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  • From: PacificEdge <pacedge@magna.com.au>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Gopher control
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:30:50 +1000

Robyn - you forgot wombats as a nuisance in the garden (especially if you fall into one of their burrows!).

Yes, maybe the New Zealanders would like some gophers... their farmers are quite good at finding new markets for old products (eg. chinese gooseberry called 'kiwi fruit', and I believe that they have stolen the Australian waratah for the cut flower market). They could range on the forest floor, just as Australian possums range through the tree tops and are now being used for products such as clothing, their fur being combined with the locally-grown merino wool.

And I seem to remember those small wallabies in your garden last II was there.

...Russ Grayson


On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 07:21 PM, <permed@nor.com.au> wrote:

From: "Felicity Wright" <flickwright@ozemail.com.au>
We don't have a gopher problem in Australia

They ARE quite tasty, and wonderfully good at working the soil. Perhaps we
could send you a few- they'd breed up a whole bunch in no time at all.
-Rick

We've already got bandicoots, bushrats, possums, brush turkeys and a
plethora of other wildlife and exotic pests being a nuisance in our
gardens.... don't think we'll be taking you up on that offer somehow.
Maybe you can find a niche market in Asia - New Zealand has a huge
problem with Australian possums and started exporting them as meat to
China - they called them 'Kiwi Bears'!!!! It might just be a matter of
finding a creative name for those tasty critters :)
Robyn
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