Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["McBride & Putnam" <dragonhill2@netzero.net>]

I'd like to try Tagasaste too but I'm not sure it can grow in our zone (6/7).  Maybe I could get it started in a few micro-climate areas.   And I was thinking the other day that sorghum and some of the small grain could be grown in small spaces just about anywhere around the yard and garden, even grown as ornamentals around the house, until they are ready to cut for the chickens.  I think a surprising amount of small animal feed could be grown in this way.

 

Claudia

 

 

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From: Dianne Palmer-Quay

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:48 AM

Subject: [Livingontheland] animal feed

I am trying Tagasaste this year as an supplemental animal feed.  I have purchased the seeds from Bountiful Gardens www.bountifulgardens.org (the seed catalog side of Ecology Action - the John Jeavons/How to Grow More Vegetables group).  Evidently it is a shrub that can be used for forage and it has a good tolerance for drought conditions.  People are using it in Australia.  Google it for more information.  I have also set aside garden space for velvet beans, millet and perhaps sorghum for cut and carry forage. Anyone who has experience in feeding small ruminants with a cut and carry system - please share ideas.

 

Dianne (who expects to run out of her current hay supply in early June)

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