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One giant leap for bettongs released into sanctuary as wildlife conservancy aims to operate on 5% of Australia

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One giant leap for bettongs released into sanctuary as wildlife conservancy aims to operate on 5% of Australia

The ‘ecosystem engineers’ will roam a cat- and fox-free former sheep farm and help spread seeds and improve soils with their digging

Like a ball of fur mounted on a spring, they leapt into the crisp night air and on to a landscape of acacia scrub where they hadn’t roamed free for maybe a 100 years or more.

The Australian Wildlife Conservancy last month released 147 of the brush-tailed bettongs on to its sanctuary at Mount Gibson, about a four-hour drive north-east of Perth on the edge of the wheatbelt.

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Response to “Neither Conventional nor GMO Article. What’s the Place of ‘New Genomic Techniques’ in Organic Agriculture?”

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Response to “Neither Conventional nor GMO Article. What’s the Place of ‘New Genomic Techniques’ in Organic Agriculture?”

The article,” Neither Conventional nor GMO. What’s the Place of ‘New Genomic Techniques’ in Organic Agriculture?” was inserted by error into the Regeneration International newsletter. We strongly disagree with this article for several reasons.This article is a GMO industry reiteration of many similar articles they have used to lobby industry, governments, and consumers to get the newer methods of modifying genetic material in plants and animals (‘new genomic techniques’ or ‘NGTs’) not classified as GMOs.

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Greenhouse Grower to Grower Podcast: A Preview of AmericanHort’s Impact Washington With Matt Mika

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Greenhouse Grower to Grower Podcast: A Preview of AmericanHort’s Impact Washington With Matt Mika

In this episode, we talk to Matt Mika, Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs at AmericanHort, about the important issues Impact Washington attendees will be discussing on Capitol Hill.

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Chemical-free leafhopper removal

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Chemical-free leafhopper removal

I can’t tell if this was genius or if this was an obvious, well-known solution and I’m slow to the game.

My grape got infested with leaf hoppers. I took a stick to the vine to agitate the leaves and vacuumed up the clouds of insects that came out with a shopvac. There was an obvious difference immediately. We’ve kept it up twice a day and it seems to have made a huge difference. Here’s hoping it keeps working

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Easiest and best way to charge a bunch of biochar ? No, do not have compost heap

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Easiest and best way to charge a bunch of biochar ? No, do not have compost heap

AGAIN- DO NOT HAVE A COMPOST HEAP

going to be adding a bunch of purchased compost to some planting beds this fall. found a big sack of biochar someone gave/traded a while back. roughly size of 5gal bucket. should help the crummy sandy soil so in it goes. seems folks like to charge the char while compost being made but we dont have that option.

what we do have is access to possibly some horse manure (not sure how old), fresh azolla, and local landscape yards that have steer and chicken manure compost. sometimes they have grape skin/seed compost (post harvest).

should we make a compost/manure slurry and charge the char?

or is it fine to just use a liquid fert product like fish/kelp fertilizer? i’m kinda hoping that should be ok since its easiest and i assume fastest. also since we’re going to be adding compost to the beds in addition to the char, we dont want it to suck up nutrients if we didnt age it long enough.

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Japanese Knotweed Myths & What Does Work?

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Japanese Knotweed Myths & What Does Work?

Japanese knotweed is one of the most notorious invasive plants in temperate gardens—but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Let’s bust some myths and explain the latest science on how to control it. Key Takeaways Get to Know Japanese Knotweed Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica, synonyms Fallopia japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum) is native to eastern Asia and was … Read More

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Anyway to positively ID these without fruit?

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Anyway to positively ID these without fruit?

These are growing wild in the woods behind my house but there is so much shade they never Bloom. I transplanted these about a month ago to see if I could get some fruit. Google Lens tells me they are black raspberries or blackberries or poison ivy.🤣 and even once told me it was milkweed. So I guess it’s a different answer for whatever mood it is in.

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