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Post by feralemma on Oct 5, 2021 15:31:37 GMT 10
Return to the days of horse and cart 🤣
Who is going to run their corporate farms for them and produce the food? Also the corporations that are buying up arable farming land in Australia are banks, and the agricultural companies they own. There's a couple of different farming companies in WA that are owned by Maquarie bank, they are spreading ownership around betwen different companies so it doesn't look like they are aiming for a monopoly but it's what they are doing. We are aiming to expand and buy another property soon so that we can benefit from the economy of scale that comes with more productive land and have a bit better foothold in our area.
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Post by feralemma on Oct 4, 2021 11:58:00 GMT 10
Might have to look into that on my retreat. Plant fast growing trees, get money from government as carbon credit, then cut down trees and burn as firewood, releasing all that stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Bwahaha, this Woke crap is awesome. Biochar the trees instead, better carbon storage. And crap is definitely an appropriate word for the levels of wokeness going on 🤣🤣
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Post by feralemma on Oct 4, 2021 11:56:19 GMT 10
When I looked into carbon credits (soil or trees) for my last property ... it made my head hurt. feralemma did you use a consultant to set it up? We bought the property cheap (paid $200k for 3500 acres) as it already had the trees on it and they are owned by the company that planted them so sadly we don't get the benefits from them.....and we are not allowed to clear them. Unless they die tho, then all bets are off! 700 acres of the property had wattle regrowth on it which the carbon mob weren't allowed to clear to plant trees on but we could so we now have 700 arable acres as well as 2800 acres of light grazing in the trees. I'd love to biochar the whole lot of the trees and pump them back into the soil, it would store more carbon than the trees themselves, greatly improve the soils and produce better yields than this place has ever seen 🤣
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Post by feralemma on Oct 3, 2021 11:47:40 GMT 10
Hahaha this topic changed direction abrubtly 🤣
As far as carbon credits and offsetting carbon goes, either for corporations or persoal, it's all a big scam. Our farm is partly covered in trees planted for carbon credits (approx 2 million mallee trees on 2700 acres of our place) that are not native to the area, and not planted in anything that resembles a natural ecology. They are as bad as monoculture crops, and are planted to maximise profit for the carbon company while sucking an unnatural amount of resources out of the soil and will eventually out compete each other and kill themselves off. Very little can grow under them and nothing eats them (other than a certain type of beetle that I may just have to aquire). Personal carbon credits would be offset using this same method, and some carbon credit companies plant sandlewood with their quick growing, quick maturing carbon trees as host trees and then harvest the whole lot and start all over again. Carbon credits are only paid on additional storage (ie growth) acheived every year so quick growing plants pay better money but once they've acheived maximum growth they are worthless.
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Post by feralemma on Sept 15, 2021 15:12:51 GMT 10
Wild dogs in Australia are a mix of pure dingoes (they come in a lot more colours than people think), dingos crossed with dogs or just plain domestic breed dogs that have either been dumped, lost hunting or bred up in Indiginous communities. Neither one of these is more dangerous than any of the others as they are essentially the same species, it seems to be their proximity to people and individual breed traits that influence their behaviour. The more used to people they are the more bold and dangerous they are, and a pitbull/dingo mix is going to be more dangerous than a cavoodle/dingo mix for obvious reasons. The one variation between them is the established pack behaviour of dingoes, they haven't had this bred out of them over milennia and seem to be less of a threat than a pack of domestic dogs or domestic/dingo hybrids as they tend to get a lot more excited and feed off each others behaviour when they are in a pack.
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Post by feralemma on Aug 27, 2021 11:04:55 GMT 10
You can get direct injection bait stations that can't be moved around by animals and can be deactivated when you need to. Not sure on the laws in your state, but you can either get an LMPT in to set them for you (and check them), as well as set traps and put cameras in to monitor dog activity, or you can get a poisons ticket and do it yourself. Personally I prefer to shoot but dogs are far more cunning than foxes. As it's a loner it's probably a male, so if you can get some pee from a on heat you can lure it in with scent markers.
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Post by feralemma on Aug 22, 2021 10:20:16 GMT 10
I made a gingerbeer with what sounds like a pretty similar recipe several years ago. Wasn't strong enough for a buzz, but definitely very tasty. I'd make it again if I weren't more keen on my (far more alcoholic) mead lol. Did you leave it to develop for a month or so before putting it in the fridge? At a guess mine goes to about 8%
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Post by feralemma on Aug 20, 2021 10:35:32 GMT 10
CWA cookbook ginger beer recipe (alcoholic version) is very basic using pantry ingredients -sugar, sultanas, ginger powder and lemon juice, and has a good flavour to it. Can you get p***ed on it? Absolutely!
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Post by feralemma on Aug 18, 2021 10:49:48 GMT 10
CWA cookbook ginger beer recipe (alcoholic version) is very basic using pantry ingredients -sugar, sultanas, ginger powder and lemon juice, and has a good flavour to it.
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Post by feralemma on Aug 18, 2021 10:42:05 GMT 10
Pearl barley risotto: Pearl barley - 2 cups Dried garlic Dried spring onions (or fresh from the garden) White wine - 1 cup Thyme Chicken stock Parmesan cheese Oil/butter/ghee - 2tbs
Fry barley in oil/butter with garlic and spring onions for 5 mins. Add wine and cook until reduced Add pinch of thyme and chicken stock. Cook until tender, adding more stock/liquid as needed. Stir thru parmesan cheese and serve!
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Post by feralemma on Aug 18, 2021 10:22:27 GMT 10
Since there are farmers in this thread maybe you can answer a question for me? I've got a bit of a hobby of retrieving crashed bureau of Meteorology weather balloons. It gets the trash out of the environment plus I get a cool electronics package and some lithium AA's and a fun day out. Anyway this time of year they get blown out east and end up in the wheatbelt and in some farmers field usually. What is the etiquette of getting access to the land? I'm assuming I can't just get on there without permission to retrieve the balloon and most of the time I can't even see a farm house nearby. These things land randomly so it's not like I can pre arrange anything. ASK before entering someone elses land. Farm houses are not that hard to find, and if you're really struggling go to the shire and ask who owns x property on y road and how you would get in contact with them. Farmers don't appreciate strangers driving across their paddocks disrupting things, leaving gates open, trashing crops and potentially introducing weeds or a catastrophic biosecurity breach that can cost them their livelihood.
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Post by feralemma on Jun 20, 2021 17:27:08 GMT 10
Hold off i reckon. 10 acres would be good to retire to wouldn’t it? If you sell now it would be costly to buy back in. Lol 10 acres is way too small for anything we need in the next 30 years, we'd rather use the money as a deposit to buy another farm. At the moment it only gets used to run our rams on when they are not in with our ewes and store some stuff in the shed but the money from it could be used better.
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Post by feralemma on Jun 20, 2021 11:09:22 GMT 10
Small acreages out here are selling almost as soon as listed, and for up to 2 X listed price. Its insane. Lol so now would be a good time to sell my 10 acre block that is just sitting there unused.....probs should get onto that!
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Post by feralemma on Jun 12, 2021 21:00:34 GMT 10
I'm impressed that the electrical tape was still sticking!
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Post by feralemma on Jun 12, 2021 20:37:58 GMT 10
It's fooking ridiculous and a huge beat up by the media and cops wanting to pretend they did the right thing 🙄 hope he beats most of those charges and gets his gear back
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Post by feralemma on Jun 4, 2021 21:39:59 GMT 10
Plough discs are fairly bullet resistant too. Well ... the old ones were. Not sure about stuff made after the 80's. I don't think I've ever seen a plough disc made after then 🤣 I swear ploughs just get older each year and never need to be replaced as they are mostly just used to do firebreaks now
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Post by feralemma on Jun 3, 2021 10:24:54 GMT 10
Something we've lost is the village, approach to raising children. It's good to see some people still practice this approach!
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Post by feralemma on Jun 3, 2021 10:19:29 GMT 10
Plough discs make good bbq plates over an open fire, also with a couple of star pickets to hold them. Any type of empty food tin can make a decent billy with the addition of fencing wire as a handle.
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Post by feralemma on May 31, 2021 21:23:09 GMT 10
Mega volcano eruption is a 4th option for major depopulation. The resultant ash cloud would cover the sun for years afterwards, meaning no food.
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Post by feralemma on May 31, 2021 21:18:26 GMT 10
Just bang a screwdriver through the filter and use that as leverage to turn it. LMAO ... Farm Mechanics! You should start a YouTube channel!! Even THAT is tricky in the available tool space. But yeah ... in desperation, that would be the way!! I've ordered a Ryco socket from Repco. (Of which there is only 1 stock item anywhere in SA). With the socket I can run an extension out past all the obstructions and make the job easy. But ... It'll still be messy. Because as soon as the filter is loosened it drops oil all over various parts directly below it. I could start a channel called whackamole farming: for every problem you hit on the head another one pops up 🤣 Lol would a garbage bag or similar around or under the filter help stop drips?
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