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Hello EllenYou or someone using your email address d to our newsletter. The subscription was made from our web site located at: www.home-herb-garden.com A very warm Welcome to all our New rs. Unfortunately some email servers now use spam filters which may

prevent you from recieving this HTML newsletter. If so, you may receive a text newsletter, and in which case some of the Links may not work, or you may have to copy and paste. Please email us if you cant access any links you would like to follow at; info ******************************************** Here are the Index page addresses to our Home, Herb and Garden Website, where you will find all you ever wanted to know about herbs and gardens! And we've just added five or six new pages! Herb Index Here! Garden Index here! ******************************************** FREEBIES Home Herb and Garden Newsletter readers are still in for a Freebie Bonanza.

We have three pages of Freebies for you guys, and have added more this month. The link below will take you to the first page. After that, you may need to type in the URL endings for the other two pages. Have fun with your FREE goodies! www.home-herb-garden.com/freebies2.html www.home-herbgarden.com/freebies3.htmlClick here for your FREE eBook Page!For those who have brought my new fiction adventure book “Matt Turner and the Shoalwater Bay Incident” and who are waiting for the sequel, “Matt Turner and the Khan Amulet”, don’t despair. It gets closer and closer, and I hope to have copies for sale soon. Thanks for all the kind words about the first volume, it’s getting some very good reviews! If you haven’t yet read it, you can preview and purchase it Here! * Patrick (Paddy)

O’Brien ******************************************** Recently I was invited to review a new gardening book. I thought the book was superbly written, and I recommend it to anyone who loves gardening. It’s called the The Weekend Gardener! and it’s especially written for those who only have the weekend to work in their gardens. Have a look! ******************************************** STOP PRESS! 20/9/06 Due to an accident which requires surgery, I will not be able to attend the Yandina and Caboolture Markets for a couple of months. I have another shoulder operation in early February so I regret I wont be back at the Markets until March/April. However our mail order service will still operate. If you live anywhere in Australia all you need to do is phone me on 0408 711344,

or 07 54941890, and we can quickly organise a mail order delivery of your favorite herbal teas. We also now have a wholesale Division for those who would like to resell our herbal teas and infusions. Patrick O’Brien HH(Dip)MH Order details and herbal tea list! ******************************************** For our newsletter rs only, we have added the following Freebie eBooks to our Home, Herb and Garden Freebie page! (See link above) A treatise on traditional soapmaking! An excellent book on US and Canadian wildflowers! 198 pages of herbal bath recipes for soaps and salts! Judy's A to Z of herbs will be back in the next Newsletter! ******************************************** Milk in Tea is a No No! That dash of milk in the morning cuppa nullifies all the goodness of the tea. Studies have shown that drinking green or black tea can be good for you because both types contain an abundance of antioxidants called flavonoids. These improve bloodflow and help to prevent heart disease, and are also thought to protect against some cancers. But German researchers discovered that adding milk to a cup of black tea counteracts the beneficial effects. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, found that when black tea is drunk on its own, cardiovascular function improves. But it suggests that certain proteins in milk appear to negate the effect of catechins, the particular flavonoids in tea. The findings are bad news for manufacturers who have promoted the health properties of the beverage to Australians who add milk as a matter of routine. The study

involved 16 healthy post-menopausal women who were given either 500ml of black tea, black tea with 10 per cent skimmed milk or with extra boiled water as a control. They drank it on three occasions but refrained from drinking tea for four weeks before and after the study. The drink itself was made from 5g of Darjeeling tea leaves brewed for three minutes. In a healthy artery, blood vessels are able to relax if the bloodflow increases - a process called flow-mediated dilation. The researchers measured FMD levels in the forearm before the tea was drunk and at several intervals afterwards. They wrote: "Black tea significantly improved FMD in humans compared with water, whereas addition of milk completely blunted the effects of tea." The culprit in milk appears to be a group of proteins called caseins, which interacted with the tea to decrease the concentration of catechins. *The Times Chinese Medicinal

Herbs! The first large-scale screening of herbs commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine reveals they contain thousands of compounds with the potential to fight diseases from cancer to HIV-AIDS and conditions such as erectile dysfunction and high blood pressure. The compounds are promising "candidates" for new drugs, pharmaceutical chemist David Barlow and his colleagues at King's College London claimed. Dr Barlow's group discovered 8264 chemical compounds in the 240 plants studied. And 62per cent of them contained at least one potential disease-fighting biochemical, with 53 per cent containing two or more. Some, such as maidenhair and skullcap, were packed with five or more active ingredients. The team will report in an upcoming edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modelling that it found almost 2600 compounds that could be used to fight a host

of ailments. Among them were pain, inflammation, dementia, obesity, Huntington's disease, blood clots, depression, eye disease and arthritis. Chris Zaslawski, of the College of Traditional Medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney, said the research was an important first step towards novel pharmaceuticals based on natural products. "But that doesn't mean (the compounds) will work in humans," he said. Tomatoes and Broccoli! Eating tomatoes and broccoli in the same meal could help men fight prostate cancer. A study suggests that when they are both present in a regular diet, the two foods - known for their cancer-fighting qualities - help reduce tumours more effectively than when they are eaten separately. Researchers from the University of Illinois believe that different compounds in the vegetables can work together to attack cancer cells along different biological pathways. They

suggest men should regularly consume servings of up to three quarters of a head of raw broccoli and two to three tomatoes to help fight the disease. The university's food science and human nutrition professor, John Erdman, said men should consider consuming three to five such servings a week. "Studies have shown that men who regularly eat servings of fresh tomatoes have up to a 40 per cent reduced risk of developing prostate cancer, while the sulphur compounds in broccoli are known to be a mechanism that delays cancer growth," he said. "They are quite different agents and do not have to beeaten together, but their effects seem to be very complementary." In a study published in the US journal Cancer Research, the scientists fed a diet containing 10 per cent tomato powder and 10 per cent broccoli powder to rats implanted with prostate cancer cells. Other rats received either tomato or broccoli powder alone; or lycopene,

the red pigment in tomatoes thought to be an effective cancer-preventive agent; or finasteride, a drug prescribed for men with enlarged prostates. Another group was castrated. After 22 weeks, the rats given tomato and broccoli in combination were found to have smaller tumours. Professor Erdman said: "When eaten together, we see an additive effect. Cooked tomatoes may be better than raw tomatoes. "The lesson is to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables prepared in a variety of ways." Kirstie Canene-Adams, who carried out the study, said: "Older men with slow-growing prostate cancer who have chosen watchful waiting over chemotherapy and radiation should seriously consider altering their diets to include more tomatoes and broccoli." Julie Sharp, of Cancer Research UK, said effects on humans were still unclear. "We do know that a balanced diet can help reduce the risk of cancer and should include plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit," she

said. * The Times Carnations! Carnations originally grew in Europe and Asia. Eventually they found their way to English and American gardens, and have since been bred into hundreds of cultivars. Further development has led to a much longer vase life. Carnations have spectacular colours. ‘Bizarres’ have a clear background marked or flaked with two or three colours, ‘flakes’ have a clear background with one flaked colour, fancies are varieties that do not fall into either category, ‘picotees’ have the colours confined to the edge of the flowers, and ‘selfs’ are of one colour. Many commercially grown carnations are grown under hydroponics. Some varieties of carnations will flower all year round, with a little care. They need free-draining well-aerated open soil to do well. Sandy soils should have manure or compost added. Heavy gluggy soils need sand or gravel mixed with it. Lime should also

be added to heavy soils. Drainage is important, carnations do not like wet feet, and they generally need less water than some other garden plants. They grow best in an open sunny position away from fences and hedges, although they will require protection from strong winds. Seedlings are readily available from supermarkets and nurseries. Flowers generally appear 28 days after planting. Carnations grown from seed will result in mixed colours, as against those grown from named seedlings. In some humid areas you may need to spray the seedlings with a fungicide to prevent disease. Plant in summer because cool weather slows down the plant growth. In colder climates a plastic igloo is useful to cover the plants with, in storms or heavy rain. During winter little water is needed, but in summer they must be closely watched to ensure they do not dry out. When planting, plant about 15 to 20 inches apart. Plant directly into the ground, and ensure

that the hole is filled with water. Make sure the crown of the plant is well above ground level to prevent dampening off or collar rot. Pinching out the tops of the growing plant will give you a bushier plant with more flowers. You can use these for cuttings. Layering is an easier way to take cuttings off mature plant. You can read more about plant propagation at our Home Herb and Garden website here! Through the growing and flowering period carnations need plenty of liquid fertiliser. Some growers have great success using soot water, mixing a cup of soot to a 20 litre (4 gallon) bucket of water. Let stand for a few days, then water the soil around the carnations with it. It is said to improve flower size and colour. Carnations also grow well in pots on a veranda or windowsill, and can be taken inside when in flower. Good luck with your carnations, Patrick ******************************************** Big Book of Hobbies! In our last newsletter we mentioned the Big Book of Hobbies, Crafts and Activities. We wrote a Draft copy and asked people involved with crafts or hobbies to download it free, and to add to the content, which they did. In fact, 407 copies were downloaded the first day, with over 1000 copies in less than one week! Now the finished Big Book of Hobbies, Crafts, and Activities Vol 2 is ready for you to download! It’s got much more info, better graphics, and more articles. You can download the Vol 2 here! It’s free, and you can send it to a friend, give it away as a gift, or sell it (we suggest $29). Home Vegetables! Australian Clive Blazey, a long-time advocate of digging up the lawn and replacing it with delicious, heirloom varieties of fruit and vegetables, fears the traditional backyard vegie patch is at risk from water restrictions. He argues that home gardeners not only use less water than commercial farmers, but they are sequestering carbon dioxide and saving all the greenhouse gases that result from commercial farming, transport, refrigeration and storage of produce. "It is probably the most positive thing a person can do at home," he said, "and I think it is appalling that we get penalised." The first target of water restrictions now in place in every mainland Australian state capital is use in the garden. Most jurisdictions ban sprinklers and strictly limit hand-watering of gardens. The nursery and associated industries have suffered a

downturn of between 30 and 40 per cent and about 6000 job losses due to water restrictions. But The Digger's Club, which Mr Blazey set up in 1978 to preserve and sell heirloom vegetables, fruit and flower seeds, is thriving. "We are going through the worst drought ever, and our sales are booming," he said. "We are staggered." He thinks gardeners are motivated by food scares, the desire to eat healthy, organic produce and by climate change. "About 25 per cent (of our greenhouse gas production) is connected with food, from the beginning to the end distribution. So if you grow at home, you are saving 25 per cent." Permaculture advocate David Holmgren established his garden, Mellidora, at Hepburn Springs in central Victoria 20 years ago. "Potato farming in our district uses six or seven megalitres (million litres) per hectare. We are using under one megalitre." Melliodora is just under 1ha. "We are producing all the fruit and vegetables,

most of the nuts, dairy products, but not grains and oilseeds, for about six or seven people," he said. Both Mr Blazey and Mr Holmgren would like to see state governments adopt a system where households get a water allocation and use it as they wish, with charges rising steeply for higher consumption. Malcolm Turnbull, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for water, has said the idea of individual water allocations should be considered. *Herald Sun It’s quite true that gardeners have been the first ones to be penalised for using water. Business and factories have not yet been forced to reduce water usage, but some have started anyway. There is no doubt that many Australian gardens have suffered. Some gardeners are reluctantly removing water-loving loving plants and replacing with low water-use or arid land plants. Mulching is becoming more widely used. For the benefit of overseas readers, almost all of

Australia has been in drought for ten years, with some areas for even longer. You can read much more about waterproofing your gardens in our Gardening Index on the left hand side of this page. * Patrick Anti-inflammatories! The anti-inflammatory supplement chondroitin can dramatically slow the progress of osteoarthritis, scientists have confirmed. It can prevent cartilage loss, and it can significantly reduce pain.Chondroitin has always had its advocates, but they’ve mainly been from natural or nutritional medicine. This major new study, whose results have been revealed in just the past few days, could see it being finally acknowledged as a proven treatment by conventional medicine. It’s been tested on 622 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Half took 800 mg of chondroitin, 4,6-sulfate every day for two years, while the rest were given a placebo, or sugar pill.After two years, the

erosion of cartilage in the placebo group was more than twice as bad as those who had taken chondroitin. The chondroitin group also experienced far less pain over the time than those taking the placebo. The results, prepared by the STOP (Study on Osteoarthritis Progression Prevention) group at universities in France and Belgium, have just been revealed at the American College of Rheumatology conference in Washington. (Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007; 297: 28-9). We all knew that anyway, but it’s nice to have it confirmed. Dandruff! Give it thyme. We found this interesting dandruff solution while surfing the internet. You should boil 4 table spoons of dried time in half a litre of water for 10 minutes. After it has cooled, strain it through a sieve. Massage the liquid into your scalp 3 times a week and leave it there overnight. (This potion can also be used to turn your neighbour into a newt, so use wisely.) Getting Started in Container Gardening! Sometimes, the urge to garden might be stomped out by other circumstances, such as living arrangements or space constrictions. If you live in an apartment, you can’t really operate a full garden, just because you don’t really have a yard! One of the best solutions for this problem is to grow plants in containers. You can hang these, or just arrange them on your patio, window sill or balcony. Just a few baskets or pots, and your whole living area will look much classier and nicer. A benefit of growing in small containers is the fact that you can move them around to suit your needs. If you rearrange your furniture and you think that it would look nicer if it was in the other area, it’s no trouble at all to scoot it over. As long as the lighting is about the

same, your plant shouldn’t mind the transition at all. Another benefit of the containers’ versatility is the fact that you can adapt it to simulate any environment depending on the type of soil you fill it with and where you place it. It’s also possible to purchase large plant containers on wheels, so you can move larger plants around more easily. If you are trying to make an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of containers and plants, you can adjust the containers to be at different heights by hanging them from the ceiling or placing them on supports. Hanging them will allow you to make the most of the space you have. This is called “vertical gardening”. If you pull it off right, you can make a very pleasing arrangement of plants while conserving your valuable space. If you live in an apartment, you know how important it is to conserve space! One method of vertical gardening is the use of a wooden step ladder. If painted correctly, you can arrange all

the plants on it in a beautiful, stylish cascade of color. The maintenance of container plants takes slightly more time, since you have to water more often and go around to each individual container. However, the square footage for container plants is much less than that of an actual garden, so the time spent on maintenance and watering is more balanced. It is important that you don’t over-water your container plants, as this can be just as fatal to their health as under-watering. There is also the watering convenience factor. You can water your container plants with the water you cooked your vegetables in (cooled of course) or cold tea, so saving water that would otherwise be wasted. When choosing containers for your plants, you’ll want to buy them all at once along with some extras in case they break or you add more plants later. You don’t want them to be all the same shape and size, but definitely the same style so that the compliment

each other. Plastic containers are the best and require the least amount of watering, but if you want to stick with clay or earthen pots then you should line the inside with plastic. This helps it retain water more, as the clay will soak up water. There is a whole page on the Home Herb and Garden website about cheap recycled plant containers, they don’t need to be expensive! Some of the best are polystyrene broccoli boxes, and you can even paint them with water paint to make them look brighter! If the benefits of container gardening sound appealing to you, then you should start planning out your container garden today. If you write a list of all the plants you desire to have, you can do the necessary research to find out what size and shape of pots you should get. Don’t forget to grow salad plants and cherry tomatoes. They are very ornamental, and taste great. After that, it’s just a matter of arranging your container plants in a way that makes your home

look the nicest. Coughing! If you suffer a persistent cough that just won’t go away even after several months, perhaps you don’t need a doctor – you should be seeing a speech therapist. Researchers have found that these specialists have successfully stopped a longterm cough by using techniques developed for voice disorders. In one study, relief came quickly, usually after just four half-hour sessions. The coughers were taught to suppress the urge to cough, and were given breathing techniques to relax the throat. They were also ‘educated about the futility of repeated coughing’, researchers said. (Source: Thorax, 2006; 61: 1065). Of course if you are a smoker, and you have a persistent cough………. Of course if coughing persists, see your natural health practitioner. Marshmellow is an excellent herb for coughing, we blend echinacea, plaintain, sage, and liquorice with

marshmellow, it makes a very pleasant and effective tea. Water Gardens! There are many new trends surfacing in gardening, and water gardening is one of the new interests. Water gardening can be in the form of waterfalls, ponds, fountains, all of which can be enhanced by rock work combinations and lighting, plants, and fish. Water gardening doesn’t have to be a pond or natural water source either, it can consist of just a plastic tub, basically anything that can hold water. The most important thing to consider in water gardening is probably the spot chosen. Since plants and fish both need plenty of sunlight, places in direct light is the best place. This will also help prevent leaves and debris from collecting in the water. However you need to have it close to some bushes so that birds can seek shelter. If you have a cat, don’t have a water garden, you’ll be attracting

birds and small reptiles to their death. When planning for a water garden first decide the size you want. This will depend on how much money you are willing to spend because water gardening can get expensive if you opt for a large garden full of plants, rocks, fish, and lights. Also consider the size of our property, and the amount of time you want to spend with maintaining your water garden. When you choose what type of aquatic plants you wish to have, remember that the plants should only cover about half of the water, and they should be native to your area. Plants can be free floating, submerged, or marginal. Which you choose is all a matter of personal preference. Some plants are good for their scent, some provide more oxygen than others and will keep the pool health, and some are just beautiful. Fish are not only nice to look at but they are also very beneficial. Fish help keep debris at a minimum and help in

controlling larva and other insects. One of the main difficulties in water gardening is keeping water clear of algae. Algae problems are usually caused from too many nutrients in the water from feeding fish too often or from over fertilizing plants. If ponds are made correctly and are maintained properly algae problems and control will be kept at a minimum. All garden pools regardless of size will need maintenance throughout the yea r. With proper planning you can ensure a healthy balance between living and decorative features of a water garden that can almost care for itself with simple maintenance inputs from you. You can get rid of algae by reducing on the nutrients that cause the algae by cutting back on feeding and fertilizing, planting more plants, installing a filter system, or replacing existing water with fresh water. There are some chemicals that can be used, like copper compounds, but overuse can kill plant life and fish. Water gardening doesn’t take any more time than regular gardening, but obviously isn’t nearly the same thing. You may be the type person who couldn’t grow a flower if you tried, but would be excellent at water gardening. If you are looking for a way to occupy some time or to beautify your yard, water gardening is an excellent way. You can find much more info about garden ponds and creeks at our Home Herb and garden Website. ******************************************** I guess I’m a prolific writer, I like writing, and I try to spend at least an hour a day on it. I love writing fiction, but I’ve just finished a non-fiction eBook some of our newsletter readers may be interested in. There is a rapidly rising trend to male and female impotency worldwide, and it can be controlled or avoided. The eBook is called the “Secret Herbs for Love, for Sex, and for Keeping your Feet Warm on Cold

Nights.” by Patrick O'Brien, HH(Dip)MH You can read more about it here! It is an Adults Only book. Internet Safety Something that worries everyone! Authorities are concerned that International crime gangs are ready to tap our phone calls in the latest scam to hit the Internet. Online fraud is now a multi-billion global criminal enterprise. Australian companies are spending billions of dollars a year to combat it. A special investigation has revealed a sophisticated array of new threats to Internet users. Police said an expected surge in the use of internet phone services this year would provide new opportunities for tech-savvy criminals to steal people's identities and cash. Up to 40 per cent of all international calls are expected to be carried on the Internet by 2008 and all fixed-line phone calls by 2020. Australian High Tech Crime Centre director Kevin Zuccato recently said internet phone services would suffer the same security problems and scams as computer internet services. Emerging net nasties include: PHONE spam that uses automated internet calls to con people into handing over private details. PEOPLE lured to launder money for international crime gangs with online offers of commissions for transferring money through their bank accounts. SINGLE mums with young children being hunted and groomed online by pedophiles. CYBER crooks gathering some details on selected targets, such as wealthy investors, to persuade them to hand over vital personal details online. SPAM emails that claim to be from a reputable source and ask people to respond

by phone, often stating this offers protection from internet fraud. Much email spam comes from crime gangs hunting for their next victim. Scams to steal people's banking and credit details, money laundering and child pornography have all been linked to crime syndicates in Eastern Europe and Asia. The rise in online threats has led the State Government and Victoria Police to more than double the size of the computer crime squad to 29 over the next three years, which is probably only a quarter of the staff they need. International frauds already use Internet generated phone numbers to con people into thinking they are legitimate, locally based businesses. Now authorities fear they will tap calls to steal information such as bank and credit card details. Mr Zuccato said the growing shift from copper wire lines to internet phone links -- known as voice over internet protocol -- would open phone communications to the same risks faced by

internet users. A key threat will be from hackers using trojan viruses, which record digital data and send it to a computer where the words can be recreated. This lets hackers retrieve corporate and personal secrets, such as passwords and tax file, licence and passport numbers. Mr Zuccato said people would also need to be increasingly wary of phone spam -- automated calls claiming to be from trusted organisations such as banks or government agencies. Mr Zuccato said VoIP numbers were already used in spam emails to trick people wary of putting private details in an email to part with them over the phone. "(Criminals) will set up a VoIP phone number that appears to be local when it's in fact located in South-East Asia," he said. Those who call are asked are then quizzed for personal numbers. Since access to the World Wide Web became widely available in 1994 it has opened a window to the world in Australian homes and schools and a virtual

shopfront for businesses and governments. It has also become a portal for criminals, cranks and creeps, promoters of racism, filth and violence, and a tool for bullies and pedophiles. Almost one in two children have been asked online to meet a stranger and just one in 10 of those who agree ask their parents first, a NetAlert and nineMSN survey found. "Probably the most disturbing trend which has become apparent recently is the issue of mule recruitment," the computer crime squad's Det Sen-Sgt Michael Nolan said. Mules are recruited by emails offering people work from home transferring small amounts of money - usually less than $5000 - for training courses or small overseas exporters. Det Sen-Sgt Nolan said the money was usually the proceeds of fraud. He warned it was illegal to deal with proceeds of crime. He said a Victorian man was arrested recently for taking part in just such a scheme. There are many ways to avoid Internet fraud.

Millions of computer users worldwide have had no trouble doing business online, and the old saying is quite correct, if something offered online is too good to be true, it probably is fraud. I make a practice of not having anything to do with a website or email that doesn’t have a way of contacting the owner, by phone, address, and an easily found email addy. If someone is not prepared to put their credentials online, I don’t have anything to do with them. There are many new users coming online that don’t have an awareness of the cyberspace crooks, and unfortunately they are usually the ones who get caught. Nor do I respond to Spam emails. I read quite a few of them, except the nasty ones, but always delete. And I never open attachments, unless I know exactly who they have come from, and I’m expecting them. And of course, up-to-date virus software is essential. Perhaps computer companies that sell computers have an obligation to instruct new users in

Internet safety. As Australia is a few years behind the US in technology, by the time the new technology gets to Australia perhaps the US will have fixed the security issues. Or perhaps not. Herbal Teas and Complimentary Food! Rooibos: Caramel slice goes well with Rooibos for their similar roundedness; or rooibos with red meat for its black tea-like taste. Lemongrass: Go fish! Lemongrass is fantastic to go with white fish or a fish curry. It helps to reduce your fishy breath afterwards too! And its good in rooibos, black or green teas. Rose: Rose infusion actually carries a very mellow light taste. It goes well with a plain biscuit, shortbread, for example. Chamomile: Apple is the best we have found coupling with chamomile. So lets have a slice of apple strudel please. Hibiscus / Rosella: This funky looking herb makes

a vivid ruby colour infusion that is quite tart.. Not bad to go with stoggy food like soup noodles with light broth, or a light coloured baked goods, such as scones with berry jam. ******************************************** OUR WEBSITE Our Home Herb and Garden web site is now rated by Alexa as being in the top 1 per cent of 56 million web sites! Alexa rates on content, traffic and relevance. We have well over 100 big pages, and we have visitors from many countries, including Asia, Tanzania, New Zealand, China, Switzerland, Seychelles, Israel, and many more. Even the US government has a look now and then. Perhaps they drink herb tea in the White House. If they dont, perhaps they should. Of course this success is not because we are extra clever, far from it. I can do words in bold, and in color, in HTML, but nothing else. I type with two fingers, on a good day I can sometimes

manage to use three. Sitebuildit does everything else for us. We are not telling you this just to blow our own trumpets! Well…just a bit… We are telling you this because if you are going to have a web site, we'd like to see you have a good one! We have to thank Sitebuildit for our web sites' success. Many people pay thousands of dollars for a web site to be built for them, and they don't get that sort of traffic, or anything like it. Another problem about having an expensive expert build a web site for you is that you lose control. Your web site is what the expert thinks it should be like, not necessarily what you (see, I did a bold) think it should be like. And it's not easy to get the expert to change things, or update it. Others learn HTML, build a web site themselves, and then spend the next millenium trying to get traffic to visit, and it rarely does. In fact a whole

eCommerce Industry has been built around selling expensive theories and processes to drive traffic to a web site. Well, Sitebuildit does that for us automatically, you just follow the Action Guide and build your web site, around an interesting niche that the Action Guide explains how to develop. As you build each page, it is automatically submitted to the search engines. As well, there is a newsletter facility, a super search engine, link manager, and so many other easy-to-use tools to put your Sitebuildit web site right at the top. It's a Web Site package worth $5000 or more, and you can buy it for peanuts, and monkeys could build it. For more info about this amazing hosting company you can click on our Sitesell Reference Centre here!If you need a web site that is much more than 'just a web site', have a look at Sitebuildit. They also have a FREE business Course

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email me, or phone me at 0408 711344 ******************************************** OUR HERBAL TEAS If you live on or near the Sunshine Coast, Australia, you could visit one of the Markets at Yandina or Caboolture where we sell our herbal teas. Information about the location of the markets is on our Herbal Tea page. If you live overseas and are planning a Aussie holiday, you absolutely need to visit the Sunshine Coast. If you do, call into the Markets and say Gidday! Our mail order page link is below, and we mail herbal teas all around Australia. if in doubt about which tea you woould like,or how to order, please phone us, our phone number is on the web page! We have also added a number of plain dried herbs to our stocks, such as raspberry leaf, red clover, nettle etc. If you like to have your favorite herbal teas mailed to

you, (Australia only) phone us at 0408 711344. If we are temporarily out of the service area, please leave a message and we can phone you back. Jump to Mail Order page now!******************************************** HERBALIST! How would you like to have a program in your computer that has a list of 300 commonly used herbs? And what if it contained medicinal indications for those herbs? And what if it had pictures and botanical notes as well? It sounds pretty handy, doesn’t it? Well, it gets better. What if it contained a huge data base that you can write in your own notes about herbs? If you are a herb gardener you can add info about your planting programs. If you are student you can add notes about your lessons. If you just love herbs, anything that interests you about herbs that you read in magazine or

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details about this incredibly handy software, Herbalist! Click here for Herbalist!******************************************** *ABOUT US AT HOME, HERB, AND GARDEN!* The Home Herb and Garden Newsletter is published by Judy Wolski and Patrick OBrien. Patrick is a former butcher, restaurateur, and commercial small crop and herb grower who, with his partner Susan, now operates a thriving on and offline Health Products and Lifestyle business. Susan also works in aged care. Judy and her husband are herb growers who are currently

building a new house and herb nursery. Judy is a prolific writer, a craft artist, and also works voluntarily in home, community conservation, education, and lifestyle issues. ******************************************** Please don't forget that all the photos on our Home Herb and Garden web page are free for you to use, just for having the good judgement to visit our web site! ) Just right click on the photo, then 'save as picture' to your documents, and use it wherever you like. Because they are low resolution for web pages, they do not expand very well. However if you have a good photo program you can resize them quite bit. ******************************************** Please feel free to pass on our newsletter to your gardening friends. Have a great month everyone, and if you are out and about over the

holidays,please drive carefully. Till our Next newsletter, please try to make a difference to our planet. Happy herb gardening, Patrick and the crew at www.home-herb-garden.comYou are d to Home Herb and Garden Newsletter. The back issues are at the following URL... http://www.home-herb-garden.com/Home_Herb_and_Garden_Newsletter-backissues.html Ellen LaFleche-Christian Lilac Hill

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