[permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient run-off

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Turn Your Pig Poo into food try Yabbies,...Try Aquaponics

Tezza
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From: <steve_burns at wvi.org>
To: "permaculture-oceania" <permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au>
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Subject: RE: [permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient run-off


> So, to rephrase the question - what plants need a lot of nutrient and will
> be able to turn it all into productive growth...?
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> one that comes to mind is artichokes - they love a heap of feed, and have
> the additional benefit of being OK to have in one location for a long
> while, plus they create an imposing barrier if you plant them right on the
> edge of the property..
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> maybe you could have a slight rise along the downslope boundary, with a
> depression in front of it to trap flow-off so that water soaks in and
feeds
> whatever's growing; another heavy feeder would be rhubarb, and perhaps you
> could plant a row of comfrey and borage in there as well - borage for
> flowers and bee fodder, comfrey to harvest for liquid compost so that you
> recycle the nutrients back up slope into the garden......
>
> so, yes, the pigs might create havoc unless you put an electric fence
along
> the area where you had your plantings... if it's a large area, perhaps you
> don't need to have plantings all the way along your downslope side - you
> could use a swale to gather water and nutrients and direct them to a
> planted area (as long as the volume of water during peak flow didn't drown
> everything)
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> another approach would be to plant fodder trees that would soak up the
> nutrient and turn it into acorns, millable timber, etc....
>
> so many options!  ;)
>
> Steve
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> 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!
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> Cheers all,
>
> Kerry Dawborn
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>             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.
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>             Any thoughts and suggestions would be most welcome…
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