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Nice! I’m experimenting with similar things. Plan on brewing some different compost teas to try this year. Curious though about how you are treating your seeds. Are you making a slurry to treat them or just running a dry mix?

Couldn’t agree more. You always have to see who’s funding the research.

I urge everyone to stop using glyphosate. Gly is harmful to all soil life and our health. There are a lot new scientific papers coming out about all the damage gly is doing to our environment and ultimately human health from the blatant overuse of it for so many years. I can go into further...

I’m not sure where you guys are getting your birds at but I was looking at McMurrays Hatchery. Has anyone raised either the Murray big red or ginger broiler? They say they’re excellent foragers, which would be nice to supplement the feed a little, and they take 12 weeks till processing.

I luckily don’t have to worry about bobcats just a lot of foxes and raccoons around. Roughly how many pounds of feed are you guys feeding per bird, start to finish? I’ve heard around 10 lbs per bird.

I appreciate the posts guys. I am planning on having a small food plot for the chickens as well and harvesting the seeds. Also will be getting some egg layers but probably will do the deep mulch system with them and have them fenced in.

Going to be raising some broilers, Cornish cross most likely, this spring/summer in a chicken tractor, that I still need to build. Planning on moving daily on “pasture.” Wondering if anyone is doing this on here and willing to offer any advice? Have you had any predation problems from diggers...

Just some thoughts but Canada thistles thrive in disturbed areas and an application of herbicide or tillage creates a serious disturbance to the land which promotes the growth of even more thistles to try to rebalance the altered soil. Most of our soils are very bacterial dominant from all our...

Sparrows, bluejays, common grackles, and starlings I believe are some of the more top predators. There are others that eat them too along with pheasants and turkeys.

White sweet clover is a biennial so it may come back this year and flower depending on how bad it was browsed. I’m going to try some phacelia in a mix this summer, I’ve heard good things about it but I’ve also heard it’s hard to grow in the zone I’m located at. Also will be doing some flax and...

I would put up bird houses. I know there are several species that eat them. Also, there is a parasitoid wasp that lays it eggs on the grubs and when they hatch they feed on it. Diversity is key.

I would not recommend that. A lot of the fishing worms are invasive and some can do a lot of damage very quick. Using no till or minimum till and providing diverse crop rotations with a lot of plant exudates and microbes, worms will come and multiple fast.

I think a lot depends on what kind of bugs you are interested in. If you provide the right host plants and prey for a lot of the beneficial predator and parasitoids they will come and greatly help reduce the pest insects within a certain area. As long as you aren’t using biocides or at least...

For the guys growing cold hardy cherry trees, what’s some good varieties to grow? Any that you can pick and eat or are they more for baking/jam?

Thanks Jack, it sounds like they may not be worth the hassle