Chicken pasture perimeter
Our chicken
pasture/moat perimeter is coming close to completion.
Sometimes I like to recruit a
tree to function as a fence post, like this small walnut.
It saves time and money, but
it also looks more natural, which in my opinion increases the already
high level of beauty around here.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Rebecca --- It's an Appalachian tradition to hook fences to a tree, and it definitely doesn't kill the tree. The tree just keeps on growing through and around the wire. As Sam mentioned, it does make it hard to use the tree for lumber in the future, but that's the only ill effect I've seen.
Sam --- These are all little "weed" trees --- I doubt they'll ever be lumber or even firewood. If they needed to be cut down for some reason, I guess we'd just cut down below the wire.
Cindy --- Good idea. I'm not sure I'd be kind enough to go through and back out the screw every year, though...