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  Topic: Employment Opportunity!
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Replies: 3
Views: 3276
PostForum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice   Posted: Wed Jul 23, 08 8:22 am   Subject: Employment Opportunity!
Hi there,

I'm trying to set up a social enterprise, and am in need of someone to keep a grip on the accounts whilst i focus on suppliers and customers. I am assured by funding companies the idea is ...
  Topic: Cannabis Concrete anyone?
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Replies: 30
Views: 15857
PostForum: Conservation and Environment   Posted: Sat May 03, 08 10:27 am   Subject: Cannabis Concrete anyone?
As I understand it, the cost of said licence is almost prohibitive- that's why nothing is made from 100% UK stock (not even Yorkshire Hemp)!
  Topic: Horsetail
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Replies: 26
Views: 15441
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Apr 28, 08 8:44 am   Subject: Horsetail
That's the bunny. In my experience impossible to eradicate without chemicals.

hehe. Round here we say, 'that's the badger'. I'd eat that horsetail, or juice it! Great source of silicon and zinc. Ho ...
  Topic: squash growing
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Replies: 48
Views: 15618
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Apr 28, 08 8:39 am   Subject: squash growing
For fertiliser, any greens left in water for a week will add nutrients- best NOT to boil it though, so I'm told.

Try comfrey, nettles and any other indicator plants you have lying around
  Topic: Druid Camp 2008
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Replies: 9
Views: 5142
PostForum: Reviews and What's On   Posted: Mon Apr 28, 08 8:36 am   Subject: Druid Camp 2008
Hmm. Wilderness Gathering, anyone?
  Topic: Log Mushrooms
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Replies: 3
Views: 2203
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Fri Apr 25, 08 2:21 pm   Subject: Log Mushrooms
Thinking about growing them...

Does the log need to undergo special prep., like being partially buried for a certain time? What's the time-frame? Info is hiding from me today.

Any help much appr ...
  Topic: Bees Wiped Out
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Replies: 6
Views: 5988
PostForum: Conservation and Environment   Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 4:20 pm   Subject: Bees Wiped Out
Well I'll be. Still, I knew the Independent had a new Iraq-War-supporting [url=http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,854,where-will-roger-alton-take-the-indie,24420]editor- I guess it's no surprise the ...
  Topic: price of honey
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Replies: 24
Views: 28765
PostForum: The Apiary   Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:45 pm   Subject: price of honey
Talking of a lack of bee produce, have you heard about the Americas? Supposedly mobile radiation may cause Colony Collapse Disorder.
[url=http://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?p=544186#544186]Read ...
  Topic: Bees Wiped Out
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Replies: 6
Views: 5988
PostForum: Conservation and Environment   Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:43 pm   Subject: Bees Wiped Out
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/are-mobile-phones-wiping-out-our-bees-444768.html

A report in the Independent about the posssibility of mobile radiation killing bees. Apparently "Th ...
  Topic: Making a living - downsizing to a country smallholding
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Replies: 105
Views: 112680
PostForum: Welcome   Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 12:33 pm   Subject: Making a living - downsizing to a country smallholding
Yeah, a well designed polyculture can provide a lot of the nutrients necessary to keep land healthy year after year. Of course practically no system operates without some outside influence, after all ...
  Topic: Abortion storm
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Replies: 47
Views: 20535
PostForum: Livestock and Pets   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 08 11:04 am   Subject: Abortion storm
i'm easy like sunday... noon. or rather, nooooon, baby
  Topic: Crafty Sundays whats everyone working on?
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Replies: 44
Views: 15010
PostForum: Make Your Own/DIY   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 08 10:55 am   Subject: Crafty Sundays whats everyone working on?
I should be making my pedal generator today, but the prices for metal mean that alternators are too costly for a mendicant like myself.
Instead, I've been planting more veg, and sanding down the back ...
  Topic: Abortion storm
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Replies: 47
Views: 20535
PostForum: Livestock and Pets   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 08 10:40 am   Subject: Abortion storm
My condolences, poor things. How long have you been breeding?
  Topic: Why do my sausages split?
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Replies: 8
Views: 6439
PostForum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 08 10:37 am   Subject: Why do my sausages split?
guilt manifesting?
  Topic: Anyone for Quinoa?
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Replies: 12
Views: 5242
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Apr 07, 08 3:40 pm   Subject: Anyone for Quinoa?
I was going to plant mine tother day, but then it snowed. So I'm kind of glad I didn't.

I'm told the amount of seeds from one plant is staggering.
 
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