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Lots and Lots of Wood Chips! Posted: 11 Jun 2014 12:10 PM PDT
Dear Readers;
I think that it was about three weeks back that our friend Andrey turned us on to ..The Back To Eden Garden Youtube video. We watched the two hour video about this Vietnam vet who had been gardening using wood chips as mulch for thirty odd years! This guy...Paul had damaged nerves in his legs due to "Agent Orange" and walked around with a terrible limp. He used his rake as a cane and that same rake is basically all he used to work his very large garden and orchard. Here's the video and it is well worth watching in my opinion. (Editor; no video was attached!)
I think that it was about three weeks back that our friend Andrey turned us on to ..The Back To Eden Garden Youtube video. We watched the two hour video about this Vietnam vet who had been gardening using wood chips as mulch for thirty odd years! This guy...Paul had damaged nerves in his legs due to "Agent Orange" and walked around with a terrible limp. He used his rake as a cane and that same rake is basically all he used to work his very large garden and orchard. Here's the video and it is well worth watching in my opinion. (Editor; no video was attached!)
We were so convinced by this method of gardening that we ordered thirty-five tons of wood chips!
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| Anyone want to help haul wood chips? |
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| Starting to cover the front flower garden. |
We will keep you all updated on our latest Govindas' Farm experiment.
Until next time.
Hare Krsna.
Lal
Posted: 09 Jun 2014 05:59 AM PDT
Dear Readers;We like to mob graze our herd of cows,alpacas and bird. What we've been finding after a one year break due to the bull, Pita,being a complete tool about keeping all humans out of his domain...is that they lost the comfort level that they had developed when we were moving them. I know that is completely normal for a bull but it did freak us out and mess with the process of mob grazing. We also found that not mob grazing was not good for us humans because we kind of lost contact with the herd. When we go and move the herd two to three times a day...we get to chat with them...check them out to see if they are healthy...check their poop to make sure that it is healthy...as the saying goes...healthy poop...healthy animal. Also when the herd is moved they are happy....they have something to look forward to and they all get excited when they see us coming. When we are getting the fence ready to move them to a new lane..the entire herd moos at us....Pita always screams in desperation...and all the others are sounding like..."Alright already...come on...come on...get going...are you done yet?...now?...done? Huh?......Come on ..we haven't eaten in like five minutes!"
Once they are moved they happily graze on red clover,dandelions,sheeps sorrel,daisies and a variety of other grasses and wild flowers.
Until next time.
Hare Krsna
Lal
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| They are grazing under the line but are respectful of it. |
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| The lane that the herd has finished grazing and won't return to for one full year. |
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| Heads down and happy:) |
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