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how about contacting stepping stones at highbury farm, on edge of forest of dean?
or go to a radical routes gathering?

we've got a freezer full of courgettes, shelves of pumpkins, butternuts, marrows, and jars of pasteurised ratatouille and tomatoes. its been a very good year for us - we've bought practically no veg through the whole summer! and i've started sourcing new varieties of seeds for next year, and even ha...

all native trees are much slower growing than the eucalyptus which dominates here...
Paulownia seems good because you can intercrop with native hardwoods, which benefit from the paulownia, then when you cut the paulownia a forest of hardwoods is already established...

i am with stonehead on this one (again). a better approach may have been to just walk around somewhere like brighton on a bin night (where all my furniture and much more came from when i lived there) and taking a look in the supermarket skips at the decent food they throw away - some even poor bleac...

mimosa is a fire problem here as much as the eucalyptus. so far i have found kiri: http://www.paulowniatrees.com.au/ which look very promising. eucalyptus is grown to make toilet paper, or mdf and such nasties... but any tree that would provide any economic return quickly is what i am looking for, e...

we use a fuji finepix too - less than £100 on ebay secondhand.
it does everything automatically, or you can switch it to manual, and be a bit cleverer :)

i know, not strictly vegetables! but, we have a problem here with eucalyptus (blue gum) plantations, and i am trying to find species of trees that could be a commercial pulp crop that people could plant instead of euca. needs to be fast growing, drought resistant, able to stand minus 7 degrees in ja...

and all humans are different too - some of us will presumably find soapnuts/saponins kinder on our skin, while others would find manmade detergents better. on the subject of soapnuts, i've just found a supplier of seeds for the trees, and will be trialling them next spring. perhaps in a few years we...

thanks stonehead - my postings werent meant to come across as any statement of facts - i was just asking because i dont know.

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i think i have to go back to my childhood diseases comparison. measles in the UK is rarely dangerous. but in countries where malnutrition is part of life (mainly caused by iinequitable land ownership, and an emphasis on cash crops - but thats another debate!) it is often fatal. so, big pharma compan...

i wonder whether the disease is only a problem to animals whose immune systems are already overstretched - much the same as childhood diseases normally cause few side effects, except unpleasantness for the child concerned (when i was a kid my mother toof us to visit children with mumps and measles s...

we take wwoofers:

http://www.portugalsmallholding.org

and we now run a website about wwoofing in central portugal:

http://www.wwoofcentralportugal.org

done.

hi paul if you are considering joining a rural co-op 8or setting one up) it may be useful to contact radical routes: http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk or diggers and dreamers, who also produce places needing people: http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/ good luck with your exploration of communities etc