Mr. Caffeinated brought home a skidsteer, and has spent the last few hours emptying our compost bin and spreading the contents on the garden.
Our compost bin is 16'x8'x4', and was about half full of composted manure, garden trimmings, etc. from the last couple of years.
It sits between the corral and the garden, and the sides are removable precisely for this kind of access.
With the sides off, you can drive equipment right through it, and into the garden. Mr. Caffeinated emptied the whole thing in about an hour this way.
Hydraulics are awesome, I gotta say. This would have been a whole lot more work with a shovel and a wheelbarrow.
The hens are absolutely unfazed by the arrival of heavy equipment in their field. They can't eat it; it isn't chasing them, so they are 0% interested in it.
If we don't move it out by tomorrow, they'll probably find a way to lay eggs in it.
It may not look like much to the uninitiated, but that's prime gardening soil, right there! The end closest to the composter will be seeded soon for cool weather plants such as lettuce, kale, and broccoli. The hens have been off of that side of the garden for 100 days, and the compost is even more aged than that, so I'm not concerned about bacteria transferring into our food. With all the nutrients that the animals and composted plant matter, plus the new Trifecta fertilizer I'm trying this year, I hope to get a good harvest.
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