Comments on Simon's review of Organic Lowfat Yogurts
Organic Lowfat Yogurts
Description: Low-fat yogurt in a wide variety of flavors.
Why Struse farms need to plant trees
I have wanted to talk to the Strauss family about the planting of crop trees in a perm culture fashion which in on contour swale fashion. Books to read regarding this is Water for every farm An Australian mining engineer who turned farmer built a system of earth dams and swales at nick points to distribute water over a large area for irrigation purposes, Tree crops a permanent agriculture, this is about research done at the turn of the 1930 - 1940 just after the dust bowl period with the help of the US agriculture department, The trees I would recommend are Carob, when cows are fed or self feed on carob they give a 20 to 25% increase milk fat content put on weight at 10 - 15% faster rate than cows fed on hay, That the trees are drought tolerant and grow well in your district, there are samples growing in the town just up from San Rafel. The Carob is a crop with its own value The fruiting season is in the late summer to early fall when the grass crop has finished, and is at its lowest nutrient content. with careful management the cows can self feed from the trees, initial set up will include some fencing which can be electric, to prevent the cows form stripping early growth, the trees in about 3 - 5 years will begin to crop at 20 -30 pounds, at 15 to 20 about 1 - 2 tons per tree, You can create green credits as you are planting a carbon crop, the trees are leguminous which means that they are nitrogen fixers, adding to the fertility of your soil. the other thing to consider is planting bamboo about your sludge pond and putting down wood chip swales in the down stream section this you can seed with mushrooms it will do a great deal to reduce the E-coli and sediment build up in Tomalis bay making you better neighbors to the oyster farmers, and better stewards of the land I used to live just down hill of you with David on the landing, his spring is on your land, To improve the spring flow the swales hold water on the land and allow it to percolate into the aquifers, keeping your grass green longer,
Simon's keywords: tree crops sustainalble carbon sequesting income production
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