WORK, work, and more work

Well, here at Hoffman's Haven the work never stops. I decided since my compost piles went completely anaerobic from the rain and I wasn't really going to get much further that I would go ahead and till in the compost that we had. Here is a short video of what I did.

I realize that we still need about 13 yards of topsoil/organic material to put us where I want to be. I still need to build in two or three working/walking paths in this thing. I also need to run the water line over for the drip system. We are going to go ahead though and plant a few things in here and see what happens. Late in the year I will haul in more material and plant a living mulch to till in later. For a living mulch I am going to get a bean mix as it is a nitrogen fixer. When everything dies off in the winter I can till it in as well but not before we can harvest some food from it.

This area used to be a playground and we thought about moving dirt/sand and taking the wood and building proper raised beds but I decided to just go with it as is. I know I am lazy but I can just add some paths in here it will be just as well. After we tilled the mixture of sand, dirt, and organic material smelled really good but we have a lot of work yet to do.

I hope one person out there in the internet land gets something from this. If just some inspiration and the willingness to grow some of their own food. I never want to preach to you. This is just what we are doing. I hope you can learn from it and hopefully use the knowledge for yourself.