Amen! That is how we think and we made an entire show on how we did it..lol. I lived in the city all my life, had no idea what I was doing and I wouldnt change back if I could get my cubicle back.
Viva homesteaders!
Rob Roath
Homesteadnetwork.com
brad4d2000 <brad4d2000@hughes.net> wrote:
My idea of homesteading is living well (not high) in accord with nature and producing most of our needs here at home with minimum inputs and maximum sustainable yields. Planning is important in that it saves time and money. Human diet requires fruit, vegetables, protein, oil and water. The least portable of these is the fruit orchard. We share the habitat with white tailed deer and therefore fenced them out of a sunny grassy area and planted dwarf fruit trees. To make orchard management cheaper and easier I added chickens. We had a garden below the house and the rain barrels but it did not get enough sun and required annual feeding. We therefore are moving the garden and compost areas to the orchard. The first step was to make a 4' X 32' compost bed on the southern perimeter fence and fill it 3' deep with grass clippings, chopped leaves, wood ashes from the cook stove, kitchen and garden scraps and most important, chickens. Six months later we added another bed next to the original
and gated the chickens out of the old compost which had then decayed enough, been weeded enough, been fertilized enough to plant tomatoes which produced our best ever harvest. Instead of buying herbicide, insecticide and fertilizer we buy chicken feed to supplement what they can find and let them do almost all of the work. Every six months we add another bed always alternating garden and compost. Eventually the entire orchard area will be 4' beds with the exception of the coop and trees. Half will be compost and chickens and the remainder will be garden beds. The shape of the beds is so that insects can not get more than 2' away from a bug eating monster, aka chicken.
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