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Tree Hay
May 8, 2023
Grow your own animal food.
Trees have been fed to animals since... ancient times.
Also... remember that you are living in a former forage area
and to plant interesting foods for wildlife and migratory birds.
Tree Hay: A forgotten fodder
video by "Agricology" Channel
from the video description:
In this video (shown at the 3rd European Agroforestry Conference 2016) Ted Green, founder member of the Ancient Tree Forum, talks about pollarding for tree hay. The video is divided into three sections: a short history, managing pollards and feeding tree hay to livestock. See www.agricology.co.uk for more information.
Tree fodder is bundled for the winter into loose faggots and stacked
for storage.
Hi folks, I'm Ted Green. I'm a founder member of the Ancient Tree Forum
in the U.K.
And it's a group of people who are actually very passionate
about all aspects of old trees.
When you talk about "old trees"...
old trees were ALWAYS in the past... working trees.
Every tree that survives today... that is old... actually had to work for its
living.
And this first picture you see... could have been taken 7000 years
ago... or 7 minutes ago...
because it is really Agro-forestry.
From viewer comments:
"Where I live in Arizona, brush is the feed. Mostly mesquite, it has the same feed value as clover and once they get the idea, livestock will browse it to death. The Big Horn fires ate up over 40,000 acres on the Catalina Mountains. The fire spread till it hit pastures and stopped. Cattle break down dead growth and crush much of it into the earth where termites use it. Rather than a fire hazard like was on the mountains it's converted to fertilizer."
Fescue is a good cold weather grass, but there is a fungus that grows
inside one strain of it. They have developed a resistant strain, now.
This video is full of information on what you feed your animals.
Trees have been fed to animals since... ancient times.
Also... remember that you are living in a former forage area
and to plant interesting foods for wildlife and migratory birds.
Tree Hay: A forgotten fodder
video by "Agricology" Channel
And it's a group of people who are actually very passionate about all aspects of old trees.
When you talk about "old trees"... old trees were ALWAYS in the past... working trees.
Every tree that survives today... that is old... actually had to work for its living.
And this first picture you see... could have been taken 7000 years ago... or 7 minutes ago...
because it is really Agro-forestry.
