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  • From: "Claudia & Linda" <dragonhill2@netzero.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] toxins effect on premature labor
  • Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:36:38 -0500

The power company sent a tree cutting service thru to cut down all the trees and brush on our front fence line which runs under their power lines.  I disconcerted them by insisting they NOT haul off all the brush and trees they cut, but rather, put it across the fence into my pasture.  They didn't understand this at all, but I gained 1) browse for my animals 2) firewood 3) wood for many projects, e.g. hurdles, shelters, poles, tools, craft projects, etc. 4) brush to fill in wash areas on a steep slope and these brush piles will also make nice huglekulture areas next spring.  Last, but not least, keeping all this wood and brush on our property complies with a maxim I try to adhere to:  Don't let any more of the fertility of the land, leave the land than absolutely necessary.  Those trees grew from the fertility of our soil.  Why shouldn't that go back into our soil?  Areas that have poor clay soil and are subject to erosion can be helped by having brush piles strategically placed, covered with manure from the barn, planted with vine crops and allowed to break down to return their nutrients to the soil over time.
 
And, to get to the spraying that the utility company followed up the clear-cutting with, I am lucky enough to work full time on the farm now and was watching for the contracted sprayer.  When he arrived, I met him, told him I have milk goats that could not be exposed to the possible harmful effects of herbicide sprays and that I myself am very chemical sensitive (true) and I really didn't want him to spray along my property as I feared for my health.  He didn't argue a bit.  Didn't even have to remind him on his subsequent return visits.  Other trees and brush up and down the line are brown and dying.  Ours isn't.  This won't make the utility company happy, of course, but it will be years before they will have to worry about anything that grows along the line.  Besides, what they have done, in effect, is pollard the trees, meaning I will have all sorts of useful wood for making hurdles, woven fence panels, trellises, and whatever else my imagination can come up with.
 
Claudia



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