Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Very sound ideas imo.
Would grasshoppers be attracted by the color green? If so you could use a 
stationary hopper with some suction?
John

> 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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