Tuesday, January 19, 2010
What can you do?
Right now I am just looking for creative suggestions! If you have any links that would be very helpful too. Later I may need people to volunteer time, or donate unwanted materials. Right now I am thinking of building a very large half circle wall up to the line or higher, filling it with rocks and soil and then planting it with shrubs that would help filter. If you know of any plants that help do this please let me know! Thanks!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Some Pictures
My son counted about 48 cows in an area less than two acres. In the picture on the right you can clearly see the fence which is the property line and the trash that is coming down into my property.
I am looking for creative solutions to this problem. If you have any to offer please post a comment. The purpose of this blog is to get feedback from other farmers or home owners, and eventually to show how this problem was fixed! Thanks for reading!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
My Pond Dilema
PLEASE NOTE if you have received an email from me it is because we have spoken in the past, most likely about farming or gardening. I welcome suggestions from anyone who thinks that they can help. The email was NOT spam. Thank you!
I have started this blog to try to gather support and help to save our farm pond. We have lived on our 3 acre farm for just over three years now. We have an orchard, grapevines, nut trees, gardens and a very large pond which is being destroyed by farm runoff from the property behind us. There is a large number of cows kept in a very small area. Every time it rains all the waste comes directly into out pond. Soil erosion had gotten terrible over the years and the soil has now washed away below the fence line. The owners have filled it with trash and now all of that has come down into our property too. The trash is a threat to my ducks and geese, who will try to eat it if it is floating in the pond. The pond smells horrible all summer long, and is covered in a thick layer of duckweed.
I have tried to resolve this problem on my own, with no success. I am hoping that my friends and people in the community of Berea will help me find a solution to this problem. I will start an email list, with updates and I hope to meet at our farm and have a brainstorming session in the early spring, and hopefully fix at least some of the issue by early summer. If you can help in any way please email me at tuckersturkeyfarm@gmail.com or farmgirlshelley@yahoo.com
Pictures will be posted soon.
Thanks!
I have started this blog to try to gather support and help to save our farm pond. We have lived on our 3 acre farm for just over three years now. We have an orchard, grapevines, nut trees, gardens and a very large pond which is being destroyed by farm runoff from the property behind us. There is a large number of cows kept in a very small area. Every time it rains all the waste comes directly into out pond. Soil erosion had gotten terrible over the years and the soil has now washed away below the fence line. The owners have filled it with trash and now all of that has come down into our property too. The trash is a threat to my ducks and geese, who will try to eat it if it is floating in the pond. The pond smells horrible all summer long, and is covered in a thick layer of duckweed.
I have tried to resolve this problem on my own, with no success. I am hoping that my friends and people in the community of Berea will help me find a solution to this problem. I will start an email list, with updates and I hope to meet at our farm and have a brainstorming session in the early spring, and hopefully fix at least some of the issue by early summer. If you can help in any way please email me at tuckersturkeyfarm@gmail.com or farmgirlshelley@yahoo.com
Pictures will be posted soon.
Thanks!
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