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  • From: "Nan Johnson" <nan AT olemiss.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] speaking of mulch
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:17:14 -0500

Bless you Steve! I have been aiming to figure out for YEARS how much alfalfa pellets are needed to compost the leaf pile! Now I can tell all my livestock-less gardening friends! nan at dancing goats farm, n. mississippi

Steve Diver wrote:
You can also turn leaves into leaf-based
compost by following a recipe that matches
carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, C:N.
Don Boekelheide, home compost coordinator
for Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, figured
out that you need one 50-lb. bag of alfalfa pellets
(rabbit pellets) per 3'x3'x3' leaf bin to arrive at a
proper C:N ratio.








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