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Thought For The Month
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 6
The Amoebozoa is another group of unicellular organisms whose cells are covered by a very thin protein layer with or without microscales. The Alveolata is a group of protists characterised by folded membranes underneath their cell membranes.
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Integrating Trees Into Pasture & Crops
A successful demonstration of sustainable farm practices is being conducted in Gippsland by Clinton Teppler, a trained forester. Clinton has applied his knowledge of trees and planted out a 3 acre site and is growing a series of grasses and grain crops in the inter rows.
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Take Control Of Your Health
This week’s Gold Nugget is a personal story which I am sharing as it seems that it has a common thread. Several weeks ago I was chatting to Roly who is a fellow choir member, He had been away for 3 weeks and on asking he said that he had been sick.
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Thought For The Month
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 5
There are hundreds or even thousands of soil Cercozoa species that cannot be distinguished by microscopy and, therefore, many genera remain to be described. These are usually the most common active protists in soils…
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Pesticides and Children: Protecting the Most Vulnerable Population
Andre Leu, President of I.F.O.A.M. has written Poisoning Our Children: The Parents Guide to the Myths of Safe Pesticides which discloses the many deficiencies in the regulations and in the testing of many chemicals in our food supply.
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The Superior Doctor Prevents Illness
There’s a Chinese proverb which says: The superior doctor prevents illness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The inferior doctor treats actual illness.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 4
Actinobacteria is a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria that have a highly diverse morphology, ranging from micrococci (spherical) and rods to branched filaments that resemble fungal hyphae. Cyanobacteria is a group of bacteria that are able to obtain their energy through photosynthesis.
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Thought For The Month
To Go Forward, Consider the Health of Your Soil with Every Choice You Make on the Farm
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The Soil Is A Great Connector of Lives, The Source And Destination Of All by Wendell Berry
Soil biology! The diversity and dynamism of a healthy soil and its complex, living biota which is mainly microscopic and therefore largely lays hidden from view is mostly overlooked.
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21 Home Remedies for a Toothache – Part 2
Following on from the last Gold Nugget here is the 2nd and final part of home remedies for a toothache that you might want to try.
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21 Home Remedies for a Toothache – Part 1
You can’t schedule a toothache and it never fails that a major toothache hits when it’s late at night and the dentist is closed, or you’re somewhere remote and getting to a dentist any time soon is just not an option.
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Thought For The Month
Dr. Arden Andersen’s Question to Farmers. Farmers have an incredibly important role to play as food producers
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 3
Proteobacteria is the largest and most diverse bacterial phylum. It contains about 30 % of the total number of bacterial species. The most representative genera in Firmicutes are Bacillus and Clostridium, which are obligate and facultative anaerobic bacteria, respectively.
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A Weed is a Plant Whose Virtues Have Not Yet Been Discovered ~ Waldo Emerson
One of these plants that drive many to distraction is the common blackberry. Whilst it stabilises overgrazed and eroded ground magnificently and provides shelter and safe nesting sites for small birds it simply is often growing readily where it is not wanted.
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Natural Antibiotic Alternative Part 8
We’ve read the studies that claim bacteria can protect each other and resist antibiotics, but honey breaks up bacteria as it kills it, making it impossible for bacteria to evolve…
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Thought For The Month
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 2
Bacteria are one of the two domains, along with Archaea, that include prokaryotic organisms. The domain Bacteria comprises microscopic organisms, single-celled or with the cells forming simple associations.
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The Refractometer Is The First And Foremost Testing Tool For Nutrient Quality – Dr. Arden Andersen
Brix is used in the food industry for measuring the approximate amount of sugars in fruit juices, wine, soft drinks and in the sugar manufacturing industry.
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Natural Antibiotic Alternative Part 7
Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful antibiotic. Grapefruit seed extract can also help combat fatigue. Oregano oil has been shown effective in treating tonsillitis and other bacterial infections.
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Thought For The Month
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, Ambitions for the future, in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 1
Archaea are unicellular microscopic organisms with a striking variety of cell shapes and unique geometric forms Many are rod-like (referred to as bacilli and or spherical (referred to as cocci while the heat-loving (thermophiles) are highly irregular cocci.
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Early Food Cultivation in Australia May Be Your Future
Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu, which took out Book of the Year in 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, is a thesis that challenges the generally accepted theory of…