Life just doesn’t seem complete without a garden. The idea of growing, harvesting and eating something you’ve grown yourself is how I wish our society could be again — agrarian.
I’m going to be making a horned owl scarecrow for the garden this year ‘cause most critters are afraid of the owl predator. It’s what the Amish and Mennonites use and they know their gardening!
Our next step is to find a local farmer so we can buy and have him raise a calf our family can share at butchering time.
I’m going to be making a horned owl scarecrow for the garden this year ‘cause most critters are afraid of the owl predator. It’s what the Amish and Mennonites use and they know their gardening!
Our next step is to find a local farmer so we can buy and have him raise a calf our family can share at butchering time.<<<
You are lucky, that you have such fine teachers for gardening.
On the calf, if you make a deal, get it in writing, right down to who will pay for hauling it to the butcher shop.
Make sure you know who you are dealing with.
Can’t you have one at your place, if you got one a month or so old, then it would not be that hard to raise and you would have your own manure for the garden.
Hay and grain and lots of water, of course a pasture, if you have it, but we don’t have pasture for the calves in Arizona.
Good alfalfa hay.
Never mind all the medicines and chemicals, if they are not sick.
Does a neighbor have a big pasture? maybe a hind quarter would pay the rent on it for a year.
You could when I was active, raise 6 goats for the same cost as one mild cow, we sold our cow and went with the goats, but then I have not eaten the meat, so have no opinion on its taste, some say it is like deer.
I had all the pork and beef that I needed, in the freezer, so did not eat my goats.