> Between here and D. there are approximately one million stock animals of > all species. The vast majority are on conventional (ie chemical) > agriculture properties. To my knowledge, the only organic/biodynamic > farms within reach of that road are a 100-acre mixed cropping farm near > Bredbo ((115 kms away plus 15 kms of connecting dirt road which is > awful) and a piggery at Berridale not far from D.
Roger - how much have things changed? When I lived on the Monaro you would have had no trouble finding healthy female cattle running on mostly native pasture (maybe got a small dose of single superphosphate every three years or so) that had never been herbicided, cattle not drenched or dipped or otherwise interfered with for many months, and I'll back their dung as a better bet energy wise than that from an 'organic' feedlot at Temora any day! Any stockman worth the name knows those million Monaro stock animals as some of the most healthy and robust domestic stock on the face of this earth - the hardiness, longevity and 'doing ability ' of those animals is unequalled. You have to get off that black road though. You see the absolute worst of that district from the main bitumen raods! Take a drive down past Krawaree - The Badja - Countegany - Kybeyan or up by Shannons Flat - Yaouk - around to Adaminaby - I bet you can find some good clean cows and healthy energetic pies. Cheers Lloyd Charles > > There are BD farms around Canberra. Lez Patten's place 'Wingrove' at > Gundaroo 40 kms away is probably about the closest but she doesn't have > cows - her manure comes from an organic feedlot at Temora 200 kms > further west. > > Just under a month ago, Hamish Mackay sprayed the 40 hectare Dalgety TSR > project site with a bacterial compost tea at a rate of 150 litres per > hectare. Made on site to specifications provided by James and Barbara > Hedley and diluted 20:1, the compost component was supplied by me from > Canberra sources because there is nobody within the D. region who makes > a suitable compost. In fact, no one who makes any sort of compost! > > BD NOW! is even further flung and rightly so. It too suffers from > reality differences. The reality difference between the small holders on the east coast and us inland is a fair test sometimes > What is possible in North America may not be > elsewhere. Often is not. Definitive statements regarding what should or > should not be done in a given situation, or what may or may not be used, > have a tendency to put people off doing anything at all for fear of not > being able to meet the parameters. I try not to be definitive; I don't > always succeed. > > roger
