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If You Want a BIGGER, BETTER, STRONGER, ROOTICAL (NATURAL) Vegetable Garden You Need To Toughen Up A Likkle.

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How a HARD NOSED and yet FLEXIBLE Gardening approach will result in a STRONGER vegetable garden. Farming is a tough business. You only need to speak to one of our…

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Grow Produce With Very Little Effort – TINY FARMS, BIG PRODUCE SERIES

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How to reap the rewards from a small amount of effort for years to come. Although perennials are often slow growing, once established they can just about take care of themselves.…

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Be the Friend That Inspires

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WOW WHAT IS THIS??  I’ve never tasted anything like it. When your friends come to visit, they will leave inspired to try something new. And it’s all due to your…

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Using Tap Water In Aquaponics

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The easiest way to fill or top up an aquaponics system is by using ordinary outside tap. Here is what you need to know about using scheme tap water in…

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Pests Are Parents Too

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Pests Are Parents Too- GARDENING TO HELP MAKE LIFE – NOT TAKE LIFE SUBURBAN FARMER DOES NOT use TOXIC chemicals. WE ENCOURAGE ALL LIFE. Beat the bugs with psychological tactics…

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Chickens vs Ducks

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LETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLE! Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to a contest that promises to be a classic in every sense of the word. In the blue corner, weighing…

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UNITY In The commUNITY

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(Original concept 4WD’ing Responsibly 2013) Wadada! Wadada means LOVE in Amharic. This is where the foundation of unity comes from. And within the word community is the word UNITY. So…

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Keep Your Vegetable Gardening Passion Alive

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If you keep putting off gardening jobs or work in your garden seems like a chore, then you might be experiencing or have lost the passion you had when you…

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Some Easy and Practical Methods of Becoming Self Reliant Pt 1 (Food Staples)

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We would all like our backyards to be a source of food, medicines, staples etc – but how achievable is it that your backyard could become ”Your Supermarket”? With decreased…

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The One Secret Ingredient hook!

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Read this to uncover the one secret ingredient to make your vegetable garden a success! One thing to FOOL them all… In this day and age, we are led to…

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What can I expect from my AQUAPONICS?

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How much fresh fish and vegetable produce can you expect from your backyard aquaponics system? What makes a successful adventure? What are your aspirations and concerns?

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Top 5 Aquaponics Fails

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A small backyard aquaponic system supplying fish and vegetables sounds like a self-reliance dream, but it can quickly turn into a nightmare. Here is what to avoid to ensure it…

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Why Having Marron In Your Aquaponics System is a plus

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Marron are about the best tasting freshwater crayfish there is, and their benefits don’t stop at your tastebuds.

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Introducing Fish Into Your Aquaponics System

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It is an anxious time when you introduce new fish into an aquaponics system, and it pays to get them off to the best possible start. Here are tips for…

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Hints and Tips for Planting in an Aquaponics System

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These tips will help you make sure you get the plants in your aquaponics system off to the best possible start.

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Why You COULD Regret Getting Chickens

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Getting chickens for your backyard CAN result in problems. Not always, but it can happen despite your best intentions. Here are some things to think about to help to avoid…

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Tips For Growing Barramundi

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Inviting your friends to a BBQ with home grown Barramundi will make an impression! Here are some ideas to ensure that barramundi is on the menu and not fast food…

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How Your Vegetable Garden Can Teach You About LIFE

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What Is Yield? Is it the produce that you can eat? Is it a marker of SUCCESS? Is it the only thing we should go by?

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Barramundi Warm

Jump Start the Barramundi Season

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Barramundi is a fast growing fish that can be grown successfully in backyard aquaponics, however in temperate regions the growing season is short and barely gives you enough time to grow them…

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Your Ultimate Spring Planting Guide for PERTH

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This guide will tell you what you can plant in Perth, how long before you can expect produce to be ready, and give you a plan for the types of…

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Why I don’t crop rotate

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Every few weeks I get a slightly panicked email or question relating to the complicated world of CROP ROTATION. After the long, anxious, confused, and inevitably deflated request for help,…

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Zombie Chickens!!

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I deh pon forward (walk outside) out to the back into the garden and have a look around. Nothing unusual, the plants are healthy and growing greatly, the compost is…

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Green Manures

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So we have all heard about manure, and its importance to adding humus and organic content to our soils and improving fertility. Most of these manures come from animals and…

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DIY Bubble Bucket

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“The word hydroponics comes from the roots “hydro”, meaning water, and “ponos”, meaning labor.”

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Growing From Seed

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Have you ever thought about how many punnets you have brought lately and thrown away the containers, just to go and buy more seedlings when needed?

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