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  • From: "Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] A No Till Question for Larger Fields
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:12:19 -0600

Looks like an interesting one, but, I'm going to have to save quite a few pennies even if I but it used.

Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:57
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] A No Till Question for Larger Fields




Not sure if it's already been mentioned on the site, but in this context
I recommend J. Russell Smith's TREE CROPS. Smith's sage advice could be
a life-saver for the way we do agriculture in this country, but I think
we haven't followed the road to ruin quite far enough yet to be able to
recognize it. I just finished reading TC, and it has given me a lot of
ideas for combining trees and pasture, livestock (mixed poultry in my
case), and other elements in the homestead. Already I am planting
mulberry and chestnut trees on my pasture. The mulberries are super easy
to grow and drop a *lot* of fruit when they are in season--free snacks
for the flock. One of the biggest prob's with growing chestnut is the
chestnut weevil. Chickens should help control them, both in emergent
phase in the spring, and when they are going to ground in the fall. As
for the nuts, any surplus over what we need I plan to feed to the flock.

~Harvey


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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us
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