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Straw Bale Greenhouse Building Plans
Depending on the type of plaster selected, roof overhang is often important to protect and shield the plaster from the weather. [For our building, we used about 400 straw bales with wheat-based straw, harvested about four miles from our farm.] Adding...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Starting A Straw Bale Garden: How To Plant Straw Bale Garden Beds
Straw bale garden instructions say each bale will hold two or three. After two weeks of preparing the bale, stick your hand inside the bale to determine warmth. The big box stores offer decorative straw bales during the autumn holidays, but they are small...
Ohio
Willoughby
How to Garden With Hay Bales
A garden you plant in hay will require constant weeding. It doesn't matter how deep you plant, as long as a portion of the green, leafy part of the plant extends above the straw. Hay, which farmers use as animal feed, contains more seeds.
California
Santa Monica
How to Grow Strawberries in Hay Bales
Straw bales work well because they have fewer seeds in them, which results in fewer weed problems, but Bermuda grass, fescue or rye grass hay are also suitable, according to the University of Mississippi Extension, as they also compost readily.Soak the...
California
Santa Monica
4 Tips for Safe & Efficient Hay Baling
Whether you enlist the help of your family and friends or hire helpers as necessary, you'll appreciate having a larger team of people. No farming pursuit is worth someone having a heat-related issue, so be careful, use good judgment—and bale on cooler...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
How to Plant Potatoes in Straw Bales
The pieces can be placed directly on top of the ground. Hay can be used also, if straw is unavailable.Cut the seed potatoes, but be sure there are three to five eyes on each piece.
California
Santa Monica
Composting Hay: Learn How To Compost Hay Bales
The shorter front allows you to reach into the square to shovel andweekly and the higher walls help keep in the heat to make the materials rot faster.Once the compost is complete, you'll notice that part of the walls have begun to incorporate themselves...
Ohio
Willoughby
Q&A With Straw-Bale Builder Andrew Morrison
Tamra Hamblin Ratieta It's hard to pick a favorite straw bale building, as there are so many beautiful options to choose from. Tamra Hamblin Ratieta AM: Building with bales could do so much for the environment, as the need for heating and cooling resources...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
4 Reasons to Start a Hay-Bale Garden
The only drawback to hay-bale gardening is finding a helpful friend to physically install the heavy bales and dismantle the garden at the end of the growing season—two rather labor-intensive tasks.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
How to Build a Compost Bin with Straw Bales
According to the Urban Food Garden's “Straw Compost Bins,” you should avoid building on couch grass because the grass will grow into the straw bale, becoming nearly impossible to remove.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
5 New Uses for Old Barn Finds
Black Oak Studios offers a great tutorial for getting started. Unearth the junk pile accumulating in your barn and transform the materials into something purposeful for the home or farm.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
No-till Fields Capture More Snow
As a result, regional farmers could increase their winter-wheat profits by an average of $30 per acre and as much as $54 per ridge-top acre under no-till management. The more uniform snow distribution under no-till was particularly apparent for ridge...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
How To Store Hay To Make It Last
They store well when flat ends are butted end-to-end in long rows. At the same time, hay shortages have become a way of life. Hay stacked on bare ground or concrete wicks moisture up through the bottom tiers, ruining the hay.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Strawbale Gardening: Why and How
It is grown to be used as livestock feed.I've been growing in straw bales for the past 5 or 6 years years. You don't have to bend over as much as working at ground level, which is an advantage for those with back problems or other physical challenges.
California
El Segundo
What Historical Farm Relics Lurk In A Pile Of Rocks?
(More on that in a moment.) The rock pile was created decades ago by the original owners of the farm, who cleared the rocks from the fields and piled them along the edges in long, rough rows.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
How Does Straw Grow?
If the straw is not dry enough to bale, the farmer allows it to set on the uncut stubble for several hours before baling. If round baling the straw, the full round bales are released into the field.
California
Santa Monica
Tractor Attachments: Get to Know the Plow & Disc
However, no-till is not perfect. With the emergence of no-till techniques, many farmers have cast aside plows in favor of alternative field treatments. “Most plows turn soil to the right, looking forward from the rear of the tractor,” he says.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
4 Ways To Feed Hay & Reduce Waste
There are a number of ways that you can feed hay to your livestock, including these four ways common on small-scale farms. Save yourself some money feeding your livestock this winter by setting up a hay feeder that reduces waste.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Tools of the Trade: Choosing a Hay Baler
According to the National Agricultural Statistical Reporting Service, in 2002, American farmers harvested 151 million tons of hay. Like their predecessor, our comparison models process hay into easy-to-handle, stack and store 14”- x 18”-bales.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
New Apps Keep Your Horse Slim and Healthy
“Ideally, the app will be used to compare prices of hay with similar forage nutritive values,” Martinson says. A $4 small square bale that weighs 35 pounds actually costs more per ton than a $5 bale that weighs 50 pounds, for example.” With the...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Stashing and Sorting Your Seeds
If you are as organizationally challenged as I am, the packets you accumulate could end up scattered all over your house before spring arrives. It's also a good time to get out there and gather some seeds!
California
El Segundo
Unpacking the New Farmhouse
Thankfully, my husband and I have family members willing to put up with piles upon piles of stuff for the past year-and-a-half while we renovated. Both criteria must be met to permit entrance into the house—easier said than done, obviously.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Calculate Winter Forage Needs
To calculate each bale's DM weight: Bale Weight (1,200 pounds) x Percent DM (0.8) = Amount of Hay DM Per Bale (960 pounds) To calculate per-cow hay needs: DM Needs Per Cow (5,625 pounds) ÷ Hay DM Per Bale (960 pounds) = Bales Per Cow for the Feeding...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Traveler\'s Palm
It appreciates a fairly rich soil and abundant water, although it is quite drought-tolerant once established.Starting from the ground up as a young plant, the tree will not have a trunk at all; this is formed later when the leaves mature and die off.
California
El Segundo
Toxic Fescue: A Danger for Livestock Moms-To-Be
If you live where fescue grows, assume it's in your pastures and probably in the grass hay you buy. Tall fescue ( Festuca arundinacea ) is one of America's most widely used forages—it is hardy, productive and insect resistant, tolerates poor soil and...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Choose the Right Gloves for Hay Season
I find that knit gloves don't offer enough protection, while rubber gloves just get, well, wet from sweat. Instead, I want durable gloves that protect my hands while I lift and stack hundreds of bales at a time.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Tools for Tight Spaces
Fortunately, there are also those for us hobby farmers. Newer Spreaders work best for spreading plain or composted manure and manure mixed with sawdust, shavings or pelleted bedding but not straw bedding or bedding mixed with large amounts of hay.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia