Composter

[Anonymous]

Genuine 100% redneck composter All scrap except the staples

I decided as bad as fertilizer prices are getting and as bad as things are getting overall I’d best go ahead and make something small here that I can turn with a fork n shovel.
We’ve still got the larger scales at the farm and all I need is enough to replenish the garden soil each year.

[BarrensHomey]

I got 20 buckets of horse manure from the guy down the road, waiting for spring thaw to dump it on my hugelkultur mounds. Mix in topsoil and local sand and let it stew…

[Anonymous]

Cool

We put horse and chicken in those Huggelkulture beds we did at the farm. Now we’ve got cattle and a lot more diverse additives

Here I’ll just have leaves, chicken and grass which should be ample for the barrel raised bed garden

[Crow Bar]

Nice work Matt!

[Anonymous]

Turned over my compost pile. We’ve had 6” of rain last 3 days and yet the bottom was bone dry. It was about knee high in thickness. Remember this if you build a debris hut.

 

[Crow Bar]

Reading one of Gene Logsdon books (dont recall which one), and he noted wayyy back in the day, farmers would have hay stacks out in the fields (pre-tractor days). The top layer would get wet, but the under layers would be dry.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I rolled out a tightly wound round bale core the other day and all of it was dry despite several inches of rain

[Mark J]

Good. You may also want to try looking into aquaponics. This is a system that combines fish farming and growing plants on the irrigated water to produce both in one go. This is promoted as one of the best ways of producing food with very little land.

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