Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

How are you going to raise those livestock animals if you do not have
grains?  You might be able to have pasture year round in the south but not
in the north.  You have to have silage, grain, and pasture to my way of
thinking.

Barbara
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aliza" <aliza@jeffnet.org>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Alternative fuels on the farm


> Maybe this is too simplistic but wouldnt it make more sense for farms to
go
> back to oxen and horses?  I know that it isnt as fast a way to farm but at
> least the horses grow their own feed.  If we were in a no till pasture
based
> model (cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens etc) with raised vegetable and
> grain beds the needs around energy are vastly reduced at least on the
farm.
>
> Speaking of grain - To me grain is one of the biggest drains in a farm
> system.  Going back to a farm system that includes little grain would be
> vastly healthier as would going to food systems that use far less grain.
> There is a mythology that grain for food is cheaper then eating meats but
I
> would think that eating meats and having dairy from notill pasture raised
> animals - cows, goats and sheep alike - would be a much smaller drain on
> resources.  Anyone have any information about resources used for pasture
> based meats and dairy as apposed to growing grains?
>
> Aliza
> who is looking in to making one of those maggot buckets for feeding
broilers
> this late summer.
>
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