We have about 15-30 tandem gravel truck loads of straw mixed with manure that I haul out to our compost pile every spring. We tried to do this yesterday (nice Mother’s Day project). In the first pic, I am repiling some 2-3 year old compost, it is basically very rich top soil. As it composts it shrinks to about 1/3rd its original volume.
This photo shows my disgust with the weather. In the end we hauled one load down to the pile, made a giant mess in our cow pen, amd didn’t accomplish much. It was just too muddy to steer the gravel truck so it is parked down by the compost pile with about 15 tons of manure in the box... it will be dryer today so I’ll be able to at least dump the truck out and bring it back up to the house.
That compost / organic fertilizer will get spread on our lawn and in some places on my hay field. I think I’m going to use a couple gravel truck loads to build some motorcross jumps and banked corners for my son in my north 1/4...