Joel Bruneski

Dalton Dycer wrote:Have you tried with a shovel? If it’s really wet a shovel would give you a better idea… before you bring in equipment. I mean unless you have equipment then digger up!

What’s the plan with it if it is ground water?.

I have an extend-a- hoe.

Water for animals and possibly a cabin.

I have a rural property that I am looking at building on. It currently has no amenities at all.
One field has two patches of bullrush grass in it. The soil here is damp even though it has been a very dry year and all around is dry. I would think this would indicate ground water?

Wondering if I should try digging down with a backhoe to see what I get.

Hay is to feed my animals. It does remove nutrients if done incorrect. But need the animal feed. At this point it's just wasted land multiplying noxious weeds.

Burning won't work here now because the brushes are green. They would have to be cut, let dry, piled to burn.
Initially the char can deplete the soil, creating a huge patch of thisles.

The disk I have is a bit light. Theoretically, the woody material should be below the sod at that point though?

I'm leaning toward mowing as well.

Thanks

I just purchased some land worth rough pastures that I would like to work up as hay fields. The pastures have lots of brush that has grown up in the past decade and I am wondering if the plow I have access to will work here. The brush is rose hips and some other short bushes.
My plan is to plow then either disc or rotortill before seeding next spring.
I have a drum mower and was thinking about mowing it first?

What do you think? I’m worried the bushes will stop the disk from cutting in.

Not sure if this is the right thread for this.

I am looking at setting up a form of Geoff Lawton's "chicken tractor on steroids". I have seen videos online regarding systems set up to collect food waste from a store (or whatever) and feeding it to the chickens then compost the remainder. I do that now on a small scale.

I would like to approach our local hospital cafeteria (I am a nurse). Does anybody have experience doing this? I am looking for a sample letter to send them as an introduction but would also like to see what others used for food collection in the way of buckets etc. What sort of agreement is typically done?

Any info or experience would be appreciated.

Thanks

No, he doesn't have access to a stall.

My daughter's horse is in with our small sheep flock. We rotational graze them all through paddocks.
The problem is the horse is getting overweight. How can we control its weight while in this system?
Is a grazing muzzle a good option?

Thanks

Hello. Not quite sure where to put this question.

I have grown barley and oats as fodder for my chickens and such, but I just got ahold of some field grass seed that was free to cleanup.

Wondering if anyone has an opinion on the nutrition content of this? Is it worth growing it either alone or as a mix?
Will be fed to chickens and sheep.

Thanks