Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

As Barb reminds me ;-) pigeons etc. aren't to furnish forth a meal of meat, 
but used to flavor certain dishes. Think Cornish Game hens. In most cultures 
they don't need a big honkin slab of meat to make a meal. And of course if 
they're raised for eating no bullet required.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/18/2008 at 12:42 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>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
>>
>>