Thank you for this Dawie. Very enjoyable. Have you ever checked out Joel
Saltin's website _http://www.polyfacefarms.com/_
(http://www.polyfacefarms.com/) ? I found it very interesting. I
am thinking of getting a few of his
books. And is very nice country there too.
blessings
Shan
It's not a good grazing system though, high priest of the pasture
he ain't. Beyond organic, LOL! - he hasn't even got there yet, let
alone beyond it. Be wary when you see that phrase.
It's not that much use just rotating the livestock around the grass,
you have to rotate the grass too, right around the farm, followed by
a succession of other crops. Otherwise it's just shifting
agriculture, primitive.
See Ley farming:
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#ley
While Salatin's Pastured Poultry system is obviously an improvement
on a Tyson's broiler-house, it's still a confinement operation, not
free range. The birds don't get enough exercise, it's
labour-intensive (you have to move the pens twice a day) and other
users of the system report that chickens' legs get broken by the pens
when they're being moved.
Naah.
Best
Keith
[Biofuel] Crosspost: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
Dawie Coetzee
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:44:32 -0700
Posted on the Distributism Yahoo group:
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/distributism/message/10703 _
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/distributism/message/10703 )
This is an EXCELLENT essay by a family farmer in Virginia who also wrote a
book
by the same title. It documents in spades how the We're from the
government
and we're here to help you permeates EVERY aspect of our lives.
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1 Sep 03
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory
system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to
eliminate
freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from
a
federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got
sent to
the principal's office.
And it doesn't stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of
government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These
agencies
are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western,
egocentric,
compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process.
Remainder of article here:
_http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm_
(http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm)
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