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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Ten Acres Enough
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:15 -0500

LOL Norma. You would STILL be hungry even AFTER eating pigeon. Not much meat there. You get more food value by feeding the pigeons to the cats to keep the cats around to keep the mice out of your grain. The gain in grain is greater than the calories from the squab, I think....;-) Costs more for a bullet to shoot the pigeon than the meat is worth.
We have mourning doves around here. Same thing, only pathetic sounding.

Dan C.
Belgium,WI

As for the 10 acres book: I recommend "The Gift of Good Land" by Wendell Berry instead. Sure, it might not have all those technical details, but it gets you in the mood to do good things with the land and to learn from your place. Our ancestors didn't have books, but they made things and grew things. Attitude is probably 90% (and hunger).
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:39:02 -0400
From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>

I have it Mike. It's a good book. Has everything from how to lay out the
"homestead" to what you can grow . . . including squab. Call me squeamish,
but I think I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat pigeon.
Norma








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