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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="davieh3350" data-source="post: 7310334" data-attributes="member: 52292"><p>You could try an old idea I saw in a book.</p><p>Base of a compost heap was made using a layer of branches and cuttings the thickness of the guys thumb. Built up to about a foot thick, then straw and dung, some lime and anything else organic, some soil from ditches (wanted to build a few silt traps on the farm, but don’t have it now) got added and kept moist but not wet.</p><p>I think they were also put down as a track to drive on so they would get crushed open a bit and to protect the soil a bit too.</p><p></p><p>also there was a Good bit in the book about sacrificial parts of fields. He would build his haystack in a corner that was to be a crop the next year and then let his cows just go at it.</p><p>It was long grass stacked in layers, so they had to pull at it. He said that they didn’t “waste” too much.</p><p>in the spring he pushed it all up (well would have been done by hand) and made his compost heap there.</p><p>I did the same years ago at home with bales, the cows were stripping and treading a lot of the straw we were feeding them, so I kept them on the same patch and it built up a thick Matt of hay straw and dung... but I failed to make use of the muck and it lay heaped up for years and lost most of its value.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davieh3350, post: 7310334, member: 52292"] You could try an old idea I saw in a book. Base of a compost heap was made using a layer of branches and cuttings the thickness of the guys thumb. Built up to about a foot thick, then straw and dung, some lime and anything else organic, some soil from ditches (wanted to build a few silt traps on the farm, but don’t have it now) got added and kept moist but not wet. I think they were also put down as a track to drive on so they would get crushed open a bit and to protect the soil a bit too. also there was a Good bit in the book about sacrificial parts of fields. He would build his haystack in a corner that was to be a crop the next year and then let his cows just go at it. It was long grass stacked in layers, so they had to pull at it. He said that they didn’t “waste” too much. in the spring he pushed it all up (well would have been done by hand) and made his compost heap there. I did the same years ago at home with bales, the cows were stripping and treading a lot of the straw we were feeding them, so I kept them on the same patch and it built up a thick Matt of hay straw and dung... but I failed to make use of the muck and it lay heaped up for years and lost most of its value. [/QUOTE]
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