
Greg Blue
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Greg Blue
@gjblue
Rugby, Community, Rural & Mental Health enthusiast, been in the fresh food game, can be contentious& cranky, another Kiwi supporting Oz economy. rt not endorse
City of Lake Macquarie Katılım Mart 2013
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If you go into hospital as an alcoholic, they don't put a bottle of vodka on your bedside table and titrate the dose.
They remove the alcohol.
If you go into hospital as a heroin addict, they don't hand you a syringe with the meal tray.
They remove the heroin.
If you go into hospital as a smoker, they don't wheel you outside every two hours for a cigarette break.
They remove the cigarettes.
If you go into hospital as a type 2 diabetic, they bring you white toast, cornflakes, fruit juice, a jam sachet, and a sweetened yoghurt.
Then inject insulin to manage the blood sugar response.
Then write in your notes that your diabetes is "poorly controlled."
Every other addiction is treated by removing the substance.
The one driven by carbohydrate is treated by serving the substance and medicating the response.
Have a think about why.
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@agvocate_au Looks very fine ,love the sensible mix of metric and imperial
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First time I have seen this beauty on my evening walk , think there was possibly a fish at it's feet ,about 40 feet up a dead tree beside Lake Macquarie ,NSW ,any suggestions @agvocate_au

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@MervRobertson Victoria is run by a crazy person who has no idea of reality
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Farmer: "Gentlemen."
Investor 1: "How did you get back in."
Farmer: "Different lanyard."
Investor 2: "What are you pitching."
Farmer: "The ultimate sustainable textile fibre. Carbon-negative, biodegradable, flame-retardant, breathable, antibacterial, water-repellent, and warm when wet."
Investor 3: "Source material."
Farmer: "Grass."
Investor 1: "...grass."
Farmer: "Inedible plant matter, sunlight, and rain. The same inputs as last time."
Investor 2: "How is it harvested."
Farmer: "Once a year. The unit grows the fibre continuously. We remove it without harm to the unit. The unit then grows more."
Investor 3: "Renewable annually."
Farmer: "Indefinitely. The unit also replicates itself, so the supply expands at no cost."
Investor 1: "Lifespan of the final product."
Farmer: "Decades in use. Eighteen months to compost when discarded."
Investor 2: "Microplastic shedding."
Farmer: "None. It isn't plastic."
Investor 3: "Energy required to manufacture."
Farmer: "Sunlight, again. Same sunlight, in fact."
Investor 1: "This would obliterate recycled polyester."
Farmer: "It would. It also predates recycled polyester by about ten thousand years."
[silence]
Investor 2: "It's wool, isn't it."
Farmer: "It's wool."
Investor 3: "We've banned wool. It's cruel to the animal."
Farmer: "The animal dies if you don't remove it."
Investor 3: "..."
Farmer: "I'll see myself out. Same door as last time."

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What is it about Irish women ,they just make sense ,never met a bad one
Levant Wire@LevantWire
At least someone in power in Europe has the courage to speak the truth.
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Farmer: "Gentlemen. I'd like to present the ultimate plant-based protein technology."
Investor 1: "We're listening."
Farmer: "It converts inedible plant matter into complete protein. Grass, cornstalks, brewery waste, vegetable peelings. Anything cellulose-rich that humans can't digest."
Investor 2: "Energy requirements."
Farmer: "Sunlight."
Investor 2: "For the plant matter, you mean."
Farmer: "And for the conversion. Same sunlight. Reused."
Investor 3: "Heating costs for the bioreactor."
Farmer: "None. The unit holds 38.5 degrees year-round on its own."
Investor 1: "Failure rate."
Farmer: "Self-repairing. The unit also replicates once a year at no additional cost."
Investor 3: "Replicates."
Farmer: "Produces a smaller version of itself. Which becomes a full unit."
Investor 2: "Net carbon."
Farmer: "Neutral. The carbon in goes back to the air the grass pulled it from. Round and round, same atoms, no new ones added."
Investor 1: "And the waste output."
Farmer: "Twenty tonnes of soil enrichment per unit per year. The waste is also a product."
Investor 2: "This would obliterate Beyond Meat."
Farmer: "It already has. They just don't know yet."
Investor 1: "Where can we see one."
Farmer: "There are about 1.5 billion currently deployed. Have been for ten thousand years."
[silence]
Investor 3: "It's a cow, isn't it."
Farmer: "It's a cow."
Investor 2: "We were promised plant-based."
Farmer: "The plant goes in one end. I don't know what else you wanted."

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@gjblue Definitely partly seasonal, but we halved the DAP going on at planting, and gave it 2 hits of urea along the way post canopy closure. Also got a 2nd fungicide, which is actually a foliar fert doubling as a fungicide.
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Swede weights are in!Sheep will be on by tomorrow evening (and back off again, to transition their digestive systems from grass to brassicas).
DM/ha is the one we're looking at. A 20% increase on our best ever result previously is pretty cool to see. Sheep and cattle will be well fed this winter!

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In 2002, a clinical trial found that walking reduced type 2 diabetes risk by 58%.
The most prescribed diabetes drug in the same study: 31%.
The walk outperformed the pill by nearly double.
That finding has been in the literature for 22 years. Almost nobody discusses it.
open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…
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Nice surprise when I checked my potted plants this afternoon - Haemanthus deformis👌#pottedplants #autumnflowers #gardeningforpleasure

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@agvocate_au @Goldy_1981 One sting will be enough to get me in serious trouble ,and I'm hopeless at having the epi pen with me
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@Goldy_1981 They'd attack it for sure.
Took a big dislike to my ute parked beside them.
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@gjblue 🤣🤣🤣remembering what it felt like all those years ago in Tapanui doing the same. 🤣🤣🤣.
Seemingly he was wondering if it was Ok to leave, his wife, mr 16’s mother was also one of the photographers.
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@Agrivetbusiness Still mainly take notes in meetings hate the laptop tapping in a meeting , but actually understanding what I wrote is a bit of a challenge sometimes
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Wow!!!
I’m stuffed now - hardly hand write at all nowadays…
Greg Blue@gjblue
Great reading , take some notes , pen and paper
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