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Enough Is Enough! – It’s Time To Stand Up and Be Counted!

I have only recently become aware of the potential for environmental disaster linked to the extraction of coal seam gas. This morning I received an email from my brother, Bryan, featuring a YouTube video that had a profound effect upon me. I was horrified and enraged to witness the potential

The Beauty of Simplicity – An Interview with Kevin McDonald

Recently I travelled home to New Zealand for a family wedding. During my visit I was shopping at a health food shop and purchased a little book called “Learn to Listen”. I read the book and was fascinated with the content. When checking the author’s details I found that

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Starving For Sulfur

What protective mineral fell free from the skies for many decades until legislation shut down supply? Ironically, this “pollutant” counters toxicity in humans and animals and helps to neutralise the negatives associated with excess nitrates in the food chain and environment. This pungent nutrient is also one of the best

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The Magic of Molybdenum

Which often-neglected trace mineral can seriously reduce your fertiliser costs, decrease insect pressure and increase shelf-life of your produce (even though it is applied at just handfuls per hectare)? This same micronutrient, often ignored in soil tests, has also been shown to increase yield by as much as 600%! Accessing

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Finding Your Feet – Using Your Soles as a Cleansing Tool

The Chinese call the feet the second kidney in reference to their role in detoxification. The feet contain over 2000 pores, which can serve as pathways for both the uptake of nutrients and removal of waste products and contaminants. When your socks smell it can be evidence of the body

Questioning The Status Quo (Part 2)

Have you ever felt like you are painted into a corner? Your one cash crop seems to require more chemical and fertiliser inputs each year but prices for your produce remain static. Welcome to modern agriculture, where precious food producers have been railroaded into an input-driven system on the premise

Organics vs Conventional – Comparing Costs & Benefits for the Grower

It is often assumed that a move to organic growing involves a sacrifice. There is an expectation that yields will drop and you will fall in a financial hole for 2 or 3 years until lower input costs and higher premiums for your produce help to compensate. That may have

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FIR Sauna Stories – Pumping out the Junk

This week I am in Taree in NSW giving a four-day Certificate course. During the last break I was approached by a woman who had attended one of my courses previously. She shared a personal experience that I found fascinating. I asked if she would mind if I included it

Questioning the Status Quo (Part 1)

It is essential that we fully understand both our past and our present circumstances to enable the move toward a more sustainable future. Often this involves an honest appraisal of where we are at and how we got there, and to do this we need to look behind the veil

Foliar Fertilising – The Top 10 Questions

Foliar feeding of plant nutrients is a relatively new agricultural technique compared to the long history of agriculture, and consequently is often poorly understood. At NTS we have been doing research on foliar applications of nutrients and have obtained some excellent results. Further, we have a large range of products

Tri-Kelp™ – A Multi Purpose Marvel

If you have yet to discover the many benefits of kelp in agriculture, then do yourself a favour and experiment with foliar spays or soil applications of liquid seaweed in your particular crop. There are now no cost limitations upon the use of kelp because the introduction of Tri-Kelp™ soluble

World’s Leading Vineyard Uses NTS

Domaine de la Romanee Conti is widely considered to be the world’s greatest wine producer and it is certainly amongst the most expensive. The new vintages sell for $2000 per bottle and the more seasoned versions are sold for two or three times this amount. This vineyard doesn’t

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Yield Building with Twin Pack Simplicity

If you are aware of the research relating to the efficacy of foliar fertilising, then you will understand that this method of nutrient delivery is 12 to 15 times more efficient than soil-based fertilising. Not only do you bypass soil-based lock-ups and mineral antagonism (where excesses of one mineral limit

The Biological Imperative

It is a privilege to witness the positive changes unfolding in response to the massive challenges confronting modern agriculture. In a classic example of the silver lining that can sometimes be found in storm clouds, two looming crises are set to trigger tremendous outcomes for the soil, the people and

Chia – Anatomy of a Superfood

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, suggested that our food should be our medicine and our medicine our food. The profundity of that statement is now quantified on a regular basis as science unravels the mind-boggling array of protective biochemicals found in fresh food. It is not just the new

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How Superior Is Natural Chelation?

We are often asked why it is necessary to invest in chelated products rather than simple sulfate-based trace elements, so we finally decide to invest some research funds in a comparison. We decided to use manganese as an example, as this is a deficiency we see so often when analysing

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Impressive Results in NZ

Theory is fine but results are the bottom line, so I have focused upon the achievements of a variety of biological farmers in this issue. I have just returned from a ten day visit to New Zealand where we conducted our four-day Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture, a one-day Human Health

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Dairy Farmers Discover a New Way

It is amazing to witness the positive impact one group can have on an industry. Recently we have seen a flood of interest from the Tasmanian and Victorian dairy industries. In fact we have recently conducted two, well-attended four-day Certificate courses, specifically for the dairy industry, with a third one

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Moving Malaysia

I recently spent a week consulting and lecturing in Malaysia on behalf of our new distributors in that region, a company called PanelTek. Michael Cheong, the CEO of this company, is a fine example of why retirement is such a ridiculous concept if you are passionate in what you do.

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Success on Norfolk Island

We recently completed our first four-day Certificate course on Norfolk Island and we hope that it will become an annual event. Norfolk is becoming a showpiece for biological agriculture, so the fifth day, where we build in a field trip to see the priciples in practice, was really something special.

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7 Reasons To Purchase a Soil pH Meter

1. Soil pH has a major impact upon nutrient availability. The ideal pH is 6.4 and any substantial variation from this figure spells less nutrition for your crop or garden. 2. The pH reading on your soil test reflects an average of the area tested. A user-friendly device like

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Ten Reasons to Own A Refractometer

A refractometer is an invaluable pocket tool that measures dissolved solids in plant sap. Leaf tissue is balled up and rolled between the hands until green pigment is released. It is then placed inside the well of a garlic crusher and juice (plant sap) is expressed. A few drops of

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The Bugs That Can Save The World

I have been researching a new presentation for my Radiance Health Festival between Christmas and New Year. It is called “Healthy Soils, Hardy People, Happy Planet” and it covers the inextricable intertwining of our food producing soils, personal health, community health and the environment. There is, of course, a heavy

The Refractometer – An Indispensable Monitoring Tool

Graeme Sait demonstrates the use of the refractometer, an invaluable tool in sustainable agriculture to monitor plant health and inherent pest resistance. Brix levels are a guideline to nutrient density, disease resistance, frost protection, soil fertility, crop quality and yield. If you cannot see or play this video, please download

Graeme in the Garden

Here is a short video blog from Graeme Sait. He discusses a few of the benefits of having a vegetable garden and gives some information about the fertiliser used. A must see. Check out our Life Force® Home Garden Range website here. Click here to download a copy of our