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Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup – Outfoxing Foxes

July 18, 2011 by Darren

Various resources for keeping foxes and poultry separated, chook pen designs, fencing, a chicken feeder, and the Australian FeralScan web site.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: chickens, chooks, fencing, fox, myna, pests, predators, recycling, weekly roundup

Weekly Roundup – Trivets and Egg-Bots

May 30, 2011 by Darren

Another newly-discovered local blog, roasting with a trivet, spring bulbs, the egg-bot robot, and some US towns turning their back on federal licensing and inspection regulations for locally-produced food.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: acreage, eggs, illawarra, local food, weekly roundup

Weekly Roundup – Fruit Tree Swales and Chicken Tunnels

March 14, 2011 by Darren

Info on fruit tree swales, another Illawarra blogger, a cool tinyhouse, young people getting into farming in the US, wind knitting, and chicken tunnels.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: backyard chickens, bloggers, chicken tractor, farmers, swales

Weekly Roundup – Amazing Chicken Coop, Backyard Aquaponics

January 28, 2011 by Darren

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.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: backyard aquaponics, chicken coops, chickens, Fresh By Nature, Jamberoo Community Growers, sustainability, weekly roundup

Weekly Roundup – Wood Pallets and Swales

January 16, 2011 by Darren

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.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: chicken coops, swales, wooden pallets

Weekly Roundup – Rooting Hormone, Eco House and Leftovers Recipes

December 24, 2010 by Darren

How to make rooting hormone from willows, frugality in primetime media, eco house and garden, buying/renovating/using your home wisely, River Cottage recipes and a Permaculture Visions tour.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: frugal living, home energy, organic gardening, recipe, recycling

Weekly Roundup – Woodland Home, Eggs and Grains

December 10, 2010 by Darren

Interesting reading from the past fortnight: a low impact woodland home, the true meaning of “free range” eggs, baked eggs in bread rolls, preventing fruit fly, growing grains in your backyard, and Dirt Girl World for the kids.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: children, free range eggs, fruit fly, grain, recipe

Weekly Roundup – Mulch Paths, Tinyhouses, and More Pigs

November 29, 2010 by Darren

Items of note I read this week: mulched garden paths, sub-acre agriculture, tiny houses, a DIY first aid kit, and lots of backyard pig-raising.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: garden beds, gardening, mulch, pigs, sustainability

Weekly Roundup – Worming Pigs and Solar Nests

November 19, 2010 by Darren

What I’ve been reading about this week – worming pigs naturally, butchering pigs, sustainable display homes, KiamaSphere, Book Depository, modern homesteading, how to freeze eggs, and the solar nest.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: books, chickens, eggs, Kiama, pigs, podcast, Shellharbour, sustainability, weekly roundup

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