Posts under Exploring Old Ways Category
Before all the modern conveniences we have today came along, farmers used every resource they could find to contribute to their day to day productivity and horse manure was no exception. We used to spread ours around the field with a tractor, breaking it down so it not only looked a lot better but reduced the odors and helped enrich the pasture soil a little bit too. Well, our tractor has fallen victim to our reduced earnings and had to be sold some time ago and we’ve had to do without it. The manure around here is not only abundant, it is also ugly and when summer comes, will also be smelly. Flies will likely be a problem too. For the past several years we gave our horses feed through fly control products (that worked great by the way) but I’m not sure the budget will bear that this time around. So we have looked to our history for help. What can we do with all this manure, a little bit of time and some creativity? Okay, and some work too…
