Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Fox, Dan" <foxd@sunyocc.edu>]

What about beekeeping equipment? It seems a good investment to get started…sorry, really I agree with you. It takes real creative thinking to become more self-supporting, but for our small homestead, that’s the goal. One of the things we are working on is an ingenious silage made from lawn clippings that we read about in Gene Logsdon’s “All Flesh is Grass” (a great book, by the way) for a small chicken flock’s winter feeding. Other things are water collection, root cellaring, etc. We learn as we go, as I’m sure everyone on this list is, especially with the help of Paul and Barb. Great moderators! Good luck everybody!

 

Dan Fox

 

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From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ken Hargesheimer
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:50 AM
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the Dervaes family - No-till,Permanent Bed Farming

 

When I teach a workshop, the first thing I do is hang this paper on the wall.  Not one gardening center has sponsored a workshop.

 

DO NOT BUY

 

ANYTHING

 

ANY TIME

 

FROM ANYBODY

 

FROM ANY WHERE

 

AT ANY PRICE

 

IN ANY AMOUNT

 

FOR ANY REASON

 

FOR THE GARDEN

 OR FARM!

[There are a few exceptions: seed, drip irrigation, 2-3 hand tools]

Ken Hargesheimer

 

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