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  • From: Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.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 16:13:12 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks John - I will probably try both of them and see which one works better for the goats and then go from there.  I really want to use the rice hulls but I cant find any information about pesticide residue issues.

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 Tue, 9/7/10, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

From: John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 2:36 PM


I used wood shavings for many long years because we could afford little else, We still use it because it keeps animals drier than straw in combination with other materials like straw. The last small local sawmill who gave it away for the taking closed it's doors two months ago so we set up a system to go making our own. Rice hulls are supposedly superb to make clay more gardener friendly but no rice is grown here and thus we have no chance of getting the hulls.
 
Shavings made beautiful soil for us on top of rock and I suppose it would do the same on clay as long as you keep it on the surface and never dig it in.
john
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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:04 AM
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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