Congratulations, HT! Keep us posted 🙂

Hi Mudhen and fruitful. I’m fascinated by earthships as well – thanks for the links 🙂

Hi caddie. Sounds like you’ve made great progress 🙂 I hope we can find such a capable fencing contractor one day (when we’re finally ready to proceed with paddocks for our small animals)…

Like others at ALS, I was really excited to find out about this free course! I was even more excited when I found out that one of the main instructors is Larry Korn (who was the editor and translator of Masanobu Fukuoka’s book “The One-Straw Revolution” – in addition to being a permaculture instructor and landscape designer).

I’ve just c…[Read more]

We recently completed an inventory of the animals located in zone 1 to 5 of our (permaculture) garden areas. In total, the garden has approximately 180 unique animals (including insects, birds, arachnids, mammals, frogs, molluscs, reptiles and worms)…

The following lists summarise the animals that we have discovered in our garden to date. The…[Read more]

Hi Steve and Bobbee. Thanks for letting me know – I think I’ve fixed the problem (for now)…

For anyone interested, I just learned about a “free” interactive data visualization package called Tableau Public. (This package is used by the ABC news in Australia to visualise some of their more advanced graphics). The only “catch” (if you can call it that) is that you have to maintain your source data on their web server. (However, you can…[Read more]

:bump: Our mandarin tree is bursting and I found this thread helpful. For anyone interested, there also seem to be some good recipes at this site: http://www.mountainmandarins.com/recipes.htm. Enjoy!

Hi Humbug. I loved the permaculture “poster” in your first post :laugh:

Here is a link to Nestle’s products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestlé_brands (in case anyone wants to boycott). There are so many…

Thank you to everyone for posting the information in this thread (and other related threads on ALS). Over the past 7 years, we have brought tons of various mulches and manures (both organic and non-organic) onto our property to build garden beds (as several areas had been reduced to compacted clay subsoil).

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:nice: What an interesting concept… I’m looking forward to hearing how this works over time. 🙂

Hmmm, it sounds like anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at some point… :laugh:

Here’s another:

– Rats (or mice) will chew through the cords to both your oven and dishwasher in a single night. (On the bright side, I am now washing dishes the old fashioned way and saving loads of water).

Thank you everyone for your replies so far 🙂 very interesting…

Here are a few more:

· 1 crofton weed (on a disturbed, steep south-facing bank) will turn into 1000 with 2 years. (We are trying to get rid of these by “chopping” them down and leaving the remains as mulch for other plants.)

· Bandicoots will discover grubs/worms around every o…[Read more]

Hi JudiB. I’m so sorry to hear about all your troubles. Please do everything you can to hang in there until things get better… :hug:

I also wanted to thank you for sharing this story. It’s a good reminder to everyone that a “simple life” is certainly not always an “easy life”, but is often a “meaningful life”.

Hi casalenta. Thanks for answering BlueWren’s question 🙂

Hi BlueWren and Wombat. I can understand your reaction to the numbers :huh:. I first came across the site (worldometers) during a discussion on an environmental forum. The site was viewed as being credible (at that time, by the members in the discussion). But, you’ll have to make up your…[Read more]

I’m just bumping this thread in case anyone new might be interested… I find it fascinating to see how many cars, bikes, computers, and tv’s (etc.) are being manufactured in real time (not to mention all the other info)!

Bobbee post=354717 wrote: I don’t think I have ever tasted a mulberry so I should, and then maybe get a tree planted. It will be good for who ever lives here after us.

Mr Bobbs sometimes questions why I keep on wanting to plant trees when we won’t be around to enjoy the fruits of our labours but I hope the family will benefit or whoever else…

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I came across this article several days ago in the brisbanetimes (about the enormous numbers of vinegar flies currently in the area): http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/extraordinary-flies-drawn-by-sodden-city-20130308-2fpyz.html. Fascinating – although, I’ll be relieved when their numbers return to a normal level 🙂

Here is another fascinating graph from wikipedia that once again clearly demonstrates the level of scientific consensus on this issue: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:climate_science_opinion2.png.

Perhaps a moderator or administrator could help me insert the graph’s image into this post? Thank you 🙂