Biodynamic Agriculture Australia Ltd in Bellingen, New South Wales | Environmental conservation organisation

Biodynamic Agriculture Australia Ltd

Locality: Bellingen, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6655 0566

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25.01.2022 Five minutes that could change you life...

24.01.2022 For anyone interested in this topic in the Adelaide Hills.

23.01.2022 Trinity College Dublin has begun transforming its front lawns into wildflower meadows after public support for the bee-friendly project.

23.01.2022 Pic of the day....

23.01.2022 Nesting season has come round. You may be familiar with my daunting sound. As I whoosh above, clapping my beak, Im protecting my children, STAY AWAY! I shriek.... I love my kids with all my heart. Im only protective to ensure their lives have a fair dinkum start! Being a Magpie parent isnt as easy as you may think. In just an instant our babies lives could be taken in a blink! I ask for your compassion for only 4-6 weeks per year. The rest of the time, there is no reason to fear! So please respect my personal space, and put in the effort of not ignoring the signs around the place! After the season is over, you can have your walking and bike routes back, but for the time being please just find another track! Guarding our nests, and predators galore, there are so many dangers I have to look out for! Menacing kids throwing sticks and stones, its no wonder we often end up with broken bones! Please understand Im more bark than bite, as I swoosh by Im only trying to cause a fright! Please dont retaliate or scream and cuss. This doesnt help matters and only aggravates us! If youre respectful to me, then Ill return the gesture dude! Please, cant we live to learn in harmony and end this needless feud? -------------------------------------- We have to stop targeting these birds because they may be a temporary inconvenience to our lives for approximately six weeks per year, whereas humans are CONSTANTLY an inconvenience to theirs. We demolish their homes which often contain nests, eggs or chicks, we bulldoze their natural habitat, we pollute their environment with pesticides and chemicals often making them sick, and we hit them with our vehicles time and time again. To put things in perspective, WE are the dangerous monsters here, not these birds. RESPECT THE WARNING SIGNS! You wouldnt likely go swimming in the ocean if you knew sharks were in the water, especially if you saw the warning signs placed along the beach. So shouldnt the same precaution and respect be equal to that of a Swooping Birds sign people come across? METHODS TO AVOID GETTING SWOOPED Seek an alternative route (if there is one.) Even if its walking that extra 500 metres or so to avoid the area, its well worth it to prevent getting swooped! If you notice a warning sign in your area, respect it and leave the vicinity. Try making friends with the magpie. Carry an appropriate food treat to offer the bird, it should not only distract him, but he should come to see you as a friend and not a foe. Dont throw objects at it, or scream and run, as this will only aggravate it further and encourage its behaviour. Wear a hat and sunnies. Travel in groups, they are less likely to approach. If youre on a bike, hop off and walk, so you dont injure yourself from the magpie frightening you. Spread the message to others that there are swooping magpies in your area. There is a website called Magpie Alert where you can view maps on where there are swooping magpie hotspots in your area.

22.01.2022 Sunday humour.......

22.01.2022 Places limited because of Covid restrictions. Book now - www.biodynamics.net.au

21.01.2022 A group of ladybugs is called a loveliness. Think about that today!

21.01.2022 Check out this cute little bee making her nest in the Flow pollinator house! This is a Fire Tailed Resin bee and it's just one of the 1500 solitary bee speci...es in Australia. Resin Bees get their name because they build their residences out of resin. Most Resin Bees build nests in narrow holes in timber but they may also use narrow crevices in other materials. Ranging in size from about 8 to 14 mm and are coloured red, orange or black. They belong to family Megachilidae and are found Australia-wide. ps. Flow Pollinator House is coming soon! Sign up to our mailing list today so you don't miss out.

21.01.2022 Australias National Wattle Day is today. Pictured below is a wattle from the Grampians National Park (I think Acacia oxycedrus- Spike wattle?). More importantl...y the "Golden Wattle Award" from Wattle Day Association Inc. goes to Australias health and medical professionals and allied workers who have been on the front line of the fight against Coronavirus to help keep the community healthy and safe. This award is recognition of their expertise, skill, dedication and very best of care and compassion to our fellow Australians. Wimmera CMA Landcare Victoria See more

20.01.2022 Is your membership up to date??? Our Spring News Leaf Journal is due out very soon.....

20.01.2022 High Density Living

19.01.2022 NOUBLIEZ PAS DE COUPER VOS CORDES AVANT DE JETER VOS MASQUES LA POUBELLE. * Pour ceux et celles qui utilisent des masques jetables (mme aprs les avoir jet dans les poubelles, un coup dans les dcharges il y a encore des grands risques pour les animaux.) www.vcreation.shop

17.01.2022 NSW Workshops cancelled due to new COVID-19 protocols. We are looking at exciting ways to deliver education. More information to follow. Apologies for any inconvenience.

15.01.2022 Should there be more aged care facilites outside major cities? This community is trying to make it happen.

15.01.2022 Learn how to make the ultimate chicken feeder. Its got the trifecta: its rat-proof, bird-proof and weather-proof. | Gardening Australia

14.01.2022 Frankston City Council is considering risking the health of their employees ,residents and pets to save money next week. The decision will also negatively effec...t both indigenous bees and honeybees. Sadly the poison will also contaminate honey produced in the area. The council previously had agreed to stop using products such as Roundup containing the alleged carcinogen glyphosate and promise to replace it with steaming , mulching, organic herbicide and brush cutting . The controversial toxic herbicide is at the centre of 10 billion dollars of litigation claims against Bayer the pharmaceutical giant that manufacturers the killing chemicals. Bayer has agreed to pay 2 billion dollars to settle litigation it inherited when it purchased Monsanto in the US and is bracing itself for international lawsuits including in Australia. https://www.google.com.au//mobil/article/amp/idUSKBN2A32MX Recent study’s reveal the chemical is more dangerous than previously thought killing vital gut bacteria. Imbalances in gut bacteria have been linked to an ever-growing array of diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression. You can contact Frankston council here and urge them to continue their pledge to not poison their population. Frankston City Council Tel: 1300 322 322 [email protected] Petition www.change.org/Glyphosate

14.01.2022 Fantastic BBC film from the Northern Hemisphere which shows in wonderful detail the cycle of death and rebirth in autumn.

14.01.2022 Interesting article on early Merino development....

13.01.2022 Ever seen this before? Its actually a passionfruit vine called sweet Lilikoi passiflora alata. It makes an ornamental climbing vine and produces deliciously sweet fruit. Quite dramatic to look at, too! by @engineeringagriculturall via Gardening Australia

12.01.2022 Are you interested in Bee courses? These are in NSW.... Upcoming events and training Beginning in Bees short course: Held at Tocal College 11 February, 25 February, 8 March and 8 April 2021. Contact Bianca Giggins 1800 025 520 for more information or go to https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/courses/bees/beginning-in-bees... Spring management of honey bee colonies short course: Held at Tocal College 22 February and 5 March 2021. Contact Bianca Giggins 1800 025 520 for more information or go to https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au//spring-management-in-honey-b Queen bee breeding short course: Held at Tocal College 1 March and 15 April 2021. Contact Bianca Giggins 1800 025 520 for more information or go to https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/courses/bees/queen-bee-breeding Native stingless bees short course: Held at Tocal College 22 March 2021. Contact Bianca Giggins 1800 025 520 for more information or go to https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/courses//native-stingless-bees Honeybee biosecurity short course: Held at Tocal College 10 April 2021. Contact Bianca Giggins 1800 025 520 for more information or go to https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/courses//Honey-Bee-Biosecurity These courses are planned for face-to-face delivery, pending any change in circumstances due to COVID-19.

11.01.2022 Flight of the Bumblebee Photo via Rim Ski Korsa Kov

11.01.2022 Great innovation from a local company.

09.01.2022 There is a desperate need for nesting boxes in WA for these beautiful birds.... have you seen any near you?...

08.01.2022 When renting, its not like you can just pick up your beloved garden and take it with you to your next home...or can you? | Gardening Australia

08.01.2022 Delightful Dandelions. So many beneficial uses, medicinally and biodynamically. Check out the dandelion flower from our Biodynamic Agriculture Farm in Bellingen NSW. Beautiful ! ... "The difference between a flower and weed is a judgement".... Wayne W. Dyer For more info check out our webpage https://biodynamics.net.au/

08.01.2022 :..: Bluey Manoeuvres :..: a 2min expression session! sound on Swivelling & oscillating with their ‘In flight’ entertainment skills, local Amegilla asserta ...bees were dancing around the flowers & nourishing on the nectar flow! Amegilla asserta : Bluey Bombo Beach Nsw .................................. .............................. ......................... .................... ............... .......... ..... . #bees #nativebees #australiannative #bluebandedbee #sydneynativebees Australian Pollinator Week

08.01.2022 Our Spring News Leaf 124 journal is filled to the brim with informative and inspirational articles. Check out our webpage to freely subscribe and/or become a member to receive the quarterly News Leaf journal, along with biodynamic advice and benefits on products and workshops. Its great value! Dont delay, because if you join before the end of this week you will receive our September issue in the mail.

08.01.2022 First Australian night bees recorded foraging in darkness Eco Voice | November 2, 2020 Australian bees are known for pollinating plants on beautiful sunny days,... but a new study has identified two species that have adapted their vision for night-time conditions for the first time. The study by a team of ecology researchers has observed night time foraging behaviour by a nomiine (Reepenia bituberculata) and masked (Meroglossa gemmata) bee species, with both developing enlarged compound and simple eyes which allow more light to be gathered when compared to their daytime kin. In results published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, the researchers explain that this improved low-light ability could potentially also exist in other Australian species secretly active at night, with their image processing ability best observed through high-resolution close-up images. PhD Candidate James Dorey, in the College of Science & Engineering at Flinders University, says the two Australian bee species active at night and during twilight hours are mostly found in Australia’s tropical north, but there could potentially more in arid, subtropical and maybe even temperate conditions across the continent. We have confirmed the existence of at least two crepuscular bee species in Australia and there are likely to be many more that can forage both during the day and into the early morning or evening under low light conditions. It’s true that bees aren’t generally known to be very capable when it comes to using their eyes at night, but it turns out that low-light foraging is more common than currently thought, says Mr Dorey. Before this study, the only way to show that a bee had adapted to low-light was by using difficult-to-obtain behavioural observations, but we have found that you should be able to figure this out by using high-quality images of a specific bee. Mr Dorey says bees that forage during dim-light conditions aren’t studied enough with no previously reliable published records for any Australian species. Our study provides a framework to help identify low-light-adapted bees and the data that is needed to determine the behavioural traits of other species. This is important as we need to increase efforts to collect bee species outside of normal hours and publish new observations to better understand the role that they play in maintaining ecosystems.

08.01.2022 Excited to be delivering this vital education in Northern NSW in August. Book now to avoid disappointment.

06.01.2022 As a cattle farmer in New South Wales' Riverina agricultural region, Robert Ellis has a keen interest in the weather. The day he captured these mammatus clouds,... Robert said he'd never seen a cloud formation like it. 'Like I do every day I looked out the window to see what the sky was doing and spotted these spectacular clouds, and thought, ‘I'd better get my camera.’ And we are so glad he did! Mammatus clouds form in sinking air. As air descends, the water in the air evaporates. Under certain atmospheric conditions this evaporation causes an increased downward movement of air, which drags the cloud down with it. The result of this is sagging pouches or bulges from the underside of a cloud. These moody Mammatus clouds are the October image for the 2021 Australian Weather Calendar. You can get your copy at http://ow.ly/ftuR50CjoOS #BOMCalendar : Mammatus cloud at Oberne Creek, New South Wales Robert Ellis, 25 October 2019

06.01.2022 Shane Martin of "Nungra Gardens Spraying Service" would like members to know he will be spraying your biodynamic preparations in the locations of: South Coast NSW - October Southern Highlands NSW - November Hunter Valley NSW - November... Contact Shane if you would like to utilize his services on 0421 228 499

06.01.2022 Balloons do not go to heaven. They land in the ocean and choke sea turtles, kill dolphins and whales, and the ribbons entangle birds. Many times, they end up on... a beach as litter. Even the ones marked "biodegradable" can hurt animals before they have a chance to break down. Animals far from the ocean, such as horses, have been hurt and killed by balloons (they eat them when they land in their hay or they get spooked and bolt). Some balloons have started fires when they got entangled in power lines. Sky lanterns have set homes, power lines, trees, and buildings on fire. Sky lanterns can also entangle an animal even if it is marketed as "biodegradable." There are many safe alternatives to releasing litter into the air, such as planting a tree for your loved one and watching it bloom, or blowing bubbles into the air. Grief is a painful process. In our grief, we do not need to cause others grief. While there are many environmental problems facing our planet, this is a very simple one to solve. Study: Balloons Kill More Seabirds Than Any Other Plastic. Here are some alternatives: https://returntonow.net//study-balloons-are-the-most-dead/

05.01.2022 It’s a lot nicer watching a goat eat something than watching a lawn mower or a brushcutter, says Michael Blewitt, owner of Dry Creek Farm, based in Mudgee, whi...ch rents out mobs of goats to help landowners get on top of their weed problems. He would know. After buying a farm a few years ago, Blewitt discovered he and his partner were the accidental owners of around 13 hectares of blackberry, which is such an environmental nasty it’s labelled a weed of national significance. But with a vulnerable newborn in their midst, they were reluctant to use herbicide to bring the thorny weed to heel, and instead looked to permaculture for their solution. One of the mantras of permaculture is ‘the problem is the solution’, he says. So you’ve got a problem with blackberry, you just need to have something that eats it. It’s a solution that requires no fuel apart from that used to transport them and generates only biodegradable waste. You get them in, graze through an area, you’ve cycled the nutrients and that improves your soil. Goats will eat a huge range of weeds, including blackberry, thistles, scotch broom, honeysuckle and wisteria. They’re aided by their prehensile lips, which enable them to negotiate their way around thorns and prickles to reach the tasty greenery. A mob of around a dozen goats can get through a blackberry patch the size of a single-car garage in around a day. His goats are even helping to control weeds in public parks and on school grounds. There’s no chemicals, no noise, and all the kids love it. https://www.theguardian.com//unstoppable-eating-machines-w

04.01.2022 If youve grown citrus trees at home, youre likely to have come across swollen galls on your grapefruit, lemon, lime or orange. They are caused by citrus gall ...wasps (Bruchophagus fellis). While the galls generally wont kill trees, they can seriously impact their vigour, reducing the size and yield of fruit, and causing growth to be weak and spindly. Jane shows us how to say goodbye to gall wasps! See more

04.01.2022 Do you only have a small space to garden?......

03.01.2022 I wondered what to do with these items rather than putting them in the rubbish bin...

03.01.2022 https://staggdla.com//top-10-plants-that-date-your-garden-

03.01.2022 Fantastic pics of birds and our native wildlife.

03.01.2022 I have posted Gina Cranson Artworks work before but I love her posters of Bees in Australia, both Native Bees and introduced. Etsy.com has her posters for sale. https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/GinaCransonArtworks

02.01.2022 Most Councils have applications open for registering for Spray Free. Spring is close so please register to stop deadly herbicides killing our pollinators.

01.01.2022 Check out the size of this earthworm! Two bushwalkers found it over in Queensland on the weekend. Has anyone seen anything like it here in WA? This big guy ...is believed to be a digaster longmani, or a giant earthworm. They can grow up to 2 metres, but they usually live in deep permanent burrows and rarely come to the surface - unless their holes are flooded by heavy rain. : Reddit/Dreadedbugqueen, BermVonCrashen