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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

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.
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> 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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