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Movable fencing for home-scale chicken paddocks
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Do you use electric netting to graze chickens? Any tips or suggestions on styles or brands?I have various forest garden patches at home and plan to rotate chickens in between them. I may come back…Continue
Pasture-in-the-woods forestry consulting in PA
Started this discussion. Last reply by Robbie Coville Jun 23. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hello folks. Are there any consultants here who advise and plan forestry thinning for silvopasture in PA? Or can you point me in the direction of anyone who provides those services in PA? Thank you!Continue
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Movable fencing for home-scale chicken paddocks
Do you use electric netting to graze chickens? Any tips or suggestions on styles or brands?I have various forest garden patches at home and plan to rotate chickens in between them. I may come back with questions on grazing plans, as some areas I'd want to rotate and let the pasture reset, whereas other areas I'd want the chickens to wipe out the lawn and prep it for meadow seed mixes. In any case, I want to have a few paddocks setup at once and move the fencing around.This is for a small,…See More
"Great to see! A quick response from a Mid-Atlantic perspective: many folks in NY and PA are growing trees this way successfully. I have 2x1' air prune beds made from scrap wood that have lasted years (surprisingly), that size makes them more…"
"Zooming in on your specific situation/second question: a practical Associates degree, with in-field experience, and the ability to speak English and Spanish fluently seems like a great background for job applications. From there I’d consider…"
"Thanks for this good question Scott. It took me a while to find work focused on agroforestry, and I would have agreed with your post completely a few years ago, but thankfully there is some progress. Here’s some big picture thoughts specific…"
"Thanks Doug. It doesn't sound like the Trees for Graziers team does much pasture-in-woods work, they're more focused on trees-in-pasture. That's part of what motivated me to ask who else might be doing this kind of work in PA!"
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Pasture-in-the-woods forestry consulting in PA
Hello folks. Are there any consultants here who advise and plan forestry thinning for silvopasture in PA? Or can you point me in the direction of anyone who provides those services in PA? Thank you!See More
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Methods For Growing Lots Of Trees In A Small Footprint For Cost-Effective Silvopasture Establishment
Started by Casey Pfeifer. Last reply by Scott O'Bar Sep 7. 17 Replies 1 Like
I thought I'd share my current methods using air pruning beds to grow various livestock fodder trees for silvopasture establishment in hopes that some other folks in this network are doing the…Continue
Tags: propagation, silvopasture, soil, mix, techniques
What Went Wrong With My Soil Analysis?
Started by Scott O'Bar Sep 2. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I realize this is a longshot to post this here, but perhaps someone could forward this to an agronomist or soil scientist colleague of theirs to get an answer to this.I sent the same soil samples to…Continue
Searching for tree seeds
Started by Ben Harris. Last reply by L kas Sep 1. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hey y'all,I'm in search of tree seeds - fruits, nuts, fodder, N fixers, etc. Do you have favorite seed/nut sources or cultivars? I'm looking for production and vigor. Disease resistance will reveal…Continue
Virtual Fence
Started by Scott O'Bar Aug 28. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I've been hearing a lot about virtual fencing lately on podcasts I'm subscribed to. It sounds like a real game changer especially for a silvopasture context. Are any of you using virtual fencing?I'm…Continue
Tags: Fencing
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