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  • From: "mpaloff" <mpaloff@1starnet.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:12:31 -0500


I am curious as to the problems you had with straw.  I had a very nice Saanen dairy goat herd for many years, and I found straw to be excellent bedding.  We would clean it out once or twice a year and use the soiled hay for compost in our garden. 
Regards, Minelle Paloff
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:04 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden

I am deciding what to use for bedding for the goaties this winter as my straw experiment was a fiasco to say the least.  I want to use either rice hulls or shavings.  I garden in heavy clay and rice hulls do great things for heavy clay plus they are easier to handle when cleaning out the pens.  but I am concerned about pesticide residues on the rice hulls.  Any thoughts or suggestions out there?

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 Sun, 8/29/10, Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net> wrote:

From: Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Southwest Climate Change
To: "Austinperm" <austinperm@yahoogroups.com>, "Living on the Land" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 3:40 AM

Does anyone know of an authoritative and detailed summary of environmental changes expected for Texas and the US Southwest as the result of climate change over the next few decades?  I just read such a summary for the UK in Martin Crawford's new Forest Garden book, and thought such a summary would be interesting and useful.

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.net



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