Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

For hoppers cant you cage your garden and leave the chickens loose?  Unless we are talking a huge garden - if you have annual hoppers the chickens would take care of them in short order and your feed bill would sure be a lot lower for a month or so.  Of course if you dont cage the garden and let the chickens out you wont have any beans either.  I have some younger birds in the 4 or 5 month range that think that my pole bean leaves are delicious:o)  They are only down here at the house because of a coyote incident - the LGD is down here in a pasture with the sheep and they found their way into the garden because of a cute little bantie that knows her way around the farm......  I would sure be using those birds to my advantage so the hopper population is depleted and fast.

Blessings,

Aliza
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--- On Sat, 8/14/10, Andeanfx <andeanfx@midrivers.com> wrote:

From: Andeanfx <andeanfx@midrivers.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 8:59 PM

On a smaller scale we have considered a smaller vacuum but it would need to be one filters the hoppers out of the air before the air goes through the impeller such as a shop vac.


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----- Original Message ----- From: <bob@4agoodauction.com>
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Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:31 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] sustainable


> I am in Texas and the grasshoppers have eaten everything in the garden
> except okra and Cucuzza. The cucuzza is thriving without added moisture and
> producing a huge quantity of squash. All the bean crops are gone. I am
> thinking about how to make a giant vacuum cleaner running off the PTO of the
> tractor so I could use the grasshoppers for chicken feed, fish feed and
> garden ammonia. I am rambling but part of sustainability to my way of
> thinking is to find what crops grow and flourish in the "new" higher temps.
> I am looking for seeds from the arid areas of the world to try as I do not
> believe anything will get better in my life time. I don't believe it will be
> worth the effort to salvage the past patterns of farming or life. Better to
> find what will work in the new reality.
> Bob C
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