Vanessa Green

Sadly Craig we did this, along with a hessian bag on the side of their cage, wet down to create a bit of evaporative cooling, made sure they had afternoon shade.
But when you are looking at temperatures multiple days of around 45C (113F) which came on suddenly (only weeks before this we were in ugg boots and track pants) and you have to leave them during the day to go to work its just got a bit too much for them, hence why we are going to wait until summer is over to try again.

Hi Kath,

I hope your rabbit is coping with this heat we are having this week.

Last year we got two 8 week old rabbits (doe and buck) with the intention of breeding them for meat, they were getting very close to being of breeding age and we had the heat wave just before Christmas, and sadly we lost them both on one of the days which was about 44 degrees (C).

We want to try again, but are planning on waiting until summer is over and investigating cooling systems inf we do have heat waves again (things like misters) before we get more rabbits.

We were feeding ours the Jack rabbit pellets (I think from Lauke) which they loved, as well as oaten hay, and I would pick various weeds for them, and throw it in their cage...they love thistles if you have those. I had read that too much lettuce is not good for them, and can cause diarrhea.

Where are you in Adelaide? I am in the very north of Adelaide, out Gawler way.

Vanessa

Matu, I have only having played around with the site a little bit, but I have found that there is a "growing" and "ripe" function for produce you list, I think it gets listed as "growing" when you first list it as a defult, and then you can change that to "ripe" when it is ripe, I think that if people have "subscribed" to your produce they get notified when you mark it as ripe.

Hi Dale,

Thanks for the welcome, and its great to see that even over the other side of the world it is able to be used, and my post was helpful.

I do know that it hasn't been out for that long and there is plans to to add more to it (and iron out bugs) but still keep it user friendly, so it is a work in progress, and yes I think you are right in that if people don't find something near them they don't want to use it. I have just listed a few herbs I have growing, they may not be in abundance at the moment but hopefully some time in the future I will be able to mark them as "ripe" and offer them to others.

I'm new here, so I hope I am not breaking any rules here and I am putting this is the right place.

I have come across a website which aims to connect people with local produce, the idea is fairly simple, when people have produce they need to get rid of (either by selling it or giving it away) they list it on the site along with their location, and it then shows up on a map, and people can see what produce is near them hence the name "Ripe Near Me".

It also has the capability to have something listed as "growing" which can then be changed to "ripe" when it is ready to be picked.

The website was created in Australia, but I believe as it is map based it can be used anywhere in the world, and the more people that use it the more useful it will be.

Thought it might be of some use/interest to some here.

This is the site: http://www.ripenear.me/


Vanessa

Hi,

I'm new here, so just thought I would say hi.

I am currently living on two acres on the northern ourskirts of Adelaide, slowly trying to make things as self sufficient as possible, while still working and trying to live the "normal" life.

Looking forward to reading and learning, and adding to the things we want to do.

Vanessa