New manure source
Oh, glorious horse
manure! Free for the shoveling at the fairgrounds, we stocked up on a
truckload of moderately aged (but still hot) organic matter.
Like most stables
nowadays, the fairgrounds beds with sawdust (back pile) rather than
with straw. And even though that means the combo composts a little
slower, I have a feeling we'll be happy with the results.
Mark's already happy
with the way the pile has been pushed back against a wall so you can
stand on the pile or the tailgate and shovel horizontally rather than
tossing it up into the truck bed. We filled up the truck in half an
hour and I'd used every bit of the organic matter by 1:30 pm. More on
garden applications in a later post.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Most horses are on a strict worming regimen so it's helpful to find out what type of grains and supplements the horses are on. And it's very rare to see organic equine horse feeds.
That being said, we gets loads of horse manure/shavings dumped here for free and I reuse it as bedding for the chickens and as a top dress for the pasture. Great stuff!