Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["J Bailey" <jbmail@isomedia.com>]

We have a 'date' with a friend who butchers every kind of critter for when 
the weather is better. We just couldn't face learning while it's nearly 
freezing, dark & pouring rain, especially when we don't have a covered area 
to work in right now. The info you have is great though, and something I 
look forward to sharing with others and keeping myself. It's good to have 
such a detailed guide as a back up.

The rest of our flock is working over the sod we just flipped. Hopefully 
we'll just have to till it once, and keep it in shape by non-mechanical 
means after it's been in production.

How do no-till folks break virin sod to veggie gardening?
--Joanna

> To Joanna and others who want to butcher their own birds but haven't
> tried it yet, may I offer my updated article on the subject at
> http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Butchering-Ready.html
>
> Your best learning option is of course to work with someone who's
> experienced. In lieu of that better option, I think the article is about
> as good a guide as you'll find. (And, with the recent update, it now has
> 3 doz illustrative pix.)
>
> Please use and, if you find it useful, pass on the url.
>
> Harvey in northern VA
> http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Home.html

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