Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

Has anybody on the list experimented with making small-lot silage? Seems 
like a great concept--see
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Small-scale+silage+your+yard+can+be+your+field.+%28Feeds+%26+feeding%29.-a083553803
and
http://www.smallstock.info/tools/feed/silage/lbs02.htm

The thing I don't like about these approaches is the generation of 
plastic trash. I'm thinking about using some food grade plastic drums 
(plastic, yes, but more durable--and if recycled, already in being 
anyway) or discarded wine/whiskey barrels to experiment with the 
concept. If I get serious about the process, I could make a small 
concrete lined, earth trench, I suppose.

Has anyone made silage on the home, as opposed to farm, scale? Model? 
Results?

Thanks.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by 
Chelsea Green Publishing.