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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: November 2014
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 24 November 2014. A tale of two tomatoes. In an environment that has a great deal of variability in the weather, it probably is a very good idea to seek signs in the landscape to guide your farming practices. It would be optimal to keep the herba...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: August 2015
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 31 August 2015. How much can a Koala Bear? Last week, the temperature plummeted, the skies darkened with thick heavy cloud and the rain fell liberally for days on end. I’m hungry, where is my dinner? I need to go to the toilet, let me out now!
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: August 2014
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 25 August 2014. A good example of this sort of failure is that person could read all about firewood, however nothing quite prepares you for the realities of harvesting, storing and then using the stuff. It is always cheaper and more efficient to ...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: Power struggle
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 10 August 2015. That particular fork in the road was a tough fork to ponder. In such situations it is good to reach back to the memories of the old timers and ask the question: What would the old timers do in such a situation? Re-use it was then!
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: March 2015
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 30 March 2015. Scritchy is in fact, a rat detective. And so this week she has found where the rats are living near the house and informed me of her find. The rats are living in a storm water drain next to the house. The dogs here are well fed and...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: July 2014
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Sunday, 27 July 2014. A little bit more sunlight. Activities this week focused on the off grid solar electricity systems here. Sometimes, you just need a little bit more energy – especially over winter. I’ll include details in this blog about how a...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: The Hen House formerly known as
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 3 August 2015. The Hen House formerly known as. And the rats aren’t doing their rodent like fecal business in the chicken’s fresh water supply which is also a bonus. Some of the chickens were more adaptable than others and it may surprise people ...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: January 2015
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 26 January 2015. The seed of an idea. It’s the 26. Of January here and for people in Australia that means Australia day which is a public holiday. Yay! Needless to say, the whole lot of them almost starved. Oh, well done Hilltop hoods and Peking ...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: April 2015
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 27 April 2015. A water shed moment. The mothership descends into the valley. And land in the valley that cloud certainly did! The enforcer chicken braves the thick cloud for a peck in the orchard. Over the next few months, I’m considering r...
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm: October 2014
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Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm. A weekly blog discussing the projects and the realities of living on an organic, permaculture and off grid solar small holding farm in the south eastern corner of Australia. Monday, 27 October 2014. We’re back babe-bee! I couldn’t help myself, I had to somehow work the word “bee”. Into the title of this week’s blog! A small section of the bee food flower, vegetable and herb garden. To be completely honest, the old queen was ...
