permaculture

["Lisa Rollens" <rollens@fidnet.com>]

Hi All,

You are such a knowledgeable bunch I thought I would try to pick your brains 
again!  I surely appreciate all the tidbits I pick up here.  

I have a pasture that is getting overtaken by prickly pear cactus.  I 
understand bushhogging only makes it worse, and have seen that.  So I need to 
dig some up, but would like to try using them.  From Cornucopia II I see that 
the pads are good for human and livestock food/feed, but how does one 
actually prepare them?  Has anyone actually done this and can pass on 
specific "how-to"s?  I thought of holding them over a fire briefly to burn 
off the thorns....????

It's been a dry year here, as usual, and the pastures are all burned up, and 
livestock feed would be a good thing.  I understand these pads can be sliced 
and sun-dried also.

Any help anyone can give would be appreciated!  Thanks,

Lisa, in the MO Ozarks, USA