Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[BT Benjaminson <btbenj@netvision.net.il>]

Aerobic compost tea and mulch can significantly help miserable soil, also 
making dents, holes, and shallow ditches to collect water and organic 
matter.
As for unwanted vegetation, IMHO goats are better than other options.
A goatherd or two might be cheaper than fencing depending on 
circumstances--if the goats are there temporarily. They do naturally stick 
together in a herd.
Bat-Tzion
Negev, Israel


> On 5/25/2006 at 10:37 PM Amanda Peck wrote:
>
> > I've got a large and neglected field up the hill, just got some of the
> > privet and blackberries bush-hogged.

> > 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.