urban/small acreage essentials
Are you just starting out or have you owned land for a while and now ready to manage the acreage you have at a higher level?
You may not have a small acreage. Maybe it is a thousand acres? Maybe it is five or ten acres or just a lot with a house on it? Perhaps you are new to managing land with a lawn, garden, fruit trees, cropland, grassland, streams or forest. Could it be you have a small amount of livestock: cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, goats, chickens and more? Possibly you have a few pets?
Where do you start?
The best thing you can do to Read…Read…Read. Find books. Research online all the printed, photos and video resources.
The Shawnee County Conservation District’s website that you are on: www.sccdistrict.com has plenty of land and natural resource management information. – (Including ponds, terraces, waterways, cover crops, planting native grass and more).
There are plenty of topics on this website as well as links to other sites below:
Frequent request for information on this website:
Country Living. Topics to Consider. Checklist.
http://www.sccdistrict.com/country-living.html
Pond Construction, Repair, Maintenance, and Controlling Vegetation
http://www.sccdistrict.com/ponds---construction-problems-repair-fish.html
Key Conservation Practices To Help Manage The Land
http://www.sccdistrict.com/key-conservation-practices.htmlwww.sccdistrict.com/key-conservation-practices.html
Brush and Tree Control
http://www.sccdistrict.com/brush-management.html
Who Can Do the Projects I Need to Get Completed?
http://www.sccdistrict.com/contractors.htmlwww.sccdistrict.com/contractors.html
High Tunnels
http://www.sccdistrict.com/high-tunnels-greenhouse.html
Urban/Small Acreage Conservation Ideas
http://www.sccdistrict.com/urbansmall-acreage.html
Governing Bodies and Agencies
http://www.sccdistrict.com/other-agencies.html
Frequent requests for information on other websites:
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Program Information
https://www.farmers.gov/
Crop, Livestock and Other
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/agriculture/
Lawn, Garden, Landscaping
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/lawn-garden/home/
Fencing Laws
https://www.washburnlaw.edu/practicalexperience/agriculturallaw/waltr/articles/_docs/2016-004KansasFenceLaw.pdf
Barbed Wire Fence Construction
https://agriculture.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents---office-of-the-secretary/nrcs-fence-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=4
Background Into Land Management
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/historicpublications/