Oats are often used as a "natural herbicide" - grown as a companion
(or starter) crop to help establish forage legume crops by shading
areas where weeds would grow.
Carla Emery says that chickens have to eat hulled oats. I have no way
to hull them, and no money to get the hull-less variety. Is there
anything I can do without a grinder?
I use rolled oats a good bit, not only in oatmeal, but also in meatloaf
and in baking-like apple oat pies. Five pounds of oats would go a long
way with me if I had a way to hull them. From Jeavons book, the chart
says I could get 3.7 pounds yield per 100 sf. I can spare a plot that
size-very manageable. Perhaps I should just suck it up and buy a mill.
Bev
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