Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>]

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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