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So many people have asked us what to plant for their animals that we have done some research and come up with the following: Sugar Beets; Mangels; Critter Crop Mix; Forage Kale; Fodder Radish; Millet etc...
Forage crops are selected for fast growth, high nutrition, and availability in quantity. They will not be as uniform or as tender (or bolt-resistant) as named varieties selected for garden use. Animals don't care if the kale is tough, but they do care for (and seed out) the highest levels of nutrients. We hope you enjoy these new selections, and let us know how your critters like them.
All of the items in our Grain section can be harvested and ged to animals, or used for grazing (See caution under sorghum). All of the items in the "Compost Crops" section are used for grazing, hay, or fodder too.
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| MCH-6285
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| Chicken Lettuce (Rabbit, too!) |
42-56 days. A mix of lettuces from Gathering Together Farm. Plant by broadcasting spring through fall. Succession sow plots a week apart to maintain a supply of fresh greens, and allow each plot to grow for 6-8 weeks to make the most biomass. Chickens love to be thrown heads of lettuce for their daily greens, and the more bugs, the better. One packet plants 100 sq ft. |
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| VBE-2485
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| Beet, Sugar |
| 110 days. Many customers have asked about the feasibility of getting non-GMO sugar beet seed. Here they are! We are pleased to make this self-sufficiency crop available. Large 3 lb white or pale yellow beets with a sweet flavor. Delicious shredded and mixed with other vegetables. Traditionally used to make molasses (for sweetener on its own or as the raw material for sugar). 100 seeds. C $2.75 |
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| VGR-3730
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| Purslane Greens, Salad |
| Name: Purslane
Latin: Portulaca oleracea
Culture: HHA/Ht 2’/Spac 12 /
Descr: An erect growing perenial to 18 in. in height. Leaves resemble the common garden weed in taste and shape but are larger. Easy to pick. Loves heat. Does well in any garden soil. Needs moisture to germinate, but once established can tolerate severe drought. Fleshy stems and leaves good raw or cooked. Ayurvedic herb. 200 seeds.
Days: 50
Seeds: 200
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| VGR-3703
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| Chickweed, Stellaria, organic |
Stellaria media
This is a nice juicy, mild-flavored strain that endures some cold and flowers early to draw beneficial insects to the garden to eat those spring aphids. Many herbal and culinary uses. Can be clipped every few days (until flowering) and used just like sprouts or mild lettuce, in tacos, salads, garnish. Good nurse crop for spring seedlings, or permanent part of a beneficialattracting,low maintenance hedgerow 40 seeds. |
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| MKA-6462
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| Forage Kale |
75-90 days. 10-18 inches tall. Almost any animal that eats any kind of leafy food loves kale. Poultry love it, and the yolks get nice and golden from the vitamin A. Turkeys, goats, rabbits, cows, ducks and pretty much anything but cats will eat kale and thrive - |
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| GMI-7290
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| Millet, Japanese |
Echinochloa frumentacea
Highly productive and early. Very leafy with many grain-bearing tillers. Height is 3-6’. Tolerates waterlogged soils very well. Excellent biomass--almost as much as corn. Will re-grow after cutting, and dries faster than Sudan grass. Difficult to thresh and clean. A close relative has been exploited commercially for forage under the name “Billion Dollar Grass.”
Photo:
Wikipedia-Honeplus-GNU Free Documentation License |
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| GBA-7220
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| Barley, Regular, Organic |
Hordeum vulgare
We get requests for this from home brewers and from people who just want barley straw for killing algae in ponds. One pound bag, plants about 1,000 square feet. Emmer (the office cat) would like us to remind you that this makes good cat grass, grown in a little pot indoors.
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