[Market-farming] Peat as animal bedding.

Marty Kraft martyk at allspecies.org
Sat Dec 27 11:16:33 EST 2008


I'm fortunate living in town. I contact people who are raking leaves  
for people. They usually mow the leaves in the street and put them in  
a trailer. They can haul more if the leaves have been ground by the  
mower. The collectors have to pay to dump the leaves somewhere so I  
offer my garden for free. I get a lot  of leaves that way.

Marty, Kansas City
On Dec 27, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Owsley lucy wrote:

> Wouldn't it be a lot easier to run the leaves through a chipper  
> shredder? That's what we do with our leaves (for compost, not  
> bedding as we have not chickens right now). I have tried the mower  
> shredding (with no catcher bag) and we lost most of the leaves-they  
> blew away or sunk into the ground quickly.
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Allan Balliett wrote:
>
>> Bob - How did you shred them with a mower? I mean, did you 'mow' them
>> into the catcher bag, or did you have some sort of 'device' that
>> caught the ground leaves? Sorry, gotsto ask everything! -Allan
>
> Lucy Goodman
> Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
> Eaton, OH
> http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com
>
>
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