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The following submission to the SA Health Commission (now Dept Health) demonstrates the principles involved in designing a reedbed system. Chas Martin, one of the designers, operates as a consultant for the design and construction of reedbeds in South Australia. The design below was approved by the Health Commission and Gawler Council and built at The Food Forest in 2001.
Significant improvements have been made by designers since this system was proposed but it demonstrates the basics of an appl...
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Messages of congratulation from around the world have flooded into South Australia for Manfred, a goose that had lived for much of its life as a male but is now the proud mother of ten goslings.
Manfred was reared as an orphan by two humans and a small dog and received a male name as white geese in the Gawler region are males. But tragedy struck the family when the small dog died. Manfred was somehow implicated in the death and the grieving parents wanted another dog, so Manfred was sent...
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Please contact us for large orders as we may be able to reduce shipping costs or if you would like to place an order from outside Australia. We offer a range of educational DVDs, pistachios, pistachio kernels and wines at wholesale prices.
We send our orders every week on a Thursday with Australia Post. Please see here for further shipping details.
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Winner: Best Organic ProducerRunner-up: Best Organic Education Project
The Organic Federation of Australia (OFA) is Australia's peak body for organic agriculture and aims:
to encourage the adoption of organic farming systems
to actively lobby and liaise with government to develop policy that supports organic farming systems that deliver environmental, social justice and health
Benefits:
to make food and fibre consumers aware of the benefits of chemical-free food supplied by the Australian Certif...
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The Food Forest took the honours for the Barossa Regional Food Award last week in a glittering ceremony at Chateau Tanunda. The pint-sized permaculture property near Gawler was up against national icons such as Maggie Beer Products but the unique on-site processing of pistachios, the complete recycling of of green by-products as compost to go back into the pistachio growing cycle and the fully audited organic status of the business attracted the judges.
Annemarie and Graham Brookman had put huge...
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