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Raising your own food
Uploaded on February 18, 2012I have a small farm. I raise about one pig a year, I have a few cows, and a couple dozen chickens.(we also have goats and horses) and I also plant a BIG garden. There is something about eating food that you grew or raised yourself that is unmatched. Anybody else raise their own food?
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I really enjoy the veggies from my small garder. (Tomatoes, Lettuce, Peppers, Squash, Asparagus, strawberrys and rasberrys, and herbs) but i don't have room to raise any livestock.
Every chance I get. I live in a townhouse but I put in garden in containers every year. Someday I will get back to having some elbow room, my goal is to have to buy a little as possible from the store.
Yup.
Looking forward to getting the garden going again for another year, and we usually home butcher each winter with my wife's family.
Time to get a load of horse manure on the garden before it is plowed. Makes the vegtables grow good.
we raise our own beef and grow some sweet corn
Sarge, I've got a section in mine that's pretty poor, got some top soil engaged from a neighbor to improve it. That horse manure sounds like a fine idea to add to the mix. Thanks. See ya in a couple of weeks.
We have a few hundred head of beef cattle and two hundred head of dairy cattle, as well as a couple dozen chickens. We also grow about 5000 acres of crops mostly field corn but also small patches of sweet corn and tomatoes. Yes I would agree in that growing your own food taste so much better.
mdpaulus, just curious, where are you located and is your corn for feed or ethanol? I visited Indiana a few years back and the cornfields seemed to reach from horizon to horizon and I was told it was for ethanol production. Regards.......
We have farm land in both Illinois and Iowa and looking to expand to South Dakota. All of our crops go into our cattle or sold as food crops. However lots of people in our area do have contracts with ethonal plants. It all comes down to money for most people but our family is traditional (and we get the better end of the deal most times).
I was hoping you'd say something along that line. I'm having a problem understanding the wisdom behind burning our food.
We are too, considering their are much better alternatives as switchgrass, that has been proven to have better energy output than any other crop. The problem is that switchgrass is not very abundant any more and to raise like a crop has not yet been done although testing is taking place. The other problem I have with ethonal is we are losing so much wildlife habitat to agriculture but for what, gas? I have no problem with it as long as it is necissary for human consumption and survival but not for a human want like gas.
Amen and well put. It wasn't a very well thought out idea, was it? The folks that rent our ground used to put out acres and acres of corn but with the deer, the insects, and the actual seed cost, they went to baleage instead, cheaper and the cows like it just as well, so if you're going to do corn, you should be getting the most bang for your buck, look to me like. Regards...............
I also raise my own livestock and grow a garden. Chicken manure is the best for gardens guys. Because of the nitrogen in it, it really makes good fertilizer. Does anyone make their own flour though?
Too much chicken manure is actually bad as the high nitrogen can "burn" the roots of plants. But in smaller doses it's great. I decomp horse and chicken manure in a bucket of water then use it to fertilize.
We were camping one weekend and there was a couple next to us from a metropolitan area. We were talking with them and the conversation turned to gardening. I said something about putting chicken litter on my garden and they wanted to know if that didn't make things taste funny. You gotta smile at such things. Regards............
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I really enjoy the veggies from my small garder. (Tomatoes, Lettuce, Peppers, Squash, Asparagus, strawberrys and rasberrys, and herbs) but i don't have room to raise any livestock.
We are too, considering their are much better alternatives as switchgrass, that has been proven to have better energy output than any other crop. The problem is that switchgrass is not very abundant any more and to raise like a crop has not yet been done although testing is taking place. The other problem I have with ethonal is we are losing so much wildlife habitat to agriculture but for what, gas? I have no problem with it as long as it is necissary for human consumption and survival but not for a human want like gas.
Every chance I get. I live in a townhouse but I put in garden in containers every year. Someday I will get back to having some elbow room, my goal is to have to buy a little as possible from the store.
Looking forward to getting the garden going again for another year, and we usually home butcher each winter with my wife's family.
Time to get a load of horse manure on the garden before it is plowed. Makes the vegtables grow good.
we raise our own beef and grow some sweet corn
Sarge, I've got a section in mine that's pretty poor, got some top soil engaged from a neighbor to improve it. That horse manure sounds like a fine idea to add to the mix. Thanks. See ya in a couple of weeks.
We have a few hundred head of beef cattle and two hundred head of dairy cattle, as well as a couple dozen chickens. We also grow about 5000 acres of crops mostly field corn but also small patches of sweet corn and tomatoes. Yes I would agree in that growing your own food taste so much better.
We have farm land in both Illinois and Iowa and looking to expand to South Dakota. All of our crops go into our cattle or sold as food crops. However lots of people in our area do have contracts with ethonal plants. It all comes down to money for most people but our family is traditional (and we get the better end of the deal most times).
I was hoping you'd say something along that line. I'm having a problem understanding the wisdom behind burning our food.
Amen and well put. It wasn't a very well thought out idea, was it? The folks that rent our ground used to put out acres and acres of corn but with the deer, the insects, and the actual seed cost, they went to baleage instead, cheaper and the cows like it just as well, so if you're going to do corn, you should be getting the most bang for your buck, look to me like. Regards...............
I also raise my own livestock and grow a garden. Chicken manure is the best for gardens guys. Because of the nitrogen in it, it really makes good fertilizer. Does anyone make their own flour though?
Too much chicken manure is actually bad as the high nitrogen can "burn" the roots of plants. But in smaller doses it's great. I decomp horse and chicken manure in a bucket of water then use it to fertilize.
We were camping one weekend and there was a couple next to us from a metropolitan area. We were talking with them and the conversation turned to gardening. I said something about putting chicken litter on my garden and they wanted to know if that didn't make things taste funny. You gotta smile at such things. Regards............
Yup.
mdpaulus, just curious, where are you located and is your corn for feed or ethanol? I visited Indiana a few years back and the cornfields seemed to reach from horizon to horizon and I was told it was for ethanol production. Regards.......
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