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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The use of R.C.W. in agriculture
  • Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:01:14 -0700

The amounts they're talking about are tiny, for maintenance. If you take the larger quantity (20 cu. m. / hectare), that translates into 2-6 cu. ft. cartloads to do 100 of my new round beds (1800 sq. ft. total). The initial addition is 10 times larger, but once it's done, it's (we're told) enough for 3 years. I have a shredder to do the initial work, and plenty of tree whips, and I wanted to have some alfalfa beds anyway (they suggest a cover cropping schedule to follow the initial application). As far as the future, I have an idea for how to shred twigs. Let's see, I'd have the entire autumn to shred 12 cu. ft.; I think that's about a gallon a day.

When I think of all the work that would go into making conventional compost, just to watch it disappear, there's no comparison.

Bill

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

As for chipping or crushing limbs in the forest or collecting twigs and small branches, I see no way to do it economically.





You can't, unless it is a byproduct. When the trimming crews with those huge truck borne chippers are cleaning out the powerlines, I stop and ask them if they need a place to dump close by .. which they always do. I've gotten tons of chipped wood this way.

Of course, it's like a lot of things. If we run short, which we must, of chemicals to grow food and our only real solution is to create soil, then suddenly the direly necessary becomes economical as well.
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