MarylandFutureFarmGuy
Power Conserver
I thought of different versions of this, and I think I found the right one. It's an intriguing concept. BTW, this is my first post 
Zone 7 (or 6, depending which website you ask)
so you have an sunny, well placed acre. The acre is subdivided into 4 equal parts, with an optional pond in the middle if you would like to keep ducks and geese. you rotate every year what was in each subdivision. Somewhere around the middle, there is a water sprout connection, or something along those lines...Surrounding the acre is more permanent fencing to keep unwanted large pests as well as predators away.
SO:
1) All your birds. Chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quail, guinea's, whatever you would like to keep.
2) recovered field land. Essentially, an area given a year to recover all the grasses and whatnot that birds eat. After a while, it will also probably accumulate bugs too.
3) Garden. All your vegetables. I thought for more of the perennial herbs and vegetables (*cough* asparagus *cough*), one could build movable raised beds...essentially, 1-2 feet tall wooden boxes on wheels that are filled with dirt. Heck, If you have the time and money, you could probably grow all your veggies this way (extreme container gardening?!) Although I'm sure the vast majority of us will do it in the good ol' fashion dirt.
4) Grain. This is your Wheat, Corn, Oats, Barley, whatever you want (provided you plant in spring)
So you see, the birds eat the grass the following year and leave manure. the manure I feel probably wouldn't be properly rotted to be able to plant something like Carrots in mid-march, so instead, right after comes all the grain, which I imagine wouldn't be as picky and could be planted later in the year, like late April or May. The grain may also function as somewhat a cover crop, as following the grain is the veggie garden, which I could imagine could easily use all the straw from the leftover wheat as a mulch. following the veggie garden is a field again, which I imagine could also be supplemented by excess grain seeds. Now at first I was thinking the grain would take away nutrients from the more essential veggie garden, but I imagine it would be miniscule, and besides, it's probably better than growing the same things in the EXACT same place. Any excess animal manure would probably go and supplement other subdivisions. Also, a major purpose is keeping bugs at bay. I currently have raised beds in my backyard, and let me tell you, after a couple years of planting the same things within 15 feet of eachother, the bugs have decoded the lock and are eating even more of my veggies
What do you think? Have you thought of something better?
Zone 7 (or 6, depending which website you ask)so you have an sunny, well placed acre. The acre is subdivided into 4 equal parts, with an optional pond in the middle if you would like to keep ducks and geese. you rotate every year what was in each subdivision. Somewhere around the middle, there is a water sprout connection, or something along those lines...Surrounding the acre is more permanent fencing to keep unwanted large pests as well as predators away.
SO:
1) All your birds. Chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quail, guinea's, whatever you would like to keep.
2) recovered field land. Essentially, an area given a year to recover all the grasses and whatnot that birds eat. After a while, it will also probably accumulate bugs too.
3) Garden. All your vegetables. I thought for more of the perennial herbs and vegetables (*cough* asparagus *cough*), one could build movable raised beds...essentially, 1-2 feet tall wooden boxes on wheels that are filled with dirt. Heck, If you have the time and money, you could probably grow all your veggies this way (extreme container gardening?!) Although I'm sure the vast majority of us will do it in the good ol' fashion dirt.
4) Grain. This is your Wheat, Corn, Oats, Barley, whatever you want (provided you plant in spring)
So you see, the birds eat the grass the following year and leave manure. the manure I feel probably wouldn't be properly rotted to be able to plant something like Carrots in mid-march, so instead, right after comes all the grain, which I imagine wouldn't be as picky and could be planted later in the year, like late April or May. The grain may also function as somewhat a cover crop, as following the grain is the veggie garden, which I could imagine could easily use all the straw from the leftover wheat as a mulch. following the veggie garden is a field again, which I imagine could also be supplemented by excess grain seeds. Now at first I was thinking the grain would take away nutrients from the more essential veggie garden, but I imagine it would be miniscule, and besides, it's probably better than growing the same things in the EXACT same place. Any excess animal manure would probably go and supplement other subdivisions. Also, a major purpose is keeping bugs at bay. I currently have raised beds in my backyard, and let me tell you, after a couple years of planting the same things within 15 feet of eachother, the bugs have decoded the lock and are eating even more of my veggies
What do you think? Have you thought of something better?
