Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

For all on the list who raise poultry, or aspire to, may I commend to 
you a new magazine, Backyard Poultry, a spinoff of Countryside magazine, 
founded by JD Belanger--most likely many of you know of it. I think 
Elaine Belanger is doing an excellent job of shaping the magazine to be 
a mouthpiece for the homestead perspective on the subject (as opposed to 
that of the extension agent/ag college crowd).

This has to count as a shameless plug rather than a neutral post because 
I have been writing a lot for BYP. The fourth issue just came out, and 
to date I have had 7 articles, starting with the second issue--using 
electronet fencing to manage poultry; working with the cock(s) in the 
flock; a rebuttal of the ag college perspective on poultry feeding; 
working with broody hens; the homestead waterfowl flock; and, in the 
current issue, making your own poultry feeds, and homestead poultry 
butchering. Next issue will feature production of more of the flock's 
feed from the homestead's own resources, and a collection of "war 
stories"--accounts of our experiences of predator attacks over the 
years, what we learned and how we adjusted.

Hope any of you who give the new mag a peek will find it useful.

~Harvey
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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us