9:10 I have 4 horses . I don’t have any machinery. I put the manure in a windrow as high as a wheel barrel would allow and just let it sit there without turning it. 7 months later I had to move it to a different location . To my surprise it turn out to be the best compost I’ve ever seen. 👍🏼
I live in the Chicago suburbs and I started my own compost heap, just to get rid of kitchen scraps, coffee, tea, some leaves in the fall, and some grass clippings here and there, and just have less garbage. I just didn’t wanna pay to have garbage hauled away, so I started to just pile it together. I’ve never really paid attention to it, I’ve never tried to manage it. I just dump it all in there and overtime. The worms eat it up and it turns into soil and it grows fantastic things. I really do zero management, and I’m not even intentional about the percentages of what kind of material. If you leave it sit long enough, the worms will just turn it into dirt and it’s fantastic.
Then I would encourage you to start! You can have pretty good mini-farm on an urban lot. Even if you live in a condo with a north-facing balcony, you can still grow a lot.
Ah self employment. You might get rain seeds might germinate you might not have bugs fungus drought fire or hail destroy your crop, your harvest might come off with no equipment breakdowns and the price you will get might be more than your cost to produce and you have little or no control over all these perils. All this after you buy all the equipment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Working for a salary with benefits has significantly less risk
Would be nice if someone would be showing/doing this in the Arizona Desert. Seeing that most of these efforts are already dealing with soil, not poor dirt like Arizona.
I only have 0.14 acres... I can do a chicken coop & run. At least 5 fruit trees and 5 4'x15' beds and perennial fruit veg & herbs scattered around outside the beds. And that's only using half the space (the other half is reserved for dogs to run/play)
The nitrogen content of beets is not affected by their moisture level. The dried out ones are still high in nitrogen, they just need to be hydrated to host the microbes.
@@spectrixx I assume it is the vegetable which has probably been processed to extract the sugars. The pulp or whatever form likely dries out quickly before much microbial activity can take place making it stable for storage until it is rehydrated in the compost.
I heard the term " inoculants" I compost any and every organics I can get my PU and dump trailer to, and try to have a 15 cu yd pile going at all times. This is trying to upgrade my Arizona desert dirt, .5 % organics in virgin soil. So wanting info on the inoculant. See if it may assist in breakdown, our rains come in monsoon buckets. I also drop irr. the pile.
Getting away from the synthetics and their energy intensive production to the mulch/ compost that has a naturally powered process that serves the same purpose as the synthetics.
When he says if you put the compost in a ziplock and it’s doesn’t smell like ammonia, you can spread it. Ok so when I get compost from the city and put it in my van, my car smells like ammonia really bad. Does this mean it’s not ready to use?
Determining “doneness” of a compost product requires several factors, which are all discussed in the complete compost workshop playlist found here: ru-vid.com/group/PLnn8HanJ32l6uhwdS9m-G1z8Bq1U0aJzF. Long story short, an ammonia smell means the product still has excess nitrogen (N) in it and it’s not yet done or mature. We want the compost to smell earthy. That product will still have useful properties and nutrients, but the nitrogen parts of it will either be unavailable for plant use or may tie up other nutrient in the soil where it is applied. There are commercially available test kits you can purchase: solvita.com/product/solvita-compost-maturity-test-kit-6-pk/ as well as commercial labs that specifically run tests on compost: woodsend.com/#. Knowing the management of the compost (carbon to nitrogen ratio, temperatures, turning, etc.) is another way to help determine if it’s done and ready to use.
Yes. It means that the nitrogen has been out gased as ammonia. This means that some of nitrogen meant for soil nutrition has been lost. However, there is still some left to be used.
Crazy comments from non farmers...there used to be a 100 farmers for every 10,000 people. Now it's 1 for every 10,000. So farms were small, your small manure was always spread...either by hand with a wagon or later by machine. There is no - agriculture was better 100 years ago. It wasn't. There are shortcuts made in processing (fillers, painting strawberries, water injected meat). Buy local or better yet, try farming yourself on a very small scale. If you're a "better farming 100 years ago" person, make sure you have a shovel, pitch fork and wheelbarrow and give it a go.
Crazy comments from non farmers...there used to be a 100 farmers for every 10,000 people. Now it's 1 for every 10,000. So farms were small, your small manure was always spread...either by hand with a wagon or later by machine. There is no - agriculture was better 100 years ago. It wasn't. There are shortcuts made in processing (fillers, painting strawberries, water injected meat). Buy local or better yet, try farming yourself on a very small scale. If you're a "better farming 100 years ago" person, make sure you have a shovel, pitch fork and wheelbarrow and give it a go.
That compost is great with all that dewormer, and chemicals from the cows manure. That’s the way to do it, feed lot the cows and spread the manure, why don’t you just graze the cattle and plant the crops after the cattle has passed. I see it’s less work spreading manure than letting the cows do it.
@@whitshane3511 so in April when the frost goes out I should plant a grazing crop, let it grow for a month or so then let the cattle graze it and spread manure. Then around august I somehow have time to plant 100+ day corn that will somehow finish before the ground freezes in November? I’d have better luck crappin in my hand and clapping
Gigantic waste of valuable energy resources! Put the manure through a biogas plant and make use of the heat capacity, instead of wasting it to open air! Compost will still be useful, and other process waste from slaughter houses etc will be recycled in a very valuable way too.
9:10 I have 4 horses . I don’t have any machinery. I put the manure in a windrow as high as a wheel barrel would allow and just let it sit there without turning it. 7 months later I had to move it to a different location . To my surprise it turn out to be the best compost I’ve ever seen. 👍🏼
If you would turn it a couple times then you’ll have the compost in half the time at least. Mix in Green materials such as grass clippings or plant waste, etc and it will build more heat and you need to make sure you water it also which will help expedite the composting process.
9:10 I have 4 horses . I don’t have any machinery. I put the manure in a windrow as high as a wheel barrel would allow and just let it sit there without turning it. 7 months later I had to move it to a different location . To my surprise it turn out to be the best compost I’ve ever seen. 👍🏼
