Compost Mix
Our compost starts with our rabbits. We feed them organic rabbit feed as a base, along with a wide variety of vegetables and grasses from our homestead. All of their droppings get collected into bins that have a mix of bio-char, zeolite, bentonite clay, and diatomaceous earth (to absorb smell and lock in nutrients). We take that mixture to our compost pile and add in several additional ingredients which include: garden scraps, cardboard (that’s loaded with cricket frass), organic tea, coffee grounds, and food scraps (like fruit, rice, and bread from our home ingredients). These all get added in, but we are picky about what goes into our bin!
We make our compost in 2-3 cubic yard batches to keep consistency while also maintaining heat for thermophilic compost to break everything down and do its job. Over the course of two months, each batch is flipped and aerated multiple times. Amendments like malted barley, sprouted seed meal, gypsum, oyster shells, neem seed meal, karanja cake meal, kelp meal, alfalfa, and fish bone meal are mixed in between flips to maintain heat and add a diverse amount of nutrients. There’s a lot more to growing plants than just NPK. We strive to provide everything a plant could ever need over its entire life cycle to grow to its fullest potential.
Once the compost is broken down, we screen it twice. The first screening goes back to a fresh batch of compost, while the second screening gets fed to the worms. From there, we water nematodes in and let the compost age for a minimum of one month before it gets bagged*. To have the most biologically alive soil and compost, we wait to bag our product to ensure we keep everything alive, just like a plant the microbes and fungi like to breath and drink. We refresh our mixes with compost tea and mixing the soil every few weeks.
*(We do not bag our compost mix until we receive an order.)
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The best compost ive ever used, been gardening for around 5 years now and my tomatoes and peppers plants were almost twice the size as usual last year, i watered less, and i feel like they tasted better. Ill be back every year!
Couldn’t be happier with the results
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