permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> If you are in a seasonally cold/freezing wet coastal climate with 
> adequate food to support wild flocks, maybe puffins would work out 
> better.  I had puffin last summer, it was quite tasty (wild puffin mind 
> you, on the first day of the season, what a treat... :-).

I am inland, Zone 7 border with Zone 6 - 30 miles East of me deciduous 
hardwood trees'
leaves turn several weeks later in the late Fall. Cornish Rock hens might 
work out here just fine.
The thing is that I have acres of mixed greens (turnip, kale, collards, 
mustard) to feed goats, laying hens and
guineas. I could raise field corn, barley, oats, rye, wheat, milo, sorghum to 
feed all these animals plus I have a
heavy duty grain roller mill to crack it into feed (hull and all; quick way 
to combine it. Am thinking now about growing
grain crops for the livestock and me. All I need is corn and maybe kenaf and spelt; would make do with corn - grind into 
grits and cornmeal.

LL