Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

What about running chickens in the garden(s)?  Of course, you'd have to 
manage them, but in the end, when running tractors isn't viable (fuel 
expense), you'd have a "solution."  Always look to eliminate expenses; as 
Joel Salatin demonstrates, take advantage of allowing animals to do what they 
do best to do work that would otherwise need to be done by yourself or by 
machine.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Aug 14, 2010 08:43:34 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>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 
>