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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:16:41 -0500 (EST)
One option here is to buy the BCS used. We did that several years
ago, buying ours for half the cost of new. It served us well until I left
it outside one winter, which allowed one wheel brake to lock up an the carb to
get mucked up. Still cheaper to repair it than buy new. The range of
implements is pretty impressive too, and some of those are relatively easy to
find used. The Earthtools folks have a Used Implements section of their
website that might be worth watching, and craigslist often has used implements
(at least in our area). We've gotten both our rototiller and our sickle
bar mower that way. Getting our BCS up and running this spring is fairly
high on my to-do list, and happily it's simple enough mechanically that I can do
most of that work myself. Just haven't had time yet to get after it.
Most of our early beds are already set to go, or need something I can do without
the BCS, so I have the luxury this winter/spring to work on other things
first. But later this year I'll be needing it, so it's definitely on my
get-it-running-soon list.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 2/16/2012 6:51:30 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
etienne AT lejardinduvillage.ca writes:
Hi Harriet, |
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[Market-farming] Making raised beds,
Etienne Goyer, 02/15/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds, Richard Stewart, 02/15/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds,
John Ehrlich, 02/15/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds,
Peter Worsley, 02/15/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds, Etienne Goyer, 02/16/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds,
Peter Worsley, 02/15/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 02/16/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Making raised beds, Joshua Bryceson, 02/17/2012
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds,
Harriet Allen, 02/16/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds, Etienne Goyer, 02/16/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds, KAKerby, 02/16/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds,
Pam Twin Oaks, 02/16/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds,
Etienne Goyer, 02/16/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds, Vern and Amy, 02/18/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] making raised beds,
Etienne Goyer, 02/16/2012
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