Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

> Aliza
> who is looking in to making one of those maggot buckets for feeding broilers
> this late summer."

Right on, Aliza! The info on the subject on my website at the moment is 
minimal, but I will be writing an article on producing more of the 
homestead's poultry feed for the next issue of Backyard Poultry. I could 
post the section updating the maggot-breeding experiment, though, as 
soon as the article is finished.

Last year was the experimental trial run. This year the system is really 
cranking: I have 5 buckets going most of the time. A buddy of mine who 
is a trapper supplies me with "primary ingredient"--I honestly have lost 
 count of the number of 30-35 pound beavers that have already been 
cycled thru the buckets already this fly season. That's a *lot* of free 
protein. And, after working out the kinks last year, odor has been 
minimal, "processing" time amazingly fast.

More later.

~Harvey
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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us