Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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Thanks Kimberly:

I was thinking that if they turn out to be ok for feed I would leave part of 
the crop to mature for that purpose. I guess I ned to do some web surfing to 
find our about their usefulness for this purpose.

Phil
Piedras Blancas
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---- Kimberly Andrews <klandrews@msn.com> wrote: 
> 
> If you are growing a legume for nitrogen fixation into the soil, then you 
> may not want to let it go to seed.  The plant places a great amount of 
> nitrogen from its roots into the seed.  At the first sign of flowering, I 
> break the stems just above the ground surface to keep the nitrogen in the 
> roots and to start using the upper portion as a mulch.  If the stems are 
> not easily breakable (Austrain peas), then I cut them at the ground level.  
>  
> If you are not using the no-till approach, fava beans are great at 
> firing-up a compost pile.
>  
> I know nothing about chicken feed.
>  
>  
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:36:50 -0500> From: pbunch@cox.net> To: 
> > livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [Livingontheland] Fava Beans 
> > as Chicken Feed> > Does anyone have input on using fava beans as chicken 
> > feed? They are a good crop for us and as we will be using them for soil 
> > improvement this would be a good way of getting multiple use out of the 
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