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  • From: "Dori Green" <dorigreen00 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Converting pasture to vegetable production
  • Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:28:00 EST


Step 1: feeder pigs with a portable shelter and electric net fence (as much to keep neighbors' dogs out as to keep pigs in). You can double-wrap the fencing to make a confined area for small pigs, which will get a patch dug up faster.

Step 2: move the pigs and plant buckwheat on the dug-up pig patch.

Step 3: when the buckwheat is up about 3", put portable chicken pens 4' wide by 20' long (make 'em 10' long and butt them together if there's just one person to move them). Plant clover or put down mulch in the 4' spaces between the pens. I use free leaves from a neighboring town.

Step 3: move the chickens and plant whatever you want in the new fine scratched-up seedbeds created by the chickens.

Pigs also do a great job loosening up that dense winter pack in the barn.

If you don't want to send the pigs to Mr. Sweeney after all their hard work, use potbelly pigs and keep them as pets. Just let your local humane society know you're willing to take in homeless pigs and you'll have all you need (though they might insist that you get them neutered).

Adult pigs can also be kept as pets (but get boars neutered). If there's a Vegetarian Society in your neighborhood offer them an opportunity to adopt one or more pigs for the annual cost of its feed.

Dori No More Rototillers Green
Ash Grove Community Farm


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  • Converting pasture to vegetable production, Dori Green, 03/11/2000

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