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SKG Sangha, India, Biogas and fertiliser from slurry

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SKG Sangha won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. TO find out more visit http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com

SKG Sangha has radically improved the lives of thousands of rural families in Karnataka, South India by supplying them with both dung based biogas plants for cooking and a specially designed unit that turns the slurry from the biogas plant into high quality fertiliser. The benefits of biogas are well known. It provides rural women with a cheap, reliable source of energy as well as reducing indoor air pollution and easing pressure on forest resources. Less well known is how turning the biogas residue into high quality fertiliser can increase crop yields and, more importantly, give rural women the chance to make a profit. The units supplied by SKG Sangha produce fertiliser simply by combining the slurry with straw and leaves and then adding worms which re-digest the mixture to produce vermicompost. This vermicompost improves the yields of family crops and the liquid output from the unit can be used as an organic pesticide. The growing demand in India for organic fertiliser means that women can earn as much from selling half the vermicompost they produce as the household earns from selling the crops they grow. Since 1993, SKG Sangha has installed over 43,000 biogas plants in the state of Karnataka alone.

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Organic Dairyman: Birdhouses

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A long string of pink bird houses line the Bansen dairy farm.

Not merely for decoration, these bird houses provide nesting grounds for the swallows that feed on flies, using nature to control insect pests naturally.

To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/

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Exterior and Grounds

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Much nicer when it’s green, but still real nice. A hotub would be very appropriate at the North end of the house for the guests to relax and enjoy the breathtaking view. A large firepit area (or multiple) would be added at appropriate places on the property. It would also be the intention of Craig and Jennifer to add an Organic Garden that would supply as much as possible of Global Bed and Breakfast’s fresh produce (a greenhouse could be added in the future). A large front fence (Ie. Stone could be added to this property to add curb appeal and also added security if an electronic gate was added in the future. The property already has a home security system (monitoring fire as well) that is tied into the local authorities – police was unintentionally tested on one of the viewings and I saw them speed by within 4 minutes of the alarm being triggered. Please also note that one could throw a rock from the south end of this property and land it on the ‘Meadowlands Golf Course’ which I would intend to get a ‘rotating membership’ that could be shared amoung guests and a golf cart that we could drive right onto the course from the Bed and Breakfast with.

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Ninderry Nursery for Trees, Fruit Trees, Plants, Palms and Shrubs

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Dont go to the Home Garden Expo at Nambour …WHY?
Because EVERYDAY is a Home Garden Expo day at Ninderry Nursery….if its plants trees and shrubs or ground covers to Natives you’ll love Ninderry Nursery…
Why go to the biggest “Fast Food” fest and gadget alley show on the sunshine coast when all you want is plants…
and, they’re all over priced at the expo to cover their excessive costs of being there anyway… so this week its free fruit trees at Birdwood Nursery till all gone ! ….just another gimic?
So if its garden Advice and Plants you need come see the REAL experts at Ninderry Nursery and avoid the controversial media stars trying to outdo one another at the over crowded over rated expensive version EXPO and come see us first or see us last but come see us for the right choice at the right price…..
Avoid the Spruikers selling gadgets, the noise, the crowds,the food poisoning! and the terrible brown coloured water they call coffee …..try our real organic coffee at our lovely cafe….. It’s REAL organic from COLOMBIA …YUM
Yes as you guessed… we tell it like it is! ….sometimes it aint pretty
But Ninderry Nursery is georgeous…. see you there …..

enjoy our youtube video and contact us
www.treesonline.com.au
www.ninderrynursery@bigpond.com

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