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01/01/2005 |
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Submitted:
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08/04/2011 |
Last updated:
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16/02/2016 |
Location:
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Cherokee, Victoria, AU |
Climate zone:
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Cool Temperate |
(projects i'm involved in)
Project: Fernglade Farm
Posted by Chris McLeod over 9 years ago
It’s the 26th of January here and for people
in Australia that means Australia day which is a public holiday. Yay! The public holiday
celebrates the landing of the First Fleet on the continent way back on the exact same
day in 1788. For those that don’t know it, the First Fleet comprised quite a
few ships carrying a whole bunch of criminals, some military to supervise them
and a couple of free settlers of questionable sanity. The first sensible act upon
arriving on this continent was to send ships off to obtain more supplies from
the nearest English colonies. It quickly became evident that a bunch of
criminals from urban areas of the UK really knew very little about farming in a strange and unfamiliar
environment. Needless to say, the whole
lot of them almost starved.
I have a wide streak of irreverence so for me the 26th
of January is to be celebrated for the national government funded and commercial
free youth radio station which is broadcast across most of the continent:
Triple J - because that radio station hosts the Hottest 100 countdown. As a fun
fact listeners vote over the Internet for a limit of 10 songs per listener and
just to show how much attention the countdown receives here, there were
more than 2,000,000 votes. That’s right 2 million votes. That’s a whole lot of votes. In
fact it is the biggest music poll anywhere on the planet. And yes, I’m outing
myself here as something of a youth music tragic because I’ve been listening to
the countdown and also the radio station since 1994. Long live the government funded
commercial free youth oriented music radio station Triple J! That alone makes
me happy to pay my taxes, it does.
Back to the real world and in breaking farm news: The first
steel step has been installed for the cantina shed. It is looking good
and most importantly of all, steel is far less prone to bouts of spontaneous combustion
during a bushfire than a treated pine step (which was the material it
replaced)!
For the rest of the blog entry: http://ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-seed-of-idea.html
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