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Originally Posted by john70t
The key thing I liked was that any farmer can start to rebuild their soil. All it needs is:
1). Mulch piles.for compost
2). Worm farm bin or raised trench.
3). Put that material into another bin to create a bio 'tea' for a week and then spray on the fields. Natural fertilizer to build up the topsoil.
I've got a Cletis Multrum composting toilet bin in the garage that produces a nice brown odorless liquid.
Needs leaves and an occasional sprinkle of bio agent to help it along.
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Seems like an OK scale for a small flower bed. You are going to have to scale WAY up if you are going to rehab acres. For our 1/4 acre garden we brought in 9 yards of composted cow manure (found several farms that were giving it away on Craig's List).
We don't have a worm bin. There are naturally worms everywhere in good soil and they won't live in bad soil. Every fall we have a compost pile of grass clippings and leaves that is 4-5 feet tall and wide and 20 feet long. I turn the compost every 10 days to 2 weeks with the front end loader. We don't mess with saving kitchen waste for the compost pile. It's just a drop in the bucket and it's not worth the walk all the way to the compost pile. At this rate it will be years before we have really great soil, but it's getting better.
We brought in rotten cow manure on our car hauler, 2 yards at a time. Here is my wife Vicki, always shooting the 5hit.