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Pollarding the "weed" trees in the food forest

Inevitably, unwanted trees grow wild in the food forest but instead of cutting them down entirely to remove them, I pollard them. By pruning the tree back to the main trunk, I get food for the rabbits. If I kill the tree, okay but if it lives then it will grow even more food for the rabbits next season.

I do the same practice with the seedling apple trees that get too large to use as grafting rootstock. I didn't realize how convenient planting them next to the rabbit colony would be. Each year I cut all the branches of each of the trees and toss them into the rabbits. Each year the apple trees have more branches to cut.

#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #forestgarden #foodforest #pollarding #returnsurplus #nonextraction

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rev.hodl 2y ago

The rabbits in the rabbit colony cannabis garden are thriving.

https://v.nostr.build/KaWv.mp4

It seems that everything project on the homestead is providing a huge meal for the rabbits in the cannabis garden lately.

We have been experimenting with waiting longer to harvest. Before we were worried about over population but the cannabis garden is so large it can support more rabbits than we thought. However, with winter coming, it's going to be time to harvest all that are good size soon.

Since we have been feeding them so much, there hasn't been as much fighting amongst the males. Maybe they are fighting less because they have made more burrows which are more well spread out in the colony too. This system has performed very well for us this year so far. I can't wait to tally up the total amount of cannabis and rabbits meat it produced.

#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #rabbitcolony #rabbit #cannabis #weedstr #producenowaste

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Jim Smij 2y ago

turning cannabis into protein has got to the best thing I've seen in a while, I love that, and is a real big "FY" to the system. I love that too.

#smij #zapd

rev.hodl 2y ago

Cannabis is a very high quality animal forage. Its a shame it's so heavily regulated. I could obtain many many yields from the plant if I could grow it freely.

Ruminant Llama 2y ago

Keep on posting. This is so entertaining!

😆

rev.hodl 1y ago

A rabbit harvest is way overdue

https://v.nostr.build/6MWR.mp4

We have way too many rabbits that we've been feeding only because we haven't prioritized harvesting them. We usually catch them as part of the morning chores but with the winter chores it has fallen out of routine. We just ate three from the crock pot, have one resting in the fridge and one in a cage that I'll process tomorrow. I hope to have the rest harvested over the next week or so. We are still undecided whether to get new breeding stock in the spring or keep what we have. We are are looking for slightly larger rabbits.

#homesteading #permaculture #permies #meshtadel #rabbit #rabbitcolony #selfsovereignty #homegrown

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𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

Do you harvest the rabbits year round?

rev.hodl 1y ago

Typically they would all be harvested right now and we wouldn't start harvesting again until May.