Author: Darren
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The Cost Of Raising Your Own Pigs For Meat
A complete summary of the costs for our first foray into raising our own pigs for meat, from piglet purchase right through to slaughter and butchering.
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Home Grown Pork
The pigs finally came home from the butcher. We received back 74 kilograms of porky goodness per pig – that’s a lot of meat to have sitting in front of you!
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Taking The Pigs To The Abattoir
The pigs have finally reached a good baconer size, and are ready to head off to the abattoir.
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Pig Tractors For Clearing Land
If you want to clear a large area of land with little effort, you can’t beat a pig tractor!
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Weekly Roundup – Amazing Chicken Coop, Backyard Aquaponics
How to build an automatic chicken coop door opener, the world’s fanciest chicken coop, Kiama Community Garden’s new blog, backyard aquaponics, and Fresh the movie.
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Jamberoo Community Growers Meeting – Backyard Aquaponics
Our first Jamberoo Community Growers meeting for 2011 will be on Sunday 6th February, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, in the Jamberoo Anglican Church hall (next door to Jamberoo Primary School). The speaker at this meeting will be John Burgess from Fresh By Nature, a Gerringong-based business providing aquaponics systems, supplies, fish stock & feed, and…
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Chop and Drop
By “chopping and dropping” your weeds you not only mulch and return nutrients to the soil, but you avoid disturbing the soil surface and prevent more weed seeds germinating.
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Weekly Roundup – Wood Pallets and Swales
How to dismantle wooden shipping pallets and use them to build sheds, chicken coops, animal shelters and other useful structures. Also how to dig swales, and an indoor farm in Tokyo.
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Geese In The Garden
A little more unusual than chickens and ducks, geese can provide several useful functions in the garden if you have the space.