Michigan

[BackyardFarmMom]

Netflix has a documentary called Fresh about American farmers and researchers trying to find more efficient systems for growing food... I shall update when I finish watching to let you know if it is worth the watch!

So watched it; learned A LOT!

Did not know that 70% of the corn that is grown in the US is used for feeding cows/pigs/chickens... only 30% of all that is grown is actually consumed by humans! That means if we actually fed cows/chickens what they were meant to eat... grasses/bugs/worms... we would be planting maybe 40% of the crop we grow now!! This makes the soil healthier and would result in less pesticides and fertilizers (If any).

One farmer in Virginia rotates cows, turkey, chickens, and wheat on his land. They all work together to make happy everything!!!

These "farmers" that have turned their farms in to industries are ruining the health of the land, animals, and humans... not to mention breeding super germs. I had no idea that there are sewage lakes from pigs. Toxic and unusable. Full of hormones and antibiotics!

One farmer had to kill his whole lot of pigs after he industrialized... they all had some form of respiratory issues and/ or diarrhea. After he converted back into a more organic farm, he saved $14,000 a year by not using antibiotics to treat the filth he had created among his herd!!!

Makes me angry that people think it is okay to do this and then sell this "product" to the public, and the public is unaware of the toxins they are feeding to their families! This nonsense should be ILLEGAL!!!!

Ahhh! I wish I had more land! What I would do with it...

Oh, the things I would grow!

I guess my almost acre yard will have to do for now... what shall I plant????

 

[chicken grandma]

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Organic eggs are $4.39 at the grocery store. I am HAPPY to pay that price and more for backyard chicken eggs! Because the eggs I have been getting from Snowflake are much larger and heavier than the eggs at the store and I know her hens are in the sun and eating grass. I would encourage farmers to charge at least $4.50 per dozen. Your eggs are truly worth that much.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

grow rhubarb, and strawberries, of course

the big cheap ones we see in the store from CA are grown with pesticides that are horrible...... Really, anything you can grow yourself or buy local is great!

I always marvel at the houses i drive by that have many acres of land, that grow corn just to make silage to feed the cows, and the handful of cows they do have could just as easily eat off that land if they put in something else, and just baled what they needed to get thru the winter..... there is probably a reason, i just don't understand either. mabie all the rising gas prices will poke some people into trying "new" methods. I know the rising chicken feed prices are making me rethink my "pastured poultry" approach, if i left them out all the time i would barely use any feed.

But, i only have a few and mine are dear to me. sigh.

 

[EeyoreD]

mabie all the rising gas prices will poke some people into trying "new" methods. I know the rising chicken feed prices are making me rethink my "pastured poultry" approach, if i left them out all the time i would barely use any feed.

But, i only have a few and mine are dear to me. sigh.

Those rising gas prices will probably lead them to sell the corn for ethanol production and starve the cows.

 

[chicken grandma]

I did type a response to Chicken Grandma. Her ''" Why I Loved Hawaii " post prompted some memories here too.


I was an 18 year old high school drop out, in a USN Air Sea Plane patrol squadron,bound for the Philippine Islands to chart traffic in/on the South China Sea. It was Submarine traffic. I was ignorant to the nth. We Had about a 2 week layover with little to do but wait to move on to the P.I. Imagine mmmmmmmmmmmm y dismay at fresh ripe pineapple (I had never eaten that& I'm not sure I even knew it existed) always,so it seems, available in the mess hall, a swimming pool right outside the barracks, Liberty on Waikiki beach, BLACK sand beaches, 75 cents for a fifth of whatever. I Loved It there. Ahhhh PERSPECTIVES.

Bob thanks for balancing my opinion with some good memories! - We lived there 8 years.

I love the people. I love the island and ocean. I love the fruit and fish. The weather can be crazy. Once it rained for 60 days in a row.
It just isn't paradise. There is no paradise on this earth. The people who live there think that it is harder to live there than it is to live here. I think they are right.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

shamrock... Was it you looking for malays??? I found this ad... OAKLAND/MACOMB
http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/grd/2940532101.html

St. Run Chicks, roughly 5 weeks old.. All BB RED MALAYS...

$10.00 Each, VERY LIMITED AMOUNT.

Adults look like the pictures below, 100% healthy

NOT FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES...

pics below represent adults

(248) 421-0687

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Hey guys, i came across last sundays classified section, and i found an ad for the nestle bottled water in stanwood. these are temporary seasonal positions, but they start out at $12 an hour, and go up to $13 after a month!

Most factories start out much lower for regular operators. Probably already hired people, but never know, right? I'm gonna try and put an ap in anyway. thought i'd put this out there, don't know if anybody else in this area is in dire need of $$$ (i know i am)

https://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=680&ji=2592415&sn=I&tf=JobDescriptionWater.html

 

[uchytil]

TSC in North Muskegon is selling chicks for 50 cents. Pullets and straight run. NH, BSXL, Wyandotte, you name it....

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

grow rhubarb, and strawberries, of course

the big cheap ones we see in the store from CA are grown with pesticides that are horrible...... Really, anything you can grow yourself or buy local is great!

I always marvel at the houses i drive by that have many acres of land, that grow corn just to make silage to feed the cows, and the handful of cows they do have could just as easily eat off that land if they put in something else, and just baled what they needed to get thru the winter..... there is probably a reason, i just don't understand either. mabie all the rising gas prices will poke some people into trying "new" methods. I know the rising chicken feed prices are making me rethink my "pastured poultry" approach, if i left them out all the time i would barely use any feed.

But, i only have a few and mine are dear to me. sigh.

Rhubarb and strawberries sound like a good start! I got some onions in the ground, blueberry bushes, and chives! One of my friends became allergic to strawberries and sesame seeds within the last few years because they spray them with a fertilizer/ pesticide, not sure which, that contains fish or fish hormones... She is very allergic to fish!
Gotta spoil those chickens!

Organic eggs are $4.39 at the grocery store. I am HAPPY to pay that price and more for backyard chicken eggs! Because the eggs I have been getting from Snowflake are much larger and heavier than the eggs at the store and I know her hens are in the sun and eating grass. I would encourage farmers to charge at least $4.50 per dozen. Your eggs are truly worth that much.

Happy Chickens make better eggs!!!

Those rising gas prices will probably lead them to sell the corn for ethanol production and starve the cows.

Probably... Well, they could just feed them more dead cow... What is wrong with people???

 

[Juise]

So watched it; learned A LOT!

Did not know that 70% of the corn that is grown in the US is used for feeding cows/pigs/chickens... only 30% of all that is grown is actually consumed by humans! That means if we actually fed cows/chickens what they were meant to eat... grasses/bugs/worms... we would be planting maybe 40% of the crop we grow now!! This makes the soil healthier and would result in less pesticides and fertilizers (If any).

One farmer in Virginia rotates cows, turkey, chickens, and wheat on his land. They all work together to make happy everything!!!

These "farmers" that have turned their farms in to industries are ruining the health of the land, animals, and humans... not to mention breeding super germs. I had no idea that there are sewage lakes from pigs. Toxic and unusable. Full of hormones and antibiotics!

One farmer had to kill his whole lot of pigs after he industrialized... they all had some form of respiratory issues and/ or diarrhea. After he converted back into a more organic farm, he saved $14,000 a year by not using antibiotics to treat the filth he had created among his herd!!!

Makes me angry that people think it is okay to do this and then sell this "product" to the public, and the public is unaware of the toxins they are feeding to their families! This nonsense should be ILLEGAL!!!!

Ahhh! I wish I had more land! What I would do with it...

Oh, the things I would grow!

I guess my almost acre yard will have to do for now... what shall I plant????

Yes, and this is why we buy only organic and do not buy meat, dairy, or eggs. We buy as much locally as we can, and grow as much as we can ourselves, the only eggs we eat are the eggs from our own free ranging organic chickens. Many of the industrialized "farming" practices probably would be illegal if the factory "farming" industry, big pharma and producers of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides didn't hold so much sway.

Even the white house "organic" garden was protested by Mid America CropLife Association, which represents Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection, and others.

It is also, I think, important to understand that these current factory farming practices, and the toxic bogs they produce, are not at all sustainable. They are going to have to come to an end one way or another.

Semi-recently, Hungary plowed down 1000 acres of corn found to be GM, I believe of Monsanto's, GMOs are illegal there.

Now, if only Monsanto would stop winning against small farmers whose crops have become infested with their nasties, usually completely undesired by the farmer, and in some cases really not desired, as is the case for any organic farm, that would be a start.

You can grow a lot on an acre of land, and if you decide to, here is a good list, if you are interested, of strains owned by Monsanto. This page is also a good resource.