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Planning spaces: working animals into a sustainable permaculture plan

Posted on March 21, 2012 by dlhitzeman

I’ve learned a lot about utilizing the ground for food production over the past few years, and one of the things I have learned is that there is no space, whether it is a garden, a tilled field, or a pasture, that should ever be left for a single use. Nature multitasks everything, and the [...] Continue reading →

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Good rules for rounding up wayward animals

Posted on February 1, 2012 by dlhitzeman

If you grow livestock, it is almost inevitable that eventually some of them will get out of the place you keep them. This problem could result from a poorly latched gate or from an animal’s desire to see if the grass is really greener on the other side of that fence. Either way, at that [...] Continue reading →

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Good rules for rounding up wayward animals

Posted on February 1, 2012 by dlhitzeman

If you grow livestock, it is almost inevitable that eventually some of them will get out of the place you keep them. This problem could result from a poorly latched gate or from an animal’s desire to see if the grass is really greener on the other side of that fence. Either way, at that [...] Continue reading →

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It’s all fun and games until the wheel falls off

Posted on January 19, 2011 by dlhitzeman

Ok, maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but it’s hard to feed cattle when the only tractor we have that can move bales develops a flat tire–probably a broken bead due to the unforgiving frozen terrain of the barnyard. Of course, that whole event started because our bale wagon has been frozen to the ground [...] Continue reading →

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