Ideas for Feeding during a Drought

[noeskimo]

Here are some ideas that helped me through last years exceptional drought-this year we're only extreme so we've got it made.LOL
1.Tree trimmings and prunings are great additions. For these talk to your city/county road maintenance, park maintenance, landscapers, tree surgeons, yard care and electric companies who trim trees to keep the lines clear. Everyone was more than happy to have their trimmings taken away.We know someone who has a 18-wheeler wrecker truck company. When a truck full of produce wrecks, the stuff on the road is just tossed and the stuff still inside, often is weighed for insurance purposes and dumped. We got half of a load of lettuce that way. Grocery stores and restaurants also have produce that they can't use. I've had better luck with restaurants than groceries, I guess it's a liability issue. Once school starts,I bet a school cafeteria might have some stuff too. Most of the produce I get is the outer leaves on a lettuce head, apple peelings etc. I am always VERY careful to look for mold-big no no, and not all my goats eat everything. Most of them love bananas, the riper the better, peel and all, some like cantaloupe and watermelon, most don't. I bet others have tricks that they use to reduce the hay bill. With the price of hay-better this year, thank goodness, every bit helps.

[Bambitski]

Between the cows and goats, I never worry about where to put my weeding and garden scraps. They get it all. Has helped out quite a bit. I went and got 13 gallons of fresh apples for apple sauce and all the peels went out this morning. The cows and goats seemed to appreciate it. Oh and the rabbits helped some too. We plan on going to some property my DHs uncle has and cut down some overgrowth this week for them. That will help quite a bit too.