Market Farming

["Mike Bosko" <mjbosko AT jmtsystems.com>]

Yikes, I guess I need fences.

 

I was going to reply with a ... I HATE MY CHICKENS IN MY GARDENS!!  They dig for bugs and end up digging up the plants, and while dusting themselves they end up making a huge mess not to mention digging up more plants.

 

I had never thought about ecoli... and never had a problem .. BUT a good thing to think about - its incentive to get my fences up to keep them little b@#$@ards out.  grin.

 

-Mike

Ellensburg, WA 

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of robert schuler
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:04 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Free Range Chickens in the Garden

Don't ever allow chickens or any other animals in an area actively producing food. Do they allow pets in restaurants of grocery stores ? no...
Some of our local greens and lettuce growers took a tour of a farm that grows and packages salad mixes for supermarkets, they saw no trees from horizon to horizon when asked why? they said, they don't want to encourage birds to fly over the fields.
If a bird poop is found on a lettuce plant a ten foot circle is marked off and nobody can pick any lettuce from that area. The same if a dog or coyote poops in the field.
In the packing house after the lettuce is washed nobody can even touch the produce, for fear of spreading E coli. One of our growers picked up a head of lettuce, the packing line was shut down and all the lettuce removed and the line was disinfected.
Theses guys take sanitation very seriously , we should do the same...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

Dave Gower wrote:

Hello Everyone!Does anyone have any experience with using chickens within your growing spaces?Any insight would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!Dave

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