richard miller

Thanks for the reply.  Good idea to contact the library,  

Along those lines, that book was just the sort of publication a university press might publish.  I'll start there.

in the deeps of time, at least for me, I ran across a book in the OSU ag library that was about a Fukuoka style farming method tailored to the Southeastern states.

If memory serves, it involved  rotations including Lespedeza and animal grazing but thats all i can recall. Subsequent online searches using general keywords have been fruitless.  

Does this ring a bell for anyone?  The book was published before 1980 or thereabouts.

I have various projects pending that involve setting posts.  Our farm has a surplus of second growth yellow pine, nice and straight.

Looking for the best option for treating the wood.  We live in the humid southeast so softwood posts won't last long without a preservative.  I know all the standard DIY methods but we want something less toxic

We are considering expanding our donkey pasture to an area that has quite a lot of elderberry bushes.  Elderberry (sambucus) shows up on several lists online as being toxic for donkeys.

The pasture in question has plenty of grass, blackberries, sweet gum and seedling persimmon trees so there is plenty to eat.  My experience with other animals is that they don't eat toxic plants unless there is nothing else. But given the donkeys browsing habits, I'd like to ask the group what their experience has been.  

Cutting really won't help as elderberry resprouts  vigorously resulting in new tender growth, and herbicides are out of the question for us.  Elderberry provide food for fruit eating birds and nectar for many pollinators as well.

Has any body had a donkey sickened by elderberry leaves/bark? Will they leave it alone if there is plenty of other food?