Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Smittyctz6 <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>]

Yes can get free manure, wood chips, leaves, et all..

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM, TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

In this area horses always need horse trailers and big pickups to haul them
around. People are scattered all over the county and actually riding horses
to get somewhere would just be impractical. Like so many things, what was
once a necessity is turned into a sport or an art. We see some donkeys and
mules but all these too amount to little more than a hobby - an expensive
hobby buying feed in such an arid climate. And with so little gardening
going on, there's much free manure going to waste.  With our soil and
climate I'd be nuts to try to grow our own compost material. That would be
a huge waste of well water. Plus we get free bedding straw to use for
mulch, and loads of wood chips from the city plant. Recycling waste others
don't want makes perfect sense here. I'd have to be some masochistic purist
to refuse anything imported from outside our own acre.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it
made.
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On 10/17/2009 at 8:21 PM Pumpkin Lady wrote:

>mdnagel@verizon.net wrote:
>>
>> Just how long do you think one can TRUCK in horse manure?  And horses,
>> sorry if I offend anyone here, are of really limited value: look around
>> the world today and see what animals are employed, they're primarily
>> oxen and water buffalo; horses, for their keep, offer very little in
>> comparison.
>
>Ahem, that's because most of the areas that would sustain
>horses usefully as work animals have automobiles for
>transportation. If you were without "trucks" to truck
>things, horses would be a very reasonable thing to have in a
>good many areas of the world. There's a reason you "cart"
>stuff around.
>
>I'm not saying that other animals aren't useful, and there
>ARE saddle cows (yeah, really), but horses are more
>comfortable than cows and typically move faster. That makes
>a difference when mechanized stuff is not around. In areas
>of the world where horses do well and there isn't a lot of
>mechanization, you do find a lot of horses. The thing here
>is, they helped us build our society, and then we got cars
>and made them a luxury animal. Since we don't "need" them,
>people denigrate them.
>
>Morgan
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