Hi Ramon, Glad to hear you're rooster is better. One set of neighbours is fine - they didn't even know we had chooks until I gave them some...
Hi Ray, I hate to admit it, but I've thrown chicken scraps (raw and cooked) to my chooks after big parties. Nothing happened to them. To feed...
Our chookies' egg yolks are getting paler. Do they need more leafy greens or what? They eat kitchen scraps (mainly fruit) and layer pellets. They...
Hi Ramon, You say you have roosters and you're from Melbourne. Are they legal? Do your neighbours mind? I'd love one, but I'm not sure of our...
Hi everyone thanks for the ideas. We have heavy compacted clay here, but both trees were planted into established beds, with good existing...
Hi, We can't seem to grow avocadoes successfully. The first tree was in an exposed site, and although we watered it regularly, after losing it...
lentils Hi Wayne and floot, If you want to grow lentils, just go to the supermarket or your local nut shop and buy a couple of packets...
Hi, I tried drying some tomatoes in the sun this week. I have an Ezidri food dehydrator, but I thought, in the interest of saving electricity,...
This whole thread has had me in stitches and bellowing out quotes to my husband (watching Alias). Very intriguing idea, maggots. Collecting...
Bummer! What a disgusting waste of a useful resource.
Whoops, sorry, just searched for this and found heaps of info from the past including the extract from the Australia Timber Assoc (or something...
Hi It's hard rubbish collection time in my neighbourhood (my favourite time of year!) and I scavenged some old timber fencing from the side of...
Hi everyone, Thanks for your suggestions. I'm happy to say the chook problem is resolved - after watching what happens each morning when they...
We've been doing it for a couple of years now. When it first occurred to me I rang up the dertergent company and they said you could only use the...
Yeah, I completely agree with frosty. I did a unit on landfill and waste management at uni, and burning plastics of any kind is a big no-no....
Newish to the permaculture thing - very inspired though! Surround by failures each day but learn something from them. I read Jackie French's...
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