Milking the Rooster

The feed-back loop is a standard example of what I’ve heard of as systems theory, it boils down to “Repeat any action for long enough, and the side effects of this action, no matter how slight, will become apparent”. Here at Melliodora and throughout the Permaculture world (and probably that of most pre-affluent societies) these side affects are made into opportunities wherever possible, eg. foodscraps for chickens, waste composting and topically, hard green waste from the goats’ fodder.

I refer here particularly to the medium sized, spindly branches left from the goat fodder once the resident Caprines (Bette, Read the rest of this entry »