Book Review - Holy Shit by Gene Logsdon

[time_on_fire]

I finished the reading and "reviewing" Comeback Farms and processed some useful information.

Now I am reading Holy Shit and I'm about 1/2 through it. ETA - finished the book, well, sorta. I started skipping points when I was disagreeing too much with what he said, or the way he said it.

So far, the most new-to-me concept is the manure pack.  This

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[sahlah]

That provides quite the visual - standing in ones poo... :)

[moonflowerz]

I went back and read your review. Love the highly appropriate use of your new word demerde. Heh. Made me smile

[time_on_fire]

I'm glad that the oak leaves work well - I have been wanting to try it, because we get too many leaves and they prevent the grass growing. Who doesn't love free bedding!

Yesterday I finally bought my hens two bowls that attach on the side of the wire of the coop. Now, I have a water dish that they can't dump over, and an appropriately sized food dish. Happy chicken times! Such a small change makes such a big difference.

As for cows and horses, cows don't have upper teeth, so they pull the grass - I think they only eat the tops? Horse have teeth and will bite off grass super close to the ground if they feel they have too. I saw a good post on that somewhere... I'll have to dig it up.

[eats_veggies]

I have this book on my "want to read". I've been reading the Humanure Handbook I got on a .pdf file - pretty interesting information (especially the historical stuff).

[time_on_fire]

Honestly, I skipped a lot of this book.

The Humanure Handbook was pretty interesting - I'm just not sure it would go over well in my household.

One book I think you would really like is Joel Salatin's "You Can Farm." Tons of advice and things to think about when starting a farm-to-market business. You might have already read it.

I wanted to do more book reviews, but I'm having to read these books so fast that I haven't had the time.