I agree with paying farmers but also think they should get paid a slightly higher percentage if they make the land more fertile while farming ie paying it forward. They should also have a slight percent increase for small farmers vs large corporate farms but I am a little bias towards that.
The Gift of Good Land "Wendall Berry" is one of the best books for small to large acre farmers. Its old school, has emphasis on the Amish, horse, sheep, and south American Peruvian mountain agriculture. Gias garden is also a great gardening book for incorporation of edibles into the landscape...
We have stinging nettle in the yard, in fact its so prolific that we could just about live off that alone as a food source. I also have volunteer sweet potatoes, just take a cutting from the runner about 2 or 3 that are 4ft in length, take 1 foot cuttings leaving a couple of leaves, and root...
Thanks NFC, gardening advice and setting up your garden like your old is pretty big. Personally the easiest way to garden I have found after watching people, myself included, picking things like watermelon, turnips, onion etc is pull the beds up higher, plant less, and #1 is stay away from...
I don't have a rooster for sale, but will say this we love our cemani rooster. He just fought off a chicken hawk on Christmas Day and is fairly friendly as you can see in my avatar :). It should also be really interesting to see what the crosses are like color/egg wise.
Hey thanks yall for the warm welcome, this site is really amazing. I have been lurking for a couple of years now and honestly don't know if I could have done it without this site.
My names Brad Edwards and I homeschool four kids along the Alabama Gulf Coast. This site has been really helpful over the years and it was about time I joned. I use chicken guard and rigged it up with braided fishing line, have a homemade dust bather in the run, stapled wire to 2x4 to create...