[Market-farming] grasshoppers

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Mon Jun 22 15:04:08 EDT 2009


Bear in mind also that poultry will be leaving fresh manure wherever 
they go. This isn't a problem in some situations (in some it may even 
be an advantage), but it is a problem in others.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Marie Kamphefner wrote:

>
> Regards to the list:
>  
> In my experience with guineas, they eat all the green strawberries and 
> peck holes in every ripe or semi ripe tomato. I’ve seen them jump up 
> and get hornworms off tomato plants. They do eat grasshopper, ticks 
> and who knows what else.
>  
> Marie in Missouri
>  
>
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