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| The upper barn, a simple stamping shed, will be rehabbed into a goat barn. |
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| There were hundreds of pounds of fir branches and debris on the roof. The branches made five wheelbarrow loads of firewood, and the sweepings made about as much compost. |
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| An industrial grade push broom can be one of your best friends. |
Oooo, I love fir/pine needles in compost. Not many available locally. I also love our push broom. It's held together with baling wire and duct tape these days but it still works!
ReplyDeleteDuct tape GOOD. Baling wire GOOD. ;)We try to concentrate most of the fir and pine on the blueberries, raspberries and such. The grass clippings and straw more on the veg beds, in layers. 90% of the composting is sheet composting, where the bottom layer of the mulch is the composting layer.
ReplyDeletegoats! When? Which?
ReplyDeleteFalse alarm, sort of. The place next door being vacant and for sale, I've fenced the boundary and am updating the barn so that the "goat pasture" will be a fait accompli when the new people come. Beloved doesn't want to start milking until she retires -- five years off. But there have been bummer lambs raised here in the past -- one or two of those might show up.
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