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JANUARY 2011

Issue 40

Knowledge is power: Saving on energy costs pg3 Rural business: Cost effective websites pg6 Health feature: A silver bullet and improving water quality pg10-11 Warkworth A&P Show feature: Saturday 22 January pg14 Weather: La Nina and the effect it could have pg16

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Liquid gold and common colds Thankfully there was more than a wandering star before Christmas…a wandering depression that bore gifts of liquid gold. As one Northland farmer put it – “Hear that money hitting the roof?” There were all sorts of doubts, but the Met service stuck to its guns … that there was a reasonably good chance of a depression swinging in between the highs (page 16). So with La Nina forecast to be around until March, it poses the question…with the dry spell coming early, does that mean the wet season will come early too? This month we welcome a new member to our team as a writer and salesperson. Logan Tudehope comes from a national rural web media business, Rural Trader. Living with his three-year-old son Blair on a 10-acre block in Kumeu has provided the material for many a tale for his column Logan’s Run and other articles in his previous life. This month Logan writes on the 144th Warkworth

show to kick off the New Year. And now for something completely different for us… if you’re looking to establish a website for your homebased or rural business but have a shoestring budget, this article from local publisher and web-builder Steven Hart could be what you’re looking for. Steve developed his first website himself after receiving a real shock as to the cost of using a professional web development company. Also this issue, Helen writes of her eye-opening experience in evaluating her electricity consumption and a new device that’s helping to reduce her energy bills.

I trust you and your family have a safe and relaxing holiday break over this New Year period.

Neville Walker – Editor & Publisher Letters or enquiries to Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle, RD Marketing Ltd, RD1, Kaukapakapa. Phone 09 947 3580. Email: neville@rurallifestyle.co.nz Advertising enquiries: Marlene Brown 021-854-946 Logan Tudehope 021 483401

Two health related topics I’m contributing this month are my experiences of improving water quality from tanks with the hot summer conditions and finding a silver bullet for the common cold.

Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle ©2011. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission of the publisher is prohibited. No responsibility accepted for any direct or indirect consequences arising from reliance on any content within Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle. Editor: Neville Walker. Sub Editor: Helen Martin. Writers this issue: Helen Martin, Logan Tudehope, Steve Hart, Neville Walker. Cover photo: We chose this wonderful image of a Koru because it is the Maori name given to the newborn, unfurling fern frond and symbolises new life, growth, strength and peace. © John Radoff 2005. Designer: Dan Stenhouse, Bgraphix. Printing: International Print.

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A son hoping to win a hybrid car when he entered an online competition run by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) instead won a lighting and energy package. To our delight, because he doesn’t own a home, he generously gave the prize to us. Looking up the EECA website (www.eeca.govt.nz) we found the competition was part of a campaign aimed at increasing public knowledge

of energy efficient lighting and energy savings in general. When the letter of confirmation arrived from EECA we found the prize consisted of; a Centameter, valued at $250 (we had no idea what that was); a residential energy assessment to be

Electricians gain EcoSmart registration by completing a course run by ECANZ, the Master Electricians organisation and EECA competition sponsor (www.ecanz.org.nz). Looking for the EcoSmart electrician closest to Helensville, Master Electricians, the competition sponsor, came up with Alpha Electrical, a father/son company based at Waimauku. First up Luke and Alf Nabarro arranged for the installation of the Centameter. We learned that this is a small electronic device with a wireless connection to your meter that measures and displays the hourly cost of your electricity use, beeping when you exceed your pre-set limit (we set ours at $2 per hour). The purpose of the Centameter is to encourage consumers to save power by constantly monitoring how much you’re using and what it’s costing you. (See more at www.centameter.co.nz). To gauge our energy use Luke completed an EcoSmart residential check sheet, an exhaustive list of things to consider, starting with a thorough assessment of our power plan, then checking it against the competition to see if we were getting the best deal. From the website (www.switchme.co.nz) we found there was a cheaper option and made the decision to switch power companies (it should have been quick and easy - it soon turned into a bureaucratic nightmare, but that’s another story). We should have installed solar power when the house was built – that’s still on the to-do list - but our house faces north, is well insulated, has plenty of sun-trapping glass windows and doors and for winter heating there’s a super-efficient wood burner, so all the heating and ventilation questions got a big tick on the check sheet. Our lighting was another story. The house was built 5 years ago, just before eco bulbs were in common use, so the room-by-room check of the type and number of lights installed turned RURAL LIFESTYLE ISSUE 40

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address and he lived around the corner. Still, in those early days of the net it seemed quite cool to have an email address on my business card. These days of equal importance to the email address is a website. While many businesses recognise the importance of a professional looking website as a promotional tool that works 24/7, many report that the process of creating and updating their website is far from easy.

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Despite dabbling in web design for years, I still find the programming code behind many websites (HTML or PHP) a foreign language. While creating a basic site has become easier, I dread to think of the thousands of dollars I have handed to web designers over the years to tweak my sites at $130+ an hour. Websites can be expensive to have built but they need not be. There are now cost-effective ways to have an easy-to-use website that looks great, enables novice users to painlessly upload pictures, video and text in a trice and has its own content management system (CMS) for users to create and manage their site.

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So we’ve asked Steve Hart to share some ideas on how to get a website up and running without it involving a lot of expense.

You too can be up and running with your new website in a couple of hours (or less) of reading this feature as I take you through the process of installing a website based on WordPress software – and it’s all free as long as you have a domain name to upload the content to (see www.wordpress.org).

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A silver-bullet for a cold? By Neville Walker

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As I watch I always think I should add some steriliser as the flood of fresh town-supply water, while chlorinated, stirs up the sediment and with it the microbes and bugs. I quite often hear, “I’ve lived on tank water for years and it’s never once put me crook”, but while that may be true it could be that it’s not a matter of ‘if’, it’s a matter of ‘when’.

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but is it safe to drink? That makes 7 tank-loads of town-water for 2010... a first for our household! La Nina launches summer with yet another drought (although with the possibility of occasional big dumps forecast). Whether you’re shelling out for another load of town water supply or enjoying a tankful from a passing ‘low-pressure system’ something to be considered is that both sources of water bring with them another issue… water quality. Most days I find myself anxiously staring at the water tank level gauge and wondering if there’s a low pressure system big enough to swing down from the tropics and fill the tanks. Do I call Steve, our water carrier, who has become

Water tanks should be cleaned out every one to two years. Even though I cleaned ours out last summer I can see how much sediment lies on the bottom already. That sediment provides the perfect breeding ground for E.coli. We have written about the subject in a previous article (Issue 30, p. 17), but given the number of questions we receive about pumps, tanks and filters, we’ve decided to briefly touch on the topic again. E. coli in its many forms is mostly harmless except for one particular variety which, when ingested in a significant quantity, can make us feel slightly off colour, through to making us vomit. Worse still, under-fives and the elderly can become gravely ill. How do we ingest it? E.coli can live inside the gut of healthy cattle and birds (have you ever noticed how birds love to peck through cow poo?). When it rains all that lovely bird poo sitting below our TV aerial and elsewhere on the roof gets washed into the spouting and then into the water tank.

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Now there are millions and millions of tiny E. coli sitting in the bottom of the water tank. And don’t think normal filters are going to block it, as E. coli. will pass straight through anything that filters down to 1 micron. How do you reduce the quantity of E. coli getting into the drinking water supply? The first line of defence starts inside your tank. First-flush systems are very good at stopping the first wave of contaminants (this is a whole

other topic but try googling ‘first flush water treatment’ or similar) and there are also in-tank flushing systems such as Tank-vac. If there is not one attached, install a small stainless steel screening filter onto the one-way valve (to stop back flow) that is attached to the outlet pipe (which droops down from the tank wall to the centre). For added protection, attach a float to the outlet pipe so there is less opportunity to suck sludge off the tank floor. Next, fit a filter (1-5 micron) in line with the flow coming from the pump. You could also add a carbon filter to reduce potential spray residues from your roof and/or the chlorine taste that comes with town-supply. There are two choices to treat the whole house at this point. The first is an ultra-membrane filter fitted after the other filters and pump. (These filter out the nasties to varying degrees from 99.99% up to 99.9999%). The other alternative is UV light, which is very effective in neutralising the bugs and microbes.

UV sterilisation units are fitted after the pump also and most units will sterilize at least 99.97%, so your water will be safe to drink providing you have the units serviced every year. Membrane filtration units on the other hand are usually less maintenance because they can selfclean. Speaking of servicing, we recently had to replace our household water pump. When the unit started making funny whirring noises one Saturday morning, I clambered under the house and found the pump’s casing was cracked. After replacing and reinstalling it, the whole unit then died. The local pump specialist revealed the primary cause of death was electrical fusion. This could have possibly been prevented with regular maintenance. We all resist getting someone to pop out and give the pump and system a once-over every 12-24 months or so. But perhaps after spending $1700 dollars on a new pump, regular maintenance might be a good idea from now on…

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For those of you looking for ways of coping with livestock in a summer drought, it’s worth revisiting suggestions made by Bev Trowbridge in Issue 31 (April 2010, p.6 - we’ll re-post it to our website). Also, we have found out some in other parts of the country have been establishing fodder ‘banks’ to store up pasture for times of drought. The process of re-structuring land use for improved pasture performance is not a quick fix unfortunately, but we’ll have more on that in the near future. One of the simplest strategies is not to hard graze the pasture to dust. Rotating stock quickly through (experts suggest leaving half the leaf bulk) lessens the impact on the roots and a longer recovery period helps the sward recover more quickly.

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