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Hi all,

as closer our farm gets (October/November my husband and I start) as more exiting we get.

We will have to plant first about 250 fruit and edibles trees from all around the world, because they overgrow our house and backyard where we live now and need urgently out of their pots into proper ground.
(Mistake Nr 1, yes we haven't much nitrogen fixer and that's how a food forest starts usually)

We will add some Leucaenas between them but I am sure, not enough.
A good food forest starts with 80% nitrogen fixers..(Geoff Lawton)

Here comes the Pinto Peanut (Arachis pintoi) in the game.
Its is a leguminous ground cover and great forage, as more it get grazed as better it grows.

That's a whole carpet of nitrogen fixer so we get the balance...

Now we also want fowls (Chicken, Guinea Fowls and Geese)

Geese are grazer and prefer soft fresh grown grass before all others.

But considering the nutritious value of Pinto peanuts I reckon it would the a good goose fodder as well.
Unfortunately there is nothing in the web written about geese grazing on Pinto peanuts.

Is here somebody in the forum who has seen his geese gobbling on Pinto greens and they loved it?

Cheers,

See

Hi See,
Did you ever decide on the pinto peanuts? My thought would be to plant a little bit and find out if the geese will eat them. If they do, you can plant more... if not, then you still have a good legume in your food forest.

Matt McSpadden wrote:Hi See,
Did you ever decide on the pinto peanuts? My thought would be to plant a little bit and find out if the geese will eat them. If they do, you can plant more... if not, then you still have a good legume in your food forest.

Hi Matt,

there is absolute no answer found but still I reckon we go for it, as many Thais using pinto peanuts for chickens.
Discovery Garden Pattaya feeds his Geese with Banana leaves and they love them, so I am pretty sure they will love the peanut leaves as well.

By a seeding price of 200 USD for 1000 sqm (10700 sqft) I will start with small patches and if they are accepted by geese the amount of pinto peanuts will be increased.