Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

The simplest thing might be low-tech - a big sheet of graph paper.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/30/2007 at 10:35 AM Carrie Shepard wrote:

>LOL,
>   
>  OK, maybe this means I'm trying to do too many things at once, but I've
>been mulling this same question over for a month.  I know that individual
>breeds of livestock have cool computer softwares now like for rabbits: 
>http://evans-software.com/
>   
>  but I need like a master planner  that would include lambing dates,
>kidding dates, worming dates for each animal on the place (chickens, dogs,
>one cat, etc.), lactation dates/rates for each doe along with the
>gardening plans.  That reminds me I need to tattoo the rest of the does
>I'm keeping in the rabbitry before I start breeding them here in another
>month.  I need something to help keep track of the pigs ages so I don't
>miss their heats as dd#2 wants to breed them and we don't have a boar so
>that means a little extra planning.
>   
>  At one point I started notebooks for each separate enterprise, but that
>doesn't help you compare info and combine tasks onto ONE calendar.
>   
>  For succession planting it seems I've seen some forms somewhere (maybe
>Eliot Coleman has some charts or something), but it sure would be great to
>have the individual seed info listed on a spreadsheet I guess with a chart
>of what needs to happen when  and where as the plants mature and be able
>to overlap or overlay all that info so I'm not just running circles and
>being a crisis manager instead of planning things well out.   
>   
>  Hoping someone has some great tips for this question also!
>  Carrie
>  
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