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Are Eucalypts Weeds?
For many years they’ve been seen as a symbol of pride in Australia. Expatriate writers in the 50’s and 60’s would write about returning to Sydney by ship and about being greeted by the smell of wafting gum tree leaves as they waxed lyrical about the nostalgia they felt for home. Authorities still plant them everywhere. In parks, next to footpaths, street corners, new housing development estates, Eucalypts are as Australian as the Emu and the Kangaroo. They are seen nearly everywhere and nobody seems to take them as a...
read moreThe Permaculture Goat Shed
What started off as an introduction to building a basic shed for housing goats turns into a lesson in cycling nutrients and understanding Permaculture.
When Ecofilms asked Elisabeth Fekonia to show us her goat milking shed we wondered what those two covered bathtubs in the corner of the shed were doing there? What we got was a lesson in Permaculture nutrient cycling and simple effective design that just works without costing you a lot of money.
Raising Healthy Goats with Mugwort
Getting goats to nibble on Mugwort is not easy. Elisabeth says it took her cattle and goats about a year of grazing before they attempted to nibble on this plant. Now they readily nibble on this plant only when they feel the urge to expel parasites from their system.
read morePeter Andrews at Mulloon Creek
Its not often that you get to meet a living legend everyday and lets face it, the term is bandied around for all sorts of people, sportsmen and even celebrities – all the time. But Peter Andrews is different. Here is a guy not afraid to speak his mind and more importantly – back it up with evidence. We were invited down last year by Tony Coote the owner of Mulloon Creek Natural Farms to look at the possibility of doing a documentary explaining the work done on his farm. Tony had seen our Water Harvesting DVD that we made with...
read moreFilming Aquaponics Secrets
Over the last 10 months we’ve been busy filming part two of Murray Hallam’s Aquaponics Made Easy video series. We believe in giving people a lot of quality information in our DVDs and the response from people who have bought Murray’s previous DVD has been overwhelming. Yesterday we spent the entire day with Murray who has devoted years trialling and testing innovative advances in Aquaponics equipment and techniques and is now sharing his knowledge with the public. The problem for us is no sooner than we film a segment on a...
read moreWhere The Best Eggs are Made
Tony Coote believes his chickens lay the best eggs on the planet and he’s got the proof to prove it. The eggs from his 12,000 chicken farm located at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms near Canberra were independently analysed by the Government CSIRO laboratories and found to contain twice the amount of Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids that are found in conventional chicken farm eggs.
read moreAquaponics Secrets DVD
Currently in production is Murray Hallam’s brand new DVD “Aquaponics Secrets” which will take you beyond the basics and will reveal some of the more hard to understand stuff of raising fish and vegetables in an organic natural system.
read moreEstablishing a Food Forest DVD
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden. We start with a 20 minute Permaculture Classroom as Geoff explains the patterns of a Food Forest and the essential principles of “time stacking” your garden with the right mix of support species that feed and protect your fledgling fruit trees into maturity. We then join Geoff in the field as he puts the...
read moreAquaponics Made Easy DVD
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCV7DABEz20[/youtube] The most popular Aquaponics video clip on YouTube is “Aquaponics Made Easy” with the biggest number of views – and for good reason. It features Murray Hallam who is one of Australia’s premium sellers of Aquaponics Kits sharing years of knowledge and its has been Ecofilm’s most successful title, having gone through a number of editions. Murray’s humorous, informed and conversational style was a great hit with audiences around the world and...
read moreElisabeth Fekonia’s Home Cheesemaking DVD
Even if you’ve never milked a cow before, she’ll show you how to do that successfully.
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