Ness is just about managing to keep the garden alive with a water butt to collect grey water from washing machine, and we are looking into installing a complete grey water system to harvest all water from sinks/baths etc.
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| From Protea Farm 1 |
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| From Protea Farm 1 |
The alpaca wool is being put to good use. We are saving Marley's because it is quite good quality and could be utilised in some handicraft sort of a fashion, but poor old Alan has hideous elderly animal skin and dermatitis, so his wool is full of scabs, skin flakes and assorted bits of crusty camelid.
It does however make a fine mulch, so the cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes are growing happily in their snuggly duvet.
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| From Protea Farm 1 |
The large resident flock of choughs are also enthusiastically sorting through it for nesting material, so alpaca nests are the 'new look' in avian interior design this season.
2 comments:
Was watching a tv programme where a couple have a herd? of alpaca (yes here in the rainy UK), they say they get £100 per kilo for the wool. Hells Bells, I may have to put some in my back garden lol.
For that sort of wool quality the alpaca costs thousands to buy.Marley was under $500 and Alan was free-think that says a lot about the value of their wool!
Would be nice though.
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