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  • From: Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@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 16:33:27 -0700 (PDT)

Aliza, I am lucky, in that the floor is sand, the luck runs out in other ways;) The hay will mold if the layers are thick, but I hand fluff each layer. I'd rather use shavings but I don't know where to find them other than by the bag price:(
 
Emory,
   I asked that ? on another list and didn't get an answer. I remember seeing the dry line move over on some post somewhere but ? with the odd droughts in places like GA that got tons of rain when I lived there as a teen/.early twenty? etc?? we need some detailed maps of the ocean currents/temp of them, and data from that?? and where the chemtrails will be most prevalent;).  I drove a bit east of here last week, about ? 30 mi and then took a south west road weaving back and it was pretty fried down there so I am in a strip of lusher green where I am in E TX where it would have been?? a green given before?? I mean the years of drought were there in this time frame but ? And if you mowed your grass too short, it's fried here. Why did farmers not figure it out that if you cut your hay really low to the ground, you shock it so bad it has trouble coming back in the TX summer heat???. I have taught some farmers here that lived all their life a thing or two. One of them made the best money on hay ever last year. He didn't cut it down low.

 
something weird in my main pen - in the winter it wicks up moisture from the floor and no matter how much material I put on it, it isnt dry for the girls -
 
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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

 
 
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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