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this is the longest that it's been since i began a new Cloth.   I feel like a lover,  gone long,  not knowing how  to approach.  All the baskets,  waiting,  in their usual places.  I don't know what to do.

 


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the new plan…pellets…tomorrow at evening feed it will be a week.   i have managed to keep the secret about where this feed comes from.   All they know is that i come out sometime around 4 oclock and tinkle tinkle  the pellets clink into the bowls.  The good thing is that everyone seems to get their fair share relatively easily.  Moving between bowls takes time and Gives time

the question now is….do we do pellets for both morning and evening feed?   Skip the dry baled alfalfa altogether?   They have begun working the steep hill that rises up from the canal.  Grasses there.  They continue through the rest of the Hill forest with twigs leaves and certain green grasses,  still and always the pine needles.   Today i saw some poison oak.  So…soon,  that too.  We look at the Meadow down to the far side of A.   What can we plant there for them?  Jenny wants to figure out how to make it sustainable for both the Hill and them.

i have a regular normal plastic California Drivers License.  Today.  in the mail.  at the Post Office.  I LOVE the post office.  i was going to go to the worm farm around the corner and get bags of really great soil.  At the last minute,  i didn't.  Just came home.  I will take one more circle of season to see what we can do with what we have,  which is Goat Shit and feed scrap.    Jenny got a 50lb bag of large horse alfalfa pellets the Goats can't eat.   It's down at A.   I've read about making alfalfa tea.  I'll do that.  This week i've been working through that Wall Garden and the soil is BECOMING something.  It's not a FAST thing,  but a just going thing.  I think i want one more circle through.  See where we get to.    

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20 responses to “a friday”

  1. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I have found coffee grounds to be a wonderful addition to soil but you have to find a coffee shop willing to fill a five gallon bucket for you every day and you have to go get that bucket every day.

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  2. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Used coffee grounds. The stuff they throw away.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s a great idea but it’s not going to happen.

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  4. Deb Avatar

    I picture you leading the herd to neighboring pastures to clear their over/undergrowth. Like Heidi.

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  5. Acey Avatar

    still getting adjusted to you being in a place with so many trees…

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  6. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    If the ladies weren’t in a “delicate way” I could see you renting a goat like Deb pictured above. Alfalfa is good for soil as well as plants. I have put a few bales on my garden these past few years. For some reason I don’t remember it works to break down shredded paper faster than other straw. I used to drink alfalfa tea. Maybe I’ll try that for the plants this year.
    I have been sending healing thoughts to Alyssia. How is she doing?

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    when I helped look after a herd of goats in Victoria yeas ago they ate the blackberries on the farm which were classified as a noxious weed but are very good food for goats.

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  8. Acey Avatar

    A friend’s workplace has been ‘maintained’ by professional goats during the green seasons for over two years now. When he first told me about it – that there’d been an all-hands memo concerning the goats’ impending arrival and not to go near, take pictures of, or otherwise attempt to engage them as they were PROFESSIONALS – I was convinced it was a joke he thought I’d be gullible enough to accept as truth until he emailed a screenshot of the memo. but you didn’t hear me tell you that, right?

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  9. jude Avatar

    even cloth needs rest.
    The deer here seem to trim most everything I don’t want trimmed.

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  10. Liz A Avatar

    I look at cloth and think of paper …

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  11. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Your cloth will always be ready and waiting
    .. it is very forgiving.

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  12. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    As I once learned, “do the work that gives you peace in your heart.” The cloth will speak to you.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    always has.
    am counting on this

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…a lot about alfalfa tea on U tube…for garden
    She began physical therapy this week. We’ll see.
    She also stopped all pharma for the Lupus….

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…blackberries…there are tons of raspberries
    down in the Rooster Swamp, but it’s across the
    little road that leads out to the big road. Not sure
    how we might manage that safely, but they would
    be thrilled.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    deer are like that. Goats do not discriminate. They
    are For Everything

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