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Thanks for the welcome, everyone.

100 acres is reasonably small by Australian standards. Some of the large cattle stations muster cattle using helicopters!

Hi Wombat, fancy meeting you here!! There's a 'whole food' store in Albury that has a garden out the front of the shop. Now I don't know whether it's on private or public land, but instead of the usual petunias, snapdragons etc., this garden is planted with a border of parsley, a rosemary bush in th...

Hi, I found your site via a link posted on an Australian website - Aussies Living Simply. The link posted was to the 'ciderish' recipe which I'd followed and was having problems with. Thank you to those people who answered my question. My better half, (whose online name in various things is "Th...

Thanks for the reply. The recipe doesn't actually use any yeast which is why I thought maybe I should give it a kick with a wine yeast. It certainly couldn't need warming up. I'm in Australia and the temperatures have been in the mid to high 20s (celsius) most days with the occasional foray into low...

Hi all, I'm a member of Aussies Living Simply and a link was posted to your Ciderish recipe which I've been following and now have some at the ready to bottle stage. However, the cider is extremely sweet - considerably more so than a sweet cider. In fact it's like an apple flavoured sugar syrup. As ...