Posted: 22 November 2009 – 3:18 pm
A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930′s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson a revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices. Further, it is with some irony that one has to consider the big picture here, as the government stepped in with better practices and suggestions about limited scope in the 1930′s – since the 1970′s the say get big or get out.
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Posted: 7 November 2009 – 8:48 pm
Had the question from a friend the other day about certain manures and I had to think and even looked one of them up in order to ensure I had the correct answers. So the question is how come some manures are used on gardens and some manures are typically not. The question was specifically what about cat or pig manures and there was a base assumption that chicken (or domestic fowl of any sort) was generally to hot with nitrogen to use readily.
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Posted: 6 November 2009 – 11:01 pm
Over the years I have started more than my own fair share of compost piles on my own properties. The basic concept is so simple and in reality anyone can do it. Some of my greatest warm moments have come from the time or two that I have shown someone else how to set up their own compost pile and have helped them get it going.
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