Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[blademan25@yahoo.com]

I hate the high price of hay.  Having a herd of dairy goats is 
cost-prohibitive with the sky-rocketing feed prices.  Our milk customers are 
trying to get locally produced fresh raw milk and being in southern 
california - that is near impossible.  Face it - most of our world 
populations are centered around metropolitan centers.

We have surrounding un-used acreage that would be ideal for growing grains 
and legume crops, however our ever-environmentally conscious government has 
labeled this property as environmentally sensitive habitat because of the 
vernal tidal pools and the fairy shrimp.  

I completely agree with you on the horse comment, however we have a voting 
population that votes on their emotions rather than facts, and face it - 
horses are regarded as "pretty, majestic, beautiful, etc"  instead of "food 
consuming, poop producing, leather supplying, meat supplying, labor and 
energy consuming livestock".


--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Daniel Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] high price of hay
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:35 AM
> I like the high price of hay, since I don't have animals
> to keep my 
> grass under control, but I've said it before and
> I'll say it again: 
> "Horse....it's what's for dinner."
> It won't be long before we see the same situation in
> other pets.
> Our society and its luxuries are finally showing the signs
> of 
> realization that the things we have been sold are for the
> sake of the 
> selling, not for the sake of usefulness.
> 
> Dan C.
> 
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