Palestinian Farmer
In the Brooder
- Oct 21, 2018
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Hello everybody, I just had a crazy idea, and I wanted to run it through you guys:-
Introduction: I have a large farm of mostly olive trees, fig trees, pomegranate trees, and guava trees.
The trees are planted in rows, and there is a 6 m (20 ft) between each tree. I currently plant vegetables in the area between the trees.
The crazy idea:
Step 1: make 1 m (3 ft) wide , 40 m (130 ft) long raised bed between each row of trees
Step 2: divide that long raised bed from the middle so each half is 20 m long.
Step 3: make raised bed cover similar to this one https://goo.gl/images/454FKQ
the frame would be 1 m wide, 20 m long, and 1 m tall. And it can be dragged to the other half of the raised bed. It will be equiped with roosting bars, and nesting buckets with a back door so eggs can be harvested from outside, and cover some areas with leather/wool to provide shade/warmth if needed.
Step 4: put 20-25 chickens in the covered half of the bed. Plant the other half with vegetables.
Step 5: throw dry leaves, food scraps, charcoal, wood ash, etc... to the chickens so they create compost.
Step 6: after 6 months, move the cover to the other half, where there will be the leftovers of the previous crop, and plant the other half that was tilled and fertilized by the chickens.
And the cycle continues, ideally I want to do this between each row of trees, but if you guys give me the approval, I will start with 1 raised bed per month.
What are your thoughts ?
Introduction: I have a large farm of mostly olive trees, fig trees, pomegranate trees, and guava trees.
The trees are planted in rows, and there is a 6 m (20 ft) between each tree. I currently plant vegetables in the area between the trees.
The crazy idea:
Step 1: make 1 m (3 ft) wide , 40 m (130 ft) long raised bed between each row of trees
Step 2: divide that long raised bed from the middle so each half is 20 m long.
Step 3: make raised bed cover similar to this one https://goo.gl/images/454FKQ
the frame would be 1 m wide, 20 m long, and 1 m tall. And it can be dragged to the other half of the raised bed. It will be equiped with roosting bars, and nesting buckets with a back door so eggs can be harvested from outside, and cover some areas with leather/wool to provide shade/warmth if needed.
Step 4: put 20-25 chickens in the covered half of the bed. Plant the other half with vegetables.
Step 5: throw dry leaves, food scraps, charcoal, wood ash, etc... to the chickens so they create compost.
Step 6: after 6 months, move the cover to the other half, where there will be the leftovers of the previous crop, and plant the other half that was tilled and fertilized by the chickens.
And the cycle continues, ideally I want to do this between each row of trees, but if you guys give me the approval, I will start with 1 raised bed per month.
What are your thoughts ?
