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Horse & Land Owner Story: A place to Call Home

Posted by Equine Permaculture on April 25, 2016

Published in Horses and People Magazine Feb 2016 A secluded corner of the Lockyer Valley has, for the second time around, become home to European settlers chasing their dream; to…

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Paddock subdivision allows more strategic grazing

Posted by Equine Permaculture on March 16, 2016

Published in the Horses and People Magazine March 2016 Most horse owners recognise a horse-sick pasture; the one with poor quality grasses containing weeds, compacted, eroded…

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What is equine permaculture?

Posted by Equine Permaculture on March 13, 2016

Published in Horses and People Magazine (Feb 2016) While many people begin to explore ways to make farming more sustainable and others think of the lifestyle…

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Carob for horses

Posted by Mariette van den Berg (MB Equine Services) on June 30, 2015

By Mariette van den Berg, BAppSc. (Hons), MSc., RAnNutr. (Equine Nutrition) Introduction In a previous article we describe the benefits of trees and shrubs as fodder and…

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Making changes for the better

Posted by Equine Permaculture on April 13, 2015

We asked horse and land owners to tell us a short story about their property, pasture and/or horse management journey. We are all aware that this an…

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Drug Resistance in Horse Worms: An Australian Study

Posted by Equine Permaculture on March 22, 2015

09/03/2015 by Dr Anne Beasley, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland (reposted from Horses and People Magazine) Three years on…

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Why I chose the Permaculture path for my (horse) property!

Posted by Cristina Wilkins on March 13, 2015

By Cristina Wilkins (Director, Editor in Chief of the Horses & People Magazine) I have always believed in caring for, rather than caring about horses. This…

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Soil Decision Making

Posted by Equine Permaculture on March 13, 2015

Posted June 15, 2011 by Campbell Wilson (reposted from www.permaculturenews.org) When you are trying to decide which method of soil improvement…

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Dung beetles in Australia

Posted by Horse SA on March 3, 2015

Want to know more about beneficial bugs & dung beetles? Check out the new website Horses Bugs & Beetles! The website…

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Pilot study tests ‘peat pads’ bedding as a way improve air quality in stables

Posted by Mariette van den Berg (MB Equine Services) on March 2, 2015

By Mariette van den Berg, BAppSc. (Hons), MSc., RAnNutr. (MB Equine Services) A recently published pilot study compared the traditional straw with a novel bedding product…

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