DAIRY, FOOD OR FOE ?Are we grown- ups meant to eat dairy food? This is a very controversial and multi-faceted question, and the best biological answer as always is “It depends”. The answer depends on whether the milk was produced organically or conventionally; on your genes and allergies as well as the state of your…
Merri Bee Organic Farmacy Nursery
We grow organic plants and animals for your permaculture. From house cows to garlic bulbs, we are working on it. As an avid gardener I use to spend a fortune at nurseries but I began to realise that the beautiful and abundant blooms in punnets and pots were achieved by a LOT of chemicals. Some…
Veganism is preventing wide spread adoption of regenerative grazing, the most effective action on climate change.
Just WHAT is going on? My social circle is polarized and the subject is almost banned as too touchy. The nicest people I know have been sucked in by simplistic vegan propaganda.The way out of climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, and growing enough food to nourish a burgeoning population is clear. It’s called regenerative agriculture,…
Rabbit Fricassee
What do you call this love?? RABBIT. How to make Rabbit Fricassee. Or….getting your own back when Peter Rabbit eats all your carrot tops off . This is an example of a GAPS meal suitable for stage one of Intro and all the way to full GAPS. All ingredients must be organic…. this is a…
Save the Yarragadee
“All governments are only interested in centralised control ” Bill Mollison The Water Corporation want to increase the water they pump from the Yarragadee by a factor of 3. They dont know what this will do to shallow aquifers, forest, rivers and surface water. “The Warren Blackwood regional water supply scheme, historically relied on independent…
Raw Honey from Merri Bee Organic Farmacy
There are places in the world where honey is revered for it’s medicinal qualities, and some types particularly so. Carob honey and Jujube or Sidr honey are 2 cases in point. It so happens that both are being produced on a wild and isolated permaculture in Nannup Western Australia. Tough carobs, olives and oaks were…
Raised garden beds: Huglekulture instead of burning fallen trees and branches. Hugelkulture instead of irrigation.
Huglekulture. For if you have piles of dead tree wood lying around and want to clear it away. Hugle kulture is a creative and productive use for it than burning it into ash and particulate matter and toxins in the air. If you prefer to grow food with less irrigation and create shady and sheltered…
It’s Crunch Time.
I recently qualified as a certified GAPS coach, but for 37 years our farm in Nannup has been increasing diversity in the plant, animal and fungal worlds whilst continuously building living soil. We believe health is Mother Nature’s laws obeyed and we champion a healthy environment, freedom and a healthy democracy. We grow organic, raw,…
It’s May !
Harvest season . Some wonderful early rain in a few big doses but long warm spells in between has the farm looking lovely. We are all dealing with so much these days, hope you enjoy these scenes from the Farmacy . May is the month that Fuerte avos can be picked, and hooray for them….
Trust me I’m a doctor, and I ‘m here to shame you.
This is a critique of an ABC article. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-04/vaccine-message-to-anti-vaxxers/13114344 which made my blood boil. To avoid censorship I have tried to replace C with a K in all references to The Virus. My words are in Italics . Dr. Rebecca writes: One of my best friends here in Austria is a musician with four kids….
Nannup Flower and Garden Festival 2020
Looking forward to running farm tours for the 5 weekends of the festival, start August 14th ! Here is what it says on their website: https://www.nannupgardens.org.au/festival-events/ Merri Bee Organic Farmacy – Open Friday Saturday & Sunday Location: 48 Thomas Rd Nannup Enquiries: Stewart Seesink & Bee Winfield 9756 1408 Times Open: Open for tours every Friday Saturday and Sunday at…
Garlic is Wonderful
Gratitude for Garlic There may be one good thing about social distancing …it is a good time to do a course of garlic cloves. GAPS practitioners use garlic as an antibiotic, because it is a powerfully good, registered anti biotic which ONLY kills the bad bugs, not all your beneficial bugs as well. What a…
Perennial Pasture establishment
It’s time to think about the coming wet season, and growing a prairie. Why? Because prairies actually sequester more carbon than forests. Both are sorely needed and we humans must grow them to replace what we have destroyed and rebuild our soil resource, or go the way of the White Pointer. Prairies are amazingly diverse….
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