Guest guest Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 >Bethanne-- >Depending on where you are in southern VT, Shelburne >MA may be closer than wherever you're getting your raw >milk. I'd look at a map and see. I can pass on the >farm's phone # if MA ends up a better option. > >Lierre > I am a few hours from the MA border (takes me an hour and a half just to get as far as Bennington Vermont) . I am in Poultney which is between Rutland and Manchester. I am right next to the NY border.The irony is that I am surrounded by what I call the herbicide farmers. They destroy the land with their chemicals and grow corn and take up the grass to put their cows in the mud with these feed things. Poor cows. They look so frail. Will be a couple of years before i am ready to build a small barn and have a cow and a goat and some chickens of my own so in the meantime need to find a good resource for milk. -- Warm Regards, Bethanne Elion Volhard Nutrition List Owner Poultney, Vermont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 Bethanne, Just a thought, but if you find that there are others in your area that are interested getting real milk, you might be able to expedite your plans to get your own livestock by entering into milk-share type program with them. A single cow these days generally produces a lot of milk when she's lactating, but then there's a lot of time when she's not lactating too. Providing consistent milk for yourself *might* actually be easier if you have multiple cows in rotating lactation and some people to share the excess milk as well as the setup costs with. I'm really hyper about the idea of milk-share programs right now, so I might just be overzealous... Just brainstorming... Minneapolis (farm boy in exile :-) ) -----Original Message----- From: Bethanne Elion [mailto:knitnewf@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:42 AM Subject: Re: raw milk and diapers >Bethanne-- >Depending on where you are in southern VT, Shelburne >MA may be closer than wherever you're getting your raw >milk. I'd look at a map and see. I can pass on the >farm's phone # if MA ends up a better option. > >Lierre > I am a few hours from the MA border (takes me an hour and a half just to get as far as Bennington Vermont) . I am in Poultney which is between Rutland and Manchester. I am right next to the NY border.The irony is that I am surrounded by what I call the herbicide farmers. They destroy the land with their chemicals and grow corn and take up the grass to put their cows in the mud with these feed things. Poor cows. They look so frail. Will be a couple of years before i am ready to build a small barn and have a cow and a goat and some chickens of my own so in the meantime need to find a good resource for milk. -- Warm Regards, Bethanne Elion Volhard Nutrition List Owner Poultney, Vermont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 >Bethanne, > >Just a thought, but if you find that there are others in your area that are >interested getting real milk, you might be able to expedite your plans to >get your own livestock by entering into milk-share type program with them. >A single cow these days generally produces a lot of milk when she's >lactating, but then there's a lot of time when she's not lactating too. >Providing consistent milk for yourself *might* actually be easier if you >have multiple cows in rotating lactation and some people to share the excess >milk as well as the setup costs with. > >I'm really hyper about the idea of milk-share programs right now, so I might >just be overzealous... Hello , Thank-you for your brain storming. I love thinking minds! There is more involved than just having cows for me. I feel that my soil needs to be upgraded and I need to have some testing done to be sure I am not getting any run off from the two farms - one next door and one down the way. I shouldn't be by how the water flows but i have learned never to assume anything. As I am sitting here in my upstairs loft room i am watching one of these farmers break the law by putting out that liquid manure onto one of the fields. Here in Vermont they are not allowed to do that until the Spring run off. I have 10.1 acres here and some of it was used to grow corn for 15 or so years. That field needs to be brought back to life. This may sound odd but somehow I feel like I was given this land to do just that. Breathe life back into it. It is a very pretty piece of land and some is doing very well. -- Warm Regards, Bethanne Elion Volhard Nutrition List Owner Poultney, Vermont http://www.barkingbear.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 One more thought then... Seeding a good mixture of legumes and native grasses and putting a couple of weaned calves and kids out to graze it is a very good first step toward restoring most land... If it's really depleted of minerals, it will need additional help. The amount of organic material and fixed nitrogen in the topsoil is going to be critical no matter what though, and that should be able to be addressed with the legume grass mixture...especially with a couple of cute critters out there encouraging it to keep growing by chewing it up, breaking it down and dropping it back onto the soil. Supplement their minerals by offering them plenty of kelp meal and you might even succeed in putting some minerals back into the soil as you go too... All right, I'll go switch to decaf for awhile now... Minneapolis -----Original Message----- From: Bethanne Elion [mailto:knitnewf@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:08 AM Subject: RE: raw milk and diapers >Bethanne, > >Just a thought, but if you find that there are others in your area that are >interested getting real milk, you might be able to expedite your plans to >get your own livestock by entering into milk-share type program with them. >A single cow these days generally produces a lot of milk when she's >lactating, but then there's a lot of time when she's not lactating too. >Providing consistent milk for yourself *might* actually be easier if you >have multiple cows in rotating lactation and some people to share the excess >milk as well as the setup costs with. > >I'm really hyper about the idea of milk-share programs right now, so I might >just be overzealous... Hello , Thank-you for your brain storming. I love thinking minds! There is more involved than just having cows for me. I feel that my soil needs to be upgraded and I need to have some testing done to be sure I am not getting any run off from the two farms - one next door and one down the way. I shouldn't be by how the water flows but i have learned never to assume anything. As I am sitting here in my upstairs loft room i am watching one of these farmers break the law by putting out that liquid manure onto one of the fields. Here in Vermont they are not allowed to do that until the Spring run off. I have 10.1 acres here and some of it was used to grow corn for 15 or so years. That field needs to be brought back to life. This may sound odd but somehow I feel like I was given this land to do just that. Breathe life back into it. It is a very pretty piece of land and some is doing very well. -- Warm Regards, Bethanne Elion Volhard Nutrition List Owner Poultney, Vermont http://www.barkingbear.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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