Yes I've heard of the Diggers club... I have one of their catalogues around somewhere. I know a bit about seed saving. I do it myself with parsley. I'm growing some carrots ATM but they are from a free packet of seeds from DS's school... I wonder if I let some of them go to seed will they be sterile... I didn't know about that shifty practise
Just dashed outside to check the carrot packet label... it's in the soil next to where they are growing Yay! They are from the Diggers Club!
I used to work for an Agricultural Consultants in my late teens/early 20s and I've seen reports of what happens to feedlot cattle (the hormones, antibiotics etc pumped into them to get them "beefed" up ready for market in a very short period of time) - which is why I'll go to the farmers market or to an organic butcher, I prefer farmers markets because I can talk to the owner of the farm about the conditions of their property and their livestock. I love the farmers market in the CBD in brissy every Wednesday, yeh the organic meat is a bit more expensive (and yummier !!!) but yesterday I got to chat to the (cute) farmer who's beef cattle were slaughtered to give me the organic beef I purchased - yes I asked about the slaughtering methods too.
I've just taken out some corn cobs that I bought last week and they're still fresh - and the best thing about getting farm fresh corn is that I can save the cornsilk to make a tea because I know I'll get a bladder problem in about 2 days due to where I am in my cycle.
Kitt3n, you can post the link provided it is not to a commercial website or link to another forum at all.
AngelPUnks, I don't agree with intensive feedlotting either, but it has become a necessary evil dictated by greedy consumers who cannot wait for the beef to grow in it's own time - they want it NOW! There is a feedlot not far from us who we have supplied grain to a few times and I had no idea just how large and miserable looking it was till they showed it on the local news in connection to thm having to lay off over 100 staff etc. It panned out across the feedlot and there was acre after acre after acre of cows in small yards, no grass, no trees and all the fences were lined with feed troughs. It would be a real depressing place to work I reckon. We have done a small feedlot for our lambs once, but they were in a small enclosure, surrounded by trees, grass underfoot and it didn't look anything like a 'traditional' feedlot. In the end the outcome was no different - they still grew at the same rate and sold for only slightly higher prices than when we haven't done a feedlot.
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