Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Amanda Peck" <ap615@hotmail.com>]

I've got a large and neglected field up the hill, just got some of the 
privet and blackberries bush-hogged.

Next task may be a huge stand of poison ivy, surrounding a wet-weather pond.

Would corn gluten help and--to keep on topic--help build the probably 
miserable soil up there?

My first thought turned out to be a bit unpractical--a friend has the goats, 
would be very happy to bring them over, but no electricity up there, haven't 
found (affordable or not, actually) a solar electric fence that's listed for 
goats.

I'm open to suggestion.  Black plastic covered by bark mulch might get 
what's not in the pond or surrounded by hackberry trees.