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Feeding our family on our farm...what it takes to build a garden

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What happens here

The video begins with the presenter introducing his 'corn garden' or 'upper garden,' explaining his crop rotation system. He then shows a large pile of aged, composted horse manure, estimated at 15 tons, which has been composting for about six to eight months and includes added rock dust for mineral content. This material is described as a 'soil amendment' that will be incorporated into the garden, which previously received wood chips and compost. The overall goal is to build up the soil over time to improve its quality, contrasting it with previous less successful attempts using chemical fertilizers.

Goal: The presenter introduces the garden area, previously amended with wood chips and compost, and the primary material for this project: approximately 15 tons of 6-8 month old composted horse manure mixed with rock dust, designated as a vital soil amendment.

Tools and materials

  • Composted Horse Manure
  • Rock Dust

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hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful day here spring is in the air and we've got to start working on our upper garden so this is what we call our corn garden or our upper garden we rotate crops from our upper garden to our lower garden that's down by the house so today what we're going to be doing is spreading a lot of manure so that is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of i don't know 15 tons of manure and that's buddy the dog he's a good boy unload unload good dog what a good dog man awesome so what we're going to be doing today it's kind of going to be a two-part or a two-day series um we're gonna combine it all into one video but what we're doing is taking some of this black gold right here that's been composting for about six or eight months and we're gonna spread it out on our garden that we've already spread wood chips and compost and all sorts of stuff so we're putting soil amendments in our garden

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