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Land for Life: Soil Air Water. Internships beginning Aug 1

Land for Life: Soil Air Water. Internships beginning Aug 1

Syntropic in the main, Permaculture designing, touching on BioDynamic and always Organic, Green – use no poisons

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For Young People ….. at any age

Land4Life Syntropic Soil serves as a powerful gap program, a source of immense personal growth for young people, a hands-on apprenticeship, and a way to enter directly into a thriving career and/or prepare for a successful…

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Ernst Gotsch Life Work: Syntropic Syntropy with the awareness now of the methods of Ernst Gotsch, my work here is done.

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    this post is an extract from future directions – link below

Source:  http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/living-soils-role-microorganisms-soil-health/

Key Points

•Fertile soils teem with microorganisms, which directly contribute to the biological fertility of that soil.

•Biological fertility is under-studied and our scientific knowledge of it is incomplete.

•In addition to…

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50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything

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For Good

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Homemade Weed Control: no need to poison children

Homemade Weed Control: no need to poison children

if there is a woody plant i want to be rid of, i cut the plant about 1 foot from the ground. this leaves a good amount to pull the whole root ball from the ground.  and then i pour a few drops of hydrochloric acid into the top where the cut is.

Hydrochloric acid is a clear, colorless, highly pungent solution of hydrogen chloride in water. It is a highly corrosive, strong mineral acid with many…

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Agnihotra

Over 20 years ago, i learned agnihotra at a weekend workshop in Humpy near Mapleton.  And it was my practice for a period of time, sunrise and sunset. I bought my kit on the sunshine coast when Lee Ringma from Agnihotra Australia visited as part of a workshop tour. from their website  …. “We also regularly organise Workshop Tours coming to your location to conduct free workshops.The geographical…

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My Do's and Don'ts

My Do’s and Don’ts

None of these are required in nature: soil preparation, fertilization, irrigation, weed control, pest control, crop rotation, ph balancing, bio-innoculation, compost tea-ing With SlowFastSoil, the following are no longer necessary: creating different beds for sun-loving and shade-loving food plants tilling digging companion planting composting worm casting or juice Most non-toxic food production…

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The Importance of traditional cultures and indigenous practices

The Importance of traditional cultures and indigenous practices

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Mary Valley Country Harvest Co-op I am visiting the Dagun Station Growers market tomorrow arvo from 3 - 5pm at Dagun Railway Station. 

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keyline design mark IV by collins & doherty

keyline design mark IV by collins & doherty

On their blog,  HeenanDoherty has a posted a paper originally posted here in all its glory ie with pictures and format. I made an attempt to contact HeenanDoherty via a comment On their blog, to no avail – the page would not let me comment.  I have republished AN EXTRACT below.  And have created a PDF document from the original source here.  To download this worthy paper, go here. SOURCE:   …

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Mark Wilkes, a pioneer using wood mulch & myco

Mark Wilkes, a pioneer using wood mulch & myco

SOURCE:    http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=62093 April 25, 2010 – Help Plant a Mushroom Garden As part of the upcoming Earth Day celebrations, the Sunshine Coast Society for Hunting, Recognition and Observation of Mushrooms (SHROOM) is inviting members of the public to help establish a mushroom demonstration garden at the Iris Griffith centre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April…

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Microbes Will Feed the World, or Why Real Farmers Grow Soil, Not Crops - Modern Farmer

INTRO: OOO i am so happy to have found this post. i googled “real soil”. The following is an EXTRACT. SOURCE: Microbes Will Feed the World, or Why Real Farmers Grow Soil, Not Crops – Modern Farmer. Out on the horizon of agriculture’s future, an army 40,000 strong is marching towards a shimmering goal. They see the potential for a global food system where pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers are…

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Funny Whites: the fish will be the last to discover water

Funny Whites

this post in incomplete

I take a look at how, in what way that I find whites funny.

The following documentry speaks eloquently for me.

Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny

This documentary pokes fun at the ways in which Inuit people have been treated as “exotic” documentary subjects by turning the lens onto the strange behaviours of Qallunaat (the Inuit word for white people). The term refers…

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Forty Years of Energetic Cultural Experiments

Forty Years of Energetic Cultural Experiments

Every now and again, I wonder HOW our attempts at  sustainability ARE SUPPOSED TO result in evidential(real)  sustainability, how our “alternative” cultural experiments have helped, apart from entertainment value.

It might be a good time to look at the word “sustainable”. Below are definitions from three online dictionaries. The adjective “sustainable” (www.oxforddictionaries.com):1  Able to be…

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Feed the Soil ! (not the plants)

Feed the Soil ! (not the plants)

i did a google search, and was so delighted! I found some good stuff, namely Paul and Elizabeth , growing along with Nature! Videos below. My eyes are brimming with tears as i watch these videos.  I am so happy to hear about Singing Frogs Farm.

Singing Frogs Farm 

Th…

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The Truth About Minerals in Nutritional Supplements Part C

The Truth About Minerals in Nutritional Supplements Part C

Source:   http://www.doctorsresearch.com/articles3.html

The Truth About Minerals in Nutritional Supplements Part C

by Robert Thiel, Ph.D., Naturopath

continued from Part B

Food and Food Processing

“In the historic struggle for food, humans ate primarily whole foods or so-called natural foods, which underwent little processing…The nutrient content of food usually decreases when it is processed”…

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