Thanks heaps - that's chock full of information and has already spurred on an idea!
The sand at our local beaches is black from the magnetite. Bacteria can use magnetite as a type of energy storage. I've been intending to get some for our garden beds after having checked with council that...
This passed Sunday we decided, after almost 5 years in our rural acre in the hill country of Taranaki, New Zealand - just the two of us and a dog, that we'd best get chickens and figure out the process of keeping a rolling flock for meat and egg production.
On Monday I found a listing on our...
