Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

Is there a Holistic Management organization in your area?  They would know.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: Liz

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:01 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] I live here an in the middle of this issue RE: Grazing on Public Lands

At 04:32 PM 7/30/2008, you wrote:

>Glad to have your input as a range ecologist. I don't post all these
>things because I just happen to agree with everything, but to
>provoke discussion on issues the public needs to see. As a teen in
>the '50s I worked with my father with herefords on his place, made
>fence by hand in east TX summer heat (endless), and in '57 we sodded
>fifty acres in coastal bermuda for permanent pasture. It worked very
>well with vetch and cut way down on spending for hay, not to mention
>holding soil in place and doing away with any need for annual
>seeding. My best memories were circling those pastures, high up on a
>tractor, mowing to hold down weeds and spur bermuda spread, clounds
>and blue sky overhead, without a worry in the world.

Do you happen to know what would be appropriate for permanent pasture
in southwest Virginia, if anything? I've been talking to the local
farmers and to the ag agent about putting some of my land in pasture,
and everyone assures me it can't be done without a tractor (or hiring
someone to do it for me). I have 29 acres, but it's in long narrow
pieces that aren't really suitable for tractor cultivation anyway.
Something that didn't have to be reseeded every year would be ideal.
I realize you didn't have the same kind of winters in east Texas that
we have here, but is there anything you can suggest for this area?

Anyone?

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com

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