[Ag-eq] New member replying was

[Jewel]

Nella!  Apart from my good friend, Jody, yours is the first post I have had from this list:  what an 
honour!
I have forgotten, exactly,  how many acres plus square yards there is in a hectare, but it is just a 
bit over 2 acres.
I now have 10 ewes, and 2 goats.  I have also had cattle, a couple of free range pigs and a number 
of free-ranging chooks!
Jody knhows all about chooks don't you Jody!
Guideon is a crossbred German Shepherd/Labradolr, but I try to forget that half of his genes are 
those of the Lab, and, to his credit, he makes the forgetting of that disagreeable fact quite easy!
New Zealand is a very long country, being 1000 miles from North Cape:  that is the northernmost 
point:  now who would have guessed that:  to Slope Point which is the southernmost, but it is, 
likewise, very narrow:  no place being further than 200 miles from a coast.
I have been told that our land area is roughly that of California, but we are a very 
lightly-populated country:  and long may it remain so:   having only the barest tick over 5 million 
inhabitants:  a third of that live in the combined cities of greater Auckland.
Being so long, New Zealand encompasses several climatic zones, so we go from subtropical in the far 
north to cool temperate in Southland, which is where I have lived since 1986.
I am rather embarrassed to have to admit that much of my 2 * gardens are occupied by thriving 
plantations of weeds with which I am, constantly, at war;  However, I have been told, and like to 
think that it is true that healthy weeds denote healthy soil, so my soil must be very healthy if one 
is to use the health of the weeds as a yardstick.
For the past 3 years, I have been trying to grow vegetables hydroponically.  Many people have great 
success with the  system, but I am not one of them so I have given up!

       Jewel--------------------------------------------------
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Welcome Jewel:

So glad you joined us.

Do you know how large a hectare is; I know it's larger than an acre, but not
sure how much.

What type of live stock do you keep?

I live in Phoenix Arizona, keep some live stock and a garden.  I have a horse,
an elderly mule, 5 goats, 1 sheep and 9 hens.  I have a couple of citris trees
and a small garden that I grow in raised beds.

Phoenix is in the desert, so there are a lot of things that just won't grow
here.  I have to water everything and it frequently gets over 112 degrees.

I look forward to hearing more from you.

Nella
Quoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

> New member out there somewhere?  Guess that's me: folk:  Jewel Blanch!
> Jody invited me to join this list as she thought that it might be right up my
> alley, so I did, and
> now it is up to you to see that she spoke nothing but the truth.
> Just a word or 3 about me!
> I live on the outskirts of Gore:  a small town of 7 to 8000 inhabitants:
> being the only town of any
> significance in Eastern Southland New Zealand.
> I own a property of 1.1 hectares plus; the plus  being the floodbank which,
> many years ago, belonged
> to the former owners but was bought by Environment South, the body whose
> responsibility it is to
> manage floodbanks etc.
> Actually, when I bought the property in 1986, I was shown the cheque for 10
> cents that Environment
> South had paid for the floodbank, and which, not surprisingly, the Grahams
> had never bothered to
> cash, but were keeping for a rainy day, or perhaps just a rather misty one!
> I call my spread the BlanchRanch.  This was just a fun name at first, but is
> now official and is the
> name by which I trade at my stock and station agent.
> I have a long history of keeping livestock, but more of that in later posts
> because, without
> counting, I feel sure  that my personal allocation of * 3 words must have
> been reached and exceeded
> some time ago.
>
>       Jewel
>
>
>
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