Good little side gig. 30 goats x 50lbs x $4/lb = $6000. If one person had brought all of them in, it's about $20k and that could be done while having a full time job.
Potatoes love ground hardwood leaves or leaf mold. One year I scraped an area of forest humus, decaying leaves, after I had raked. I used the old garden tractor with grader blade. Dragged it to the garden area and dug it in. I got the full 7 pounds return for each 1 pound of seed potatoes planted and they were just perfect and blemish free.
For months, I just went out with a fork and dug up a few meals worth any time we needed more.
My neighbor copied me and added ground up leaves and it was the best potato harvest he’d ever had and he’s grown them for many years.
We have heavy, clayey loam but it’s pretty good when amended enough.
I also have a snow plow for the garden tractor and pushed up a huge pile of forest humus mixed with mostly rotted sticks/logs. It’s probably about time to bring it up and dig it in along with a little compost.
Good little side gig. 30 goats x 50lbs x $4/lb = $6000. If one person had brought all of them in, it's about $20k and that could be done while having a full time job.
Ok, sounds great thanks. I’ll forget the high priced chopped straw. We get buried every fall with hardwood leaves, mostly oak.