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**Brinton Construction CO, Gower, MO: 18163901660
**Brinton Construction CO, Gower, MO: 18163901660
*Estimates:
*Estimates:
**Our site potential: 1 acre pond, maybe 1.5 acres
**Our site potential: .25 acre
**1-3 weeks if we contract, 1 month if we rent on weekends (cheaper), 6 weeks with LifeTrac given unexpected delays
**1-3 weeks if we contract, 1 month if we rent on weekends (cheaper), 6 weeks with LifeTrac given unexpected delays
**Small ponds can easily range from $10,000 to $20,000 per acre or more, while larger ponds (10 acres or more) can range from $1,000 to $5,000 per acre or possibly even less for ideal sites.
**Small ponds can easily range from $10,000 to $20,000 per acre or more, while larger ponds (10 acres or more) can range from $1,000 to $5,000 per acre or possibly even less for ideal sites.

Revision as of 17:00, 30 July 2012

Missouri Planting Calendar

Thanks so much Matt! Transcribed from Tim Cokenhower via Tim Obrien.

Southeast Corner - Summer 2012

Food Plans

Rabbit plan showing specific numbers + timeline for acquisition, breeding, grow out, and harvest from Monday until March 1 (end of winter).

  • Opal Doe: born May 2 - $10
    • Potential for breeding starts: November
    • She’ll probably be anestrus (not cycling) from October-February. Individual and weather-dependent.
    • Potential for litter: December, ~7 kits
    • Market weight reached after 2 months
    • Earliest Harvest: early February
  • 4 Florida White does: Kansas City, can pick up asap - $20
    • Potential for breeding starts: November
    • Potential for litter: December, ~4-7 x 4 = 16-28 kits
    • They’ll probably be anestrus (not breeding) from October-February. Individual and weather-dependent.
    • Market weight reached after 2 months
    • Earliest Harvest: early February
  • Hermione - adult brood New Zealand doe - Maysville, can pick up asap - $25 as is, $30 bred
    • Potential for breeding starts: now
    • Potential for litter: September, ~7 kits
    • She’ll probably be anestrus (not cycling) from October-February. Individual and weather-dependent.
    • Market weight reached after 2 months
    • Earliest Harvest: Early November
  • Total winter potential yield:
    • excellent manure
    • 30-38 kits ~ 34 avg potential
    • 34 kits x 5 lb market weight = 170 lbs carcass x 48% dressing yield = 78 lb meat
    • potential for future generations, more brood does, etc.
  • Total Costs:
    • $60 = $.76/lb of winter meat
    • labor

Please include feeding strategy for winter rabbit, including any cost.

  • Forage, baled clover/weeds, food scraps/green compost from 6-8 people

Rabbit housing plan for winter.

  • We can set them up in the chicken house or move some barrels in the greenhouse to make room for them.

Cow housing plan for winter and timeline for build.

    • Easy/Instant: T posts, cow panels making a pen in sheltered east end of old workshop/under the shade.
    • Holzer-style:
      • needs earth mover, logs, pond liner, labor
      • procedure: choose site, move earth, cut and bury logs, line, cover with earth
      • benefits: permanent, aesthetic
      • it would be up where future pasture is going to be, in the NE
      • potential problems:
        • water transmission (buried line from pond or well to where is. can be solved by adding rain catchment to her shelter.)
        • she should be close to her food (solved by baling hay and stacking it near shelter, under tarp)

Winter greenhouse construction plan for winter and timeline for build. Winter outdoor crop plan and timeline. Winter greenhouse crop plan. Winter outdoor crop equipment requirements. Please prepare a video on your surveying process with technical step by step instructions for what you are doing. Key line plowing technique and timeline; with particular attention to plow hookup to tractor and which plow we will use

  • single-spade plow
  • needs testing, possible a subsoil blade attachment if spade doesn't dig deep, I'd like to cut in at least 6"
  • needs to attach onto back of Lifetrac, low and centered
  • back bar - welded onto Lifetrac. Need to source materials and design.
  • timeline - half a week for testing and development, one week for plowing
    • should be done after harvest time, before planting time
  • locations: everything east of the trees avoiding the garden, buildings, and deep ruts

Timeline and budget for contracting a pond. Dennis Brinton is coming on-site to talk numbers in the next couple of weeks, he’s doing a pond right now and has an opening after. He said sometime when it’s not too hot, after his current job is done, in the evening. He’s going to call me to set a date. He’s been in the business since the 70’s.

    • Brinton Construction CO, Gower, MO: 18163901660
  • Estimates:
    • Our site potential: .25 acre
    • 1-3 weeks if we contract, 1 month if we rent on weekends (cheaper), 6 weeks with LifeTrac given unexpected delays
    • Small ponds can easily range from $10,000 to $20,000 per acre or more, while larger ponds (10 acres or more) can range from $1,000 to $5,000 per acre or possibly even less for ideal sites.
    • Figure $1.50 - 3.50 per yard of material depending on the difficulty of excavation and costs specific to local market conditions]
      • 1 acre=43560 sq feet x 10 ft deep = 435600 ft^3 = 145200 m^3

Detailed garden plan up to one foot resolution for root crop plant out and greens plant out (fall crops) assuming access to irrigation. Show timeline and assume the two fenced areas.

  • Horto Domi: brussel sprouts, beets, cabbage, dill, bush beans, spinach, broccoli, and cauliflower
    • 30 sq ft
  • Roots garden: sweet potatoes, turnips
  • Grains and Veggies garden: lettuce, brassicas, beets, turnips
    • 768 sq feet

Detailed irrigation plan assuming zero rainfall in the next 45 days. Include water source, hose/tubing layout, fittings, spigots.

  • Source: well water pumped into rain catchment barrels, pumped in any direction using the submersible pump
  • Tubing: black poly hose running from rain catchment to the SE
  • Splitter with ball valves connecting to two garden hoses
  • Another poly tube running from rain catchment to the roots garden for watering sweet potatoes and half barrels
  • Conservation strategies
    • mulch
    • strategic planting (planting less thirsty plants)

Sheep plan - numbers, fencing, winter feeding plan and cost. Budget for acquisition and sourcing. Sheep wool quality management plan given our rough foliage.

  • Haven’t seen a lot of thistles that I usually run into, it isn’t one of my biggest concerns, considering we’ll be processing on-site. Professional shearers and mills won’t accept wool with certain burrs, but we can work with almost any range of wool quality, it just changes processing time and procedure.
  • Seed softer, more useful, tastier forage plants: alfalfa, more clover, native grasses to compete with the pricklies

Wool harvest plan including shearing process, carding, spinning, weaving - with equipment sourcing, budget, timeline, and yield calculations for wool, yarn, and cloth yardage weaved. Work with OSLoom people.

In Fall

  • Seed grains before it freezes: wheat, barley, rye, oats
    • aiming for at least 3 acres
    • no-till: seed balls
    • harvest plan: OS combine, plan b is scythe
  • Plant turnips, spinach, brassicas, bush beans
    • SE corner
    • Scatter seeds, trim weeds down to mulch, spread some straw for water retention
    • Irrigation made possible by being close to greenhouse/wellwater, in case we get no rain
  • Cut hay for the cow over winter
  • Hoping to get at least 1 litter out of the rabbits, also sourcing more does

Animal Foods

  • Rabbits
    • Currently sourcing more does on Craigslist
    • We should have at least one litter before winter, those will grow through winter and we'll eat them after a few months.
  • Second Dairy Cow
    • Dairy Milker needed
    • After Goodcow calves, if she has a male we should go ahead and buy a second cow. If she has a heifer calf we should raise that one to be a dairy cow.
  • Pigs
    • Infrastructure: pallet fence, water
    • Location: forest strip
  • Sheep - dual purpose breeds
    • Blue Faced Leicester
    • Local breeds
    • Infrastructure necessary: pallet fence, water
    • Location: top of the hill on East side of the trees


Materials

What we need:

  • Bulldozer: either rented or developed on-site
  • Single-spade plow hookup for LifeTrac
  • Ripper attachment for the double-spaded plow

To do

  • Survey
  • Site Plan
  • Source bulldozer
  • Augment LifeTrac
  • Dig, dig, dig (ponds, swales, cellar, keyline)
  • Amend soil
  • Plant
  • Reap what we sow:
    • Pallet fence
    • Edible fences
    • Fruit and nut trees
    • Vines (grapes, berries)
    • Food and medicinal plants
    • Polyculture vegetables
    • Experimental cash crops: brussels, endives
    • Experimental food diversification: Moringa trees

Nitrogen-fixing shrubs:

  • cuttings from natives around: falltime
  • Partridge Pea
  • False Wild Indigo
  • Climbing rose (on site)
  • Elaeagnus angustifolia (on site)

In Time:

  • Spreading manure (up to 20 tons/acre)
    • Sources: Teddy Pankau (dairy) and Tim (horse)
    • Chickens as flock grows and matures
  • Compost (from pile on-site)
  • Worm Tea/Castings (develop vermiculture)
  • Bio Char (from trees on-site)
  • Spreading hay
  • Mulching and edible mushroom inoculation

Requires bulldozer:

  • Root Cellar/Shroom House
  • Dig Swales and berms (hugelkultur)
  • Dig ponds (water loving natives, watercress, cat tails)

Sources

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