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8 Must Have Cover and Compost Crops For Your Garden and Homestead
As I wrote in my first post on Cindy Conner’s Cover Crops and Compost Crops IN Your Garden DVD, I highly recommend anyone wanting to grow cover crops in their garden to get this DVD. In this post, I share … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Gardening
Tagged alfalfa, austrian winter pea, buckwheat, cereal rye, clover, compost, compost crop, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, garden, gardening, growing, hairy vetch, harvest, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, red clover, wheat
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
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Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Four
Here’s update number four in my Tillage Radish experiment this year. The pictures below were taken last week. We’ve had many nights in the low 30’s, high 20’s but still some fairly warm days and nights for this time of … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, country life, country living, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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Comfrey: Great Source of Homegrown Food for Farm Animals
Within the midst of fall, the vegetation around our mini-farm makes its last burst of growth before winter comes on. Our comfrey is no exception. As I posted before, I love comfrey, and no homestead should be without it especially … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Animals, Gardening
Tagged animal feed, chicken, comfrey, comfrey as feed, comfrey as food, comfrey leaves, country, country living, country skills, farm, farm animal, farm animals, feed ration, food protein, gardening, herb, homegrown animal feed, homestead, mini-farm, nutrient, permaculture, pig, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B-12, vitamin C
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Three
Here’s the third update on the tillage radish cover crop beds. It’s been four weeks since the last update, and the radishes are about two feet tall with tubers ranging from two to three inches in diameter. Some tubers are … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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Cayuga Ducks
Emma began raising five Cayuga ducks these last several days that we got from our friends the Traynor’s. She had been looking to raise some pets after we gave our pet guinea pig “Rosie” to some friends. Ducks were her … Continue reading
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Tagged cayuga ducks, country, duck brooder, ducklings, farm, farm animal, farm animals, homestead, kids pet, permaculture, pet, raising ducks, tick eater, ticks
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