A Food Garden for Parrots

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

The present economic situation forces everybody to cut back on expenses.

Slashing pet food expenses with 40 parrots to feed on a daily basis calls for creativity, since they eat a lot of food. Parrot pellets are far too expensive, since all of those are imported.

While many parrot owners in Southern Africa feed their parrots mainly dry sunflower seeds and maize, I prefer to keep mine on a balanced organic diet. This ensures that my parrots are healthy, resilient and much larger than average, invariably drawing forth highly positive comments from visitors.

Since I’m neither willing to reduce my flock nor prepared to sacrifice their health in order to cut expenses, I am pushed to get creative for the sake of my birds.

I used to buy all the necessary organic fruit and vegetables to add to their sprouted seeds and boiled legume mix.

Now, with ever rising food prices, all fruit and veggies are becoming unaffordable, never mind organic or not. Even sunflower seeds have doubled in price just this year.

Ok, so I decided to produce my own organic food. First of all I planted shrubs and trees that produce fruit for my parrots, many of them indigenous. These, however, need time to grow before they bear any or enough fruit. In the meantime I collect whatever I find in public places.

Then I went looking for the best method to grow my own organic vegetables. To my dismay horticulture concentrates on problems and problem solving. No more problems for me, thank you, have enough of them as it is; one being the fact that at my age strenuous, backbreaking work is no longer as achievable as it used to be.

Eventually luck came to may aid. In my constant search I opened a website which had the exact thing I was looking for: an embarrassingly easy, no-sweat method to grow my own organic food.

Imagine, within just four hours my first organic vegetable plot was implemented, planted and set to grow, no joking. If one sales pitch proves to be true like this, I trust the rest too.
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