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[Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>]

There was a question regarding the use of comfrey as a fraction of a goat's 
diet, from James David Sneed I believe, that I'm interested in answering.  
Partly because I have a lot of comfrey growing in my garden, and also because 
I have a meat goat on a small urban farm that I'd like to feed exclusively 
onsite.  This morning I started my trial, with one large comfrey leaf, and 
she ate it preferentially to carrot, green beans, snow peas, and leaf 
lettuce.  As with any new forage, and permaculture in general, I want to go 
slowly with this one.  I think I'm being overly cautious, but that always 
seems to pay off.
 
So what I'm hoping for is a few other people, especially from other climates 
and soil types (I live in muggy zone 8 with loamy sand), and with other 
breeds of goats (I have a Kiko), to join the trial.  Of course, if you live 
in a muggy zone 8 climate with loamy sand and a Kiko I'd be glad for the 
redundancy!  We could arrange the trial metrics as a group and report back 
here with our findings.
 
Anyone interested?
Tripp



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
 



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2010 Fruit Tree School Tour CA /8,600 Students, 863 Fruit Trees, 1
Big Impact ~ See it all on Fruit Tree TV  Season 1!

This year's (the seventh) Fruit Tree Tour was an amazing success.
The new school orchards once again surpassed all past years in terms
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Students celebrated their new orchards with hand-painted signs they
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While apprenticing at RavenCroft in Monroe, WA we allowed their nubians to
graze on comfrey on a regular basis.  They were quite fond of nettle too,
with good reason.

Maria

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>wrote:

> There was a question regarding the use of comfrey as a fraction of a goat's
> diet, from James David Sneed I believe, that I'm interested in answering.
> Partly because I have a lot of comfrey growing in my garden, and also
> because I have a meat goat on a small urban farm that I'd like to feed
> exclusively onsite.  This morning I started my trial, with one large comfrey
> leaf, and she ate it preferentially to carrot, green beans, snow peas, and
> leaf lettuce.  As with any new forage, and permaculture in general, I want
> to go slowly with this one.  I think I'm being overly cautious, but that
> always seems to pay off.
>
> So what I'm hoping for is a few other people, especially from other
> climates and soil types (I live in muggy zone 8 with loamy sand), and with
> other breeds of goats (I have a Kiko), to join the trial.  Of course, if you
> live in a muggy zone 8 climate with loamy sand and a Kiko I'd be glad for
> the redundancy!  We could arrange the trial metrics as a group and report
> back here with our findings.
>
> Anyone interested?
> Tripp
>
>
>
> The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
> -Chinese proverb
>
>
>
>
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