Author: Darren
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Cheese Making Workshop – Wollongong
In this hands-on, practical workshop you’ll learn how to make Ricotta, Mascarpone and Fetta cheese. Please note this full day course has a charge of $30 per person (this is subsidised from a retail cost of $90 per person). The course will be held in Wollongong. Contact Lizzie on 0414 940 284 for more details…
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Composting Workshop – Kiama
Come and learn the basics of successful composting and worm farming, as well as the revolutionary Bokashi bin system. Each household participating in the workshop will receive a FREE compost bin. This workshop is run by Kiama Council and is available for Kiama Municipal Residents ONLY. This workshop is being run in Kiama by Josephine…
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Chicken Sellers In The Illawarra
It can be hard to find chickens for sale locally, especially if you’re after a particular breed. Here is a big list of all the places I found when I was looking: – [Illawarra Mercury Classifieds](http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/content/classifieds/) (look under pets, horses and livestock, and for sale categories) – Other local newspaper classifieds (Kiama Independent, Lake Times,…
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Keeping Cows In The City?
The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Good Living” supplement today has an article about [HerdShare](http://www.herdshare.com) and [Rentachook](http://www.rentachook.com), titled [City folk find a milky way](http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/good-living/city-folk-find-a-milky-way/2008/12/02/1227979978585.html). **HerdShare** runs out of Byron Bay, and facilitates a scheme designed to get around Australian regulations that prohibit the sale of raw (unpasteurised) milk. Instead of buying your milk at retail, you instead…
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SeedSavers Meeting This Afternoon
If you’re into home gardening, don’t forget the [SeedSavers meeting](http://green-change.com/2008/11/10/upcoming-illawarra-seedsavers-meeting/) this afternoon at Dapto, from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. I’ll be there!
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Our New Chicken – A Cuckoo Leghorn
Since [Molly the rooster moved out to the farm](http://green-change.com/2008/11/13/chicken-quest/), we’ve been wanting to get another chook or two for the chicken tractor. Our three black silkies are just about to come into lay (I’ve been saying that for 3 weeks now!), but we thought it would be nice to get a ‘proper’ layer as well.…
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MS6115 Mains Power Meter Review
####What is it? The MS6115 mains power meter is a device for measuring the electrical power used by an appliance. It looks like an electronic timer switch (see photo at right). You plug it into your power point, and then plug your appliance into it to measure its power use. ####What does it do? You…
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Using A Plugin Power Meter
>_When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts,…
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Solar Hot Water Research
I attended the [Gerringong solar hot water information night](http://green-change.com/2008/11/19/solar-hot-water-information-night-gerringong/) on Friday. It was very well-run, and was a great opportunity to talk to lots of different suppliers all in one place. The presentation by [Jamberoo FutureCare](http://jamberoofuturecare.googlepages.com/) was excellent. They don’t have any particular axe to grind – they just want to present the facts and…