Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[CHERYL WESOLOWSKI <mullski1@msn.com>]

I can't just run chickens in my garden and doubt
bob could also.  my regular chicken destroy everything by looking for bugs but my bantams are quite gentle. Try bantams and see if it works for ya.  Don't even think about full size girls. 
 
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:51:42 -0500
> From: mdnagel@verizon.net
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable
>
> 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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