Composted Manure in High Demand
In years past I could count the number of families that had had gardens on my hand (with a few fingers left over). As most of you know we build some manure piles every year so that we can have composted manure for our gardens. We always have a few folks stop and ask for manure for their gardens, less every year as the generation “from a’ the old a’ country” gets older and dies off. Then this year, families have been coming in steady stream looking for manure. Somedays 5 or families! Young men, middle aged wives, old folks and every age in between. There is certainly a lot more folks gardening this year. Went to pick up the seed taters and they were all out. Never had that happen before. They said it was strange, never sold out so early. Had to call all over to find the kid’s their Pontiacs (they won’t grow anything else). Seed companies are saying its the biggest sales year since just before the Y2K scare. I for one am happy, its nice to see all the folks in countryside growing their own food again. Everyone asked what they owe us for the manure and are suprised that we don’t want any money. We are just tickled pink to see people asking for it! People are catching on, better late than never I guess.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:00 am
We’ll there! Some good news! And these people, who haven’t been gardening, even knew to get manure for their gardens- that’s more than what I knew when I started gardening!
May 30th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Hey Scott,
I might have mentioned this in an earlier post, but here at the local Feed & Seed, Mr. Harvey told me that there are more people starting backyard gardens than ever since he took over. Alos, you have to get on a waiting list to buy chickens from any of the stores locally within an hour of here.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Okay, it took me a while to get my garden in, but I have now planted the Hopi Blue field corn. I also have planted quinoa and amaranth, for chicken feed as well as people feed. I will let you know how it goes. I planted it in a spot where I had put about six inches of leaves and straw in the fall and then, before I planted, I put two good loads of chicken litter on the soil and tilled it in. I am expecting good things, Lord willing.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
We started a big compost pile with the manure our animals bless us with. Perhaps we will have some folks interested in this too.