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Asian Honey Bee – Senate Committee orders reconvening of CCEPP to continue eradication program for Asian honey bee
Posted on April 8, 2011 | 3 CommentsBureaucratic bungling and arguments about funding could possibly put us behind the eight ball in the eradication program for the Asian honey bee. An interim report from the Senate Rural... -
Compost the new ethanol?
Posted on March 10, 2011 | No CommentsEnzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production The researcher in question is Nadia Skorupa Parachin and the secret of her technique is enzymes that she extracted from garden soil.... -
Talking Dirty
Posted on February 27, 2011 | No CommentsComposting is an activity guaranteed to scare both the newbie and the seasoned gardener. But with a little help and a few tips you could be producing a garden soil... -
Dick Smith – An argument for population decline?
Posted on November 9, 2010 | No CommentsDick Smith has been quite verbose in his new campaign to cut the population growth in Australia. Back in Jan, 2010 the Herald Sun reprinted this article: A massive 384... -
Queensland businesses dominate organic industry awards
Posted on October 22, 2010 | No CommentsThree Queensland-based retailers have taken out the organic industry’s most prestigious titles – the highly coveted 2010 National Organic Week Retail Awards, announced last week. Presented by Australia’s leading organic... -
Tomatoes get fat on graft
Posted on August 30, 2010 | 4 CommentsTomato fetish, yes I mean fetish, not relish. Gardeners can be an obsessive lot and certain plants have a certain attraction. Tomatoes rope you in the day you produce your... -
Super tropical fruit
Posted on August 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana L) is a potential smorgasbord of health benefits, containing organic compounds called xanthones, which, according to Wikipedia, there are 200 found in nature. Forty-three are... -
Potent chemical cocktails milked from spiders
Posted on July 29, 2010 | No CommentsAs of 1992, more than 500 species of insects and mites were reported to be resistant to one or more classes of insecticides, including 95 types of mosquito, and nine... -
Fatal bacteria spreading through the top end
Posted on July 29, 2010 | No CommentsKeith Risk from rural Darwin worked on the wharves. One day feeling ‘a bit off’ he came home from work. The next day Keith awoke with a bad headache. By... -
GM canola not ‘a flop’
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 7 CommentsTo the editor: The GM debate continues heatedly, as it should, but the amount of propaganda coming out of the GM free camp is concerning. It was with alarm that...
