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1. Marilyn O'Brien says:

   14 Nov 2012 at 18:37

   I podcast Margaret’s interviews, so I only heard it today, but what wonderful ideas you have Michael. I live in rural South Australia and grow most of our own vegies, have worms and chooks, and a small produce company called Origin Earth Natural Produce.
   Good luck with all your ventures, I just wish government would listen to you.
2. Robert says:

   5 Nov 2012 at 21:01

   Have you given any thought to reducing light pollution on the household and neighbourhood scales?

   PS The interview’s actually every weekday at noon on ABC Classic FM.
3. Katherine Tilbury says:

   5 Nov 2012 at 14:57

   Fantastic hour. Has really given me a lot to think about. We do have a fairly substantial vege garden, chooks, and my husband has about 15 beehives, 3 on our block and the rest elsewhere. We live in a residential area in Perth but on a 1/4 acre block. I am going to buy your book.
4. Suzanne says:

   5 Nov 2012 at 14:33

   Hi Michael – Good to hear you on Margaret’s programme again. I bought your house book and found it inspiring. I live in suburban Canberra. Trying to be as sustainable as possible food wise. I’m in the process of setting up an aquaponic system in my front yard. I believe this is definitely the way forward in regards too water wise food production. Fingers crossed for lots of good veggies and fish. – Cheers Suzanne
5. Judi Connelli says:

   5 Nov 2012 at 12:04

   Dear Michael, Thank you for that wonderful interview with Margaret, I just love what you do and how you do it, waking us all up to the possibilities necessary to survive progress.
   I can’t wait to read your book.
   Bless you on your journey.
   Thank you.
   Judi Connelli X
6. Mary Moody says:

   5 Nov 2012 at 06:46

   Good to catch up with you Michael, after all these years. I did ten years of Gardening Australia and then decided, in 2000, to take off in different directions. It was a lot of fun but the time had come to travel.

   The award for the sustainable house segment was the United Nations Environment Media Award – I think it was 1997 or 1998 but I have asked the production office to hunt down the details and also a DVD.

   What I am doing here at Yetholme is producing as much of what we eat as I can (I have 4 adult children and 10 grandkids – scattered). Veg, fruit, herbs, ducks, chickens, lambs and goats which I sometimes milk for cheese. My time is limited – writing and taking treks and garden tours – but I’ve been doing as much for 35 years and I have my head around it now.

   I have being slowly organising lunches around my big farmhouse table, using locally sourced ingredients including spirits, wines, milk, butter, cheese, vegetables and meat. It’s great fun tracking down the suppliers. The idea is based on the French tradition of farm restaurants (ferme auberge). I have a village house in southwest france and I take groups walking through the region – picnic lunches and all local produce.

   The French have been doing this for ever, and their govt also heavily subsidises agriculture, especially in the south, as it represents a traditional way of life that they value. I only wish our governments would do the same, for all the reasons you have articulated in your talk today. However I also love your ‘seize the day’ attitude, empowering people to take control of what happens in their backyard and in their street.

   I’m a member of Sustainable Bathurst and Amazing Bathurst and both groups are pushing for more local production of food.

   Thanks for what you are doing, and for giving all these ideas such a powerful voice. BRAVO!.

   Mary Moody

   My website is marymoody.com.au. It lists my books/tours etc. I have written a couple of cookbooks as well as all the gardening tomes, a four memoirs of a middle aged woman’s adventures in France. I’m a bit lazy about blogging………
7. Margie Sanderson says:

   4 Nov 2012 at 21:02

   When will you be in Bathrst?