Keeping Geese - for fun, eggs, companionship and weed control!

Homesteading is a sustainable trend for rural, suburban and even urban folk. Up on her stead in Liberty, Maine, Kirsten Lie-Nielsen so loves sharing life with a flock of geese she has written a whole honkin' how-to about it. Could Kirsten's new book, The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese (2017, New Society), entice your feathered fancy goose-ward? Perhaps this Earthworms conversation will! The scoop includes: choosing the best breed of goose for you, hospitable shelter and best geese eats, keeping geese healthy - and much more. Did you know geese are organic crop-weeders? Kirsten's blog chronicles life on her farm, with useful info for the land-lover in all of us. HONK!! Music: Jamie, performed live at KDHX by Yankee Racers THANKS to Anna Holland, this week's Earthworms engineer Related Earthworms Conversations: Crystal Moore Stevens: Grow - Create - Inspire (October 2016) Farm on a Building Raises the Roof (August 2016) Alpacas of Troy: Sustainable Farming on the Hoof (July 2016) Farmer Girl Meats - Pasture to Porch, Sustainably (June 2016)

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