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All flesh is grass : the pleasures and promises of pasture farming /
Annotation In All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, Gene Logsdon explains that well-managed pastures are nutritious and palatable - virtual salads for livestock. Leafy pastures also hold the soil, increase biodiversity, and create lovely landscapes. Grass farming may be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pasture farming, the newest and oldest agriculture
- How I came to pasture farming
- Some commercial grass farms
- A pasture garden
- Good fences still make good neighbors
- Water in every paddock
- Pasturing horses, mules, and donkeys
- Sheep on pasture
- Milk and beef from pasture cows
- The rising farm interest in goats
- Root, hog, or die
- Chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys love to graze
- Bluegrass, ryegrass, and white clover
- Alfalfa, red clover, and ladino clover
- Legumes of regional importance
- Other noteworthy pasture grasses
- Grains for grazing
- Other plants with pasture potential
- Weeds : the good, the bad, and the beautiful
- Making hay and silage
- Trees in the pasture
- A walk on the wild side.