCWA Director Piers…
Multi Species pasture establishment and/or cover crop service
In late 2018 we purchased a small seeder which makes several 1 inch wide furrows in a paddock, deposits seed or seed mix in the furrow, covers and rolls in one pass. We then added a compost extract injection system to apply good biology to the soil around the seed. The beauty of the seeder…
Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt ….Glyphosate is even worse than we thought
Dr Dietrich Klinghardt has treated 50,000 patients in Germany and the United States. He is a trail blazer in the health word and Jeffery Smith introduced him as a “Demi -God” because at many health conferences the queues go out the door as people line up to hear the latest amazing therapies constantly being unearthed…
Healing from GMOS and Round Up
I just purchased the recordings of Jeffery Smith’s Healing from GMOs and Round Up. The 20 presenters and Jeffery as always, were excellent! So leading edge! As the time for purchasing the series has elapsed, thought I would record the highlights , so please read on and share these facts widely. Larry Bohlen is a rocket scientist, a NASA engineer…
Bio Char Bubble burst!
Well it is time someone came out and said it: “Bloody bio char !” There , I said it. Don’t like to quash enthusiasm, don’t like to offend friends who love the idea of bio char, but I don’t think much of bio char. It has never made sense to me to burn wood that…