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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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The battle may be long if you fight this. Perhaps the solution is to turn gunk into gold. The nutrients that are coming onto your property are valuable, even if they've got antibiotics and things in them. If you set up a swale and dike to catch and control the wash you could divert it into carbon to compost it.
ReplyDeleteYes, you want them to stop sending it your way, but that could take years. Meanwhile you might be able to make this into a benefit somehow.
If this doesn't work then I would personally take to putting up a dike across the whole back side to control the flow.
Good luck.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
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