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Damn. Was hoping for something along the lines of 'world's most effective slug repellent'. Looks like it's off to the dump for someone else to deal with. At least it's recycled...

Thanks Jon,

Will keep an eye out for terre végétale. And thanks for the blog love - likewise, your blogs make excellent reading. Will definitely make time to see more. Bon journée.

Alex

OK, so we put three pigs on about half an acre of sloping grass for a couple of months. Which they turned into a sea of mud. Naturally. So we moved them into the woods where they're happy as pigs in, obviously, woods. Now we have to improve the soil they left behind. It's not completely clay, but yo...

This is a long shot, but I just emptied about five litres of very black engine oil from a diesel tractor. I wondered if there is ANYTHING USEFUL this will do, before I take it down to the dump.

On a related note, what does the dump do with it?

Thanks for that. We did manage to find a couple of weaners over near Le Bugue. We'll pick them up in a week or so, as soon as we've built an ark and fenced the future veggie patch.

Cheers for those extra contacts, though.

Does anyone know of piglets that are available for purchase in the Dordogne area of France? Traditional breed preferably for outdoor living in oak woodland.

I know. I've come across the making money by having the Chinese pollute on our behalf thing before. A friend of mine at Action South Facing suggested I look at www.solara.de (I'm in France). It's not just my own politics that are driving the need to source locally - we're setting up a very low carbo...

I had a meeting someone the other day. His panels were VERY attractively priced. (Under €900 for an integrated 195litre system.) During the meeting, he let slip that he sourced some of the gear from China. Obviously, we can't buy into the idea of shipping our emissions to the other side of the wor...

G'day Wombat. Or maybe, g'night. Maybe cultivation is the wrong word. What we did on our large-ish allotment in Brighton was organic raised beds which we rotated each year. Very soon, the soil got really easy to work, and the beds that had our own kitchen compost were doing brilliantly. We don't kno...

I just posted "Tractor or horse" as my first forum question.

How much can you pull with 1 hp?

We sold our small house in Brighton, bought ten and a half acres of wood and grass, and are in the very earliest stages of becoming smallholders (specifically, waiting for planning permission to live on our land in yurts, and set up a very small, very low-carbon yurt campsite). Only found this site ...