Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Ryan VanderVeen" <ryanvanderveen@excite.com>]

You hear people speak of hybrid "vigor" in regards to livestock.  I think 
it's all about selecting the animals within a breed that do the best on less 
grain, stay the most healthy, are the best tasting, etc. and use them in your 
breeding program.As we all know, most livestock today have been bred as grain 
dumps and we are loosing sustainable genetics (the ability to convert forage 
to meat & milk).See this site for heritage breeds http://www.nehbc.org/ 
and http://www.nehbc.org/gallery.html for poultry heritage breeds. Ryan --- 
On Thu 08/09, < livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org > wrote: