[permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient runnoff

[kdawborn]

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions on pig fodder and forage and general
feeding ideas. Looking forward to more thoughts on this too! No replies yet
on dealing with nutrient runoff - which is a big thing we need to deal with.
To remind you of the question it is included again below!

 

Cheers all,



Kerry Dawborn

 


3)       Nutrient runoff from paddocks into creek: we are concerned about
the nutrient load going into our creek from animal manure. It seems likely
that the most sensible way to view this is that really, the nutrients are
something we want to keep and use rather than allow to pollute the creek, so
perhaps the thing to do is grow more stuff that can soak it up. Any
suggestions re useful fodder (especially) or human food plants or other
plants, and ways to lay things out in order to best catch the runoff? As I
write I'm thinking swale-type arrangements with appropriate plantings could
work, but we are talking paddocks with pigs so for stock management and
other reasons, am not sure whether this might create problems.


Any thoughts and suggestions would be most welcome.






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