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Hay Season 2010: We Get Organic With A Little Help From Our Friends

We are so stoked to be working with our neighbors at Schoolhouse Farm to restore the hay fields at the farm using best and organic practices, beginning this summer! Norman/Wendy/Schoolhouse Farm specialize in and offer Icelandic Sheep, Fine Art, and Premium Hay (that’s where our fields come in…).

We’ll be enriching our 10+ acres of hay fields with lime (mineral) and organic treatments from North Country Organics. Check out this photo of the lime application…

No-till seeding methods (tractor attachment that looks like a combination aerator/seed spreader – so cool!) will be utilized to introduce high-protein legume and grass crops, such as red clover and timothy, which are delicious and nutritious for hearty livestock breeds like Icelandic Sheep. The new grasses and legumes are also nitrogen-fixing species…meaning that they use nitrogen from the air to create and store more complex nitrogenous compounds in their roots. When these plants die or are harvested, the nutrient-rich nitrogen compounds are released into the surrounding soil. These crops are sometimes called “green manure” for this reason.

In addition to the long-term soil restoration project and organic forage/hay crop introduction, we are excited to begin a few small-scale experiments with grain crops (notably wheat, barley, and new type of organic hull-less oat). Stay tuned for more on this topic…

To learn more about the animals who will love our hay and our friends over the hill, visit SCHOOLHOUSESHEEP.COM

Written by robin on 06/14/2010 in AITA In The Wild | AITA Original | Blog | Food | Gardening | The Farm

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