Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

Harvey has said he does this on his site but he has learned to really manage them and when they are in and when they are out.  www.themodernhomestead.us (harvey's site) is the best resource I have found for managing poultry to do what they do best - eat bugs/weeds and make eggs and meat.

Blessings,

Aliza

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Mon, 8/16/10, mdnagel@verizon.net <mdnagel@verizon.net> wrote:

From: mdnagel@verizon.net <mdnagel@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:51 AM

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
>
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