Checking in with absent friends. Drought. wet and covid have hit hard and losing my bees too was difficult. We do feel a sense of optimsim for the...
Cruzing into retirement. Bees n Cheese. Education with farm tours for school and other groups. . https://www.purplepearfarm.com.au/
Great to see your bean growing - we are doing more here too in a hope to provide more of the dry goods with chick peas and beans added to the...
How exciting to have the opportunity to begin such a project. It would be great to learn more as your site develops.
Thanks for the kind words Grace. We continue to run our programs here at Purple Pear. I have not been a regular on the forum for a while but rest...
Sweltering in the heat and the dry and building amenities for a major 2018
I totally agree with you Mischief. For me it is about the ethics and this is something we carry around inside us. It seems less important to have...
Ahh - you know you are making a difference when someone wants to know what color your underpants are.
If memory serves the first is wood sorrel and it is yummy the second looks like a bean and the third is Amaranth and is a great food for people...
Oh Dear Pebble - I see what you mean about this new mob showing no respect for people such as you who have contributed so much to making the forum...
Hello Bill and all - thank you for the things you do. Can anyone tell me if Mandala Town has been wiped off the map for good? I expected to see...
We are doing fine Pebble. The farm goes from strenght to strength. Not too sure we are fully self sustaining tjough - it seems we put more into it...
Wish I could agree Ausuie bee keeper though as Dc put it so well "It is not the science that is the problem. It is the hijacking of science by...
Wow pebble - big changes at the forum since I last visited. Where is Mandala Town these days - wiped off the face of the earth? I trust all is...
May I suggest you travel via the internet as much as possible Alon - it is much better for the environment. You mught like to look us up in...
Very impressive journal indeed Inge. I love the fresh approach to the herb spiral.
the answer is Organic Matter Remember - What ever the question about soil - the answer is Organic Matter. I do not think many would be against...
An internship may be the answer. Have you thought of an internship Guus? Where do you live and how far do you want to travel. We so not take...
When we had the dams cleaned at Purple Pear Farm we deposited the silt at the top of the slope in a endeavour to have the nutrient slowly make its...
It has been a long dry Andrew and we are not out of it yet. My grazing plan called for regrowth in October but here it is nearly May and just...
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