Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

Thanks, Dan and Elizabeth, for info about making silage--I hope to do an 
experimental batch this season.

Elizabeth, I don't make privacy screenings with plants per se. However, 
I grow more every season of feed corn (Hickory King--really tall), 
sorghum, sunflowers, and amaranth--all plants that could be used in such 
a planting. I love growing them, for their beauty as well as for their 
contributions to the flock's feed.

Another screening plant (this one perennial) might be Siberian pea 
shrub, Caragana arborescens. I'm planting six of them here this season. 
The seeds are high in protein and from what I read relished by chickens.

~Harvey
> I might be able to help shed some light here for you Harvey. I use a 
> chipper/ shredder . . .
>
> BTW Harvey, are you growing your own living privacy fences for your 
> chicken's edibles? If so, how do you like it?
>
> Eizabeth
> Hi Harvey,
> A good topic. I have done farm scale and a little small scale by 
> accident when composting. I think that there are some points to cover 
> that are important. . . Dan


--
Harvey in northern Va
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My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by 
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