Hi You might want to think about investigating permaculture. We have a smallholding in Scotland which I bought recently, it has been farmed mostly for livestock. The previous owners had a veg garden and kept pigs. We have already started planning and developing the site using permaculture principles to grow food for ourselves with perhaps a little left over to sell to our local community.
Cheers Chris At 13:52 07/04/2006 +0900, you wrote: > >Congratulations on getting planted! > > > >I don't have the yard for dirt gardening, so I've been slowly moving > >over to hydroponics, it's really very interesting and quite cheap, I > >recommend it to anyone. > >*The first duty of the agriculturist must always be to understand >that he is a part of Nature and cannot escape from his environment.* >He must therefore obey Nature's rules. Whatever intrusions he makes >must be, so to say, in the spirit of these rules; they must on no >account flout the underlying principles of natural law nor be in >outrageous contradiction to the processes of Nature. To take a modern >instance, the attempt to raise natural earth-borne crops on an >exclusive diet of water and mineral dope -- the so-called science of >hydroponics -- is science gone mad: it is an absurdity which has >nothing in common with the ancient art of cultivation. >-- Chapter 12, Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease, by Sir >Albert Howard, 1945. >http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/howardSH/SHtoc.html > >Having no yard doesn't have to stop you doing it right. I've grown >food everywhere I've been in the last 23 years, including on a beach, >in a 19th-floor apartment in Hong Kong measuring 450 sq ft and no >balcony, in an even smaller apartment in Chiba that had 20 sq ft of >cement outside. You've got windows? Grow food, use soil, put a worm >bin under the sink. A lot of people around the world are doing that >after visiting our website, many of them had never grown anything >before. Some of them liked it so much they went and bought some land >so they can do it properly. > >Hydroponics? Naah. > > >Just wondering, is your compost all the way broken down? What is > >"crusher dust"? If your "barn litter" is mostly dung and sawdust like > >it is around here, watch out for the leech from the sawdust, it can > >wreak havok on roots. Just a warning. > >What leeches from the sawdust, and in what way does it wreak havoc on roots? > >Best > >Keith > > > >Keep us (me) advised on your progress. I'm working on a large > >community garden w/ a local community center this summer, getting kids > >in the dirt and making some food in the process. > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ------------ Chris Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
