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I broke down and ordered some composted manure and hay. After adding it I also tryed adding some clay to the one small field to see if it helps hold the nutrients in place. These are small fields, 20 by 45 each, 6 all total so I can rotate crops easier.
I also finished the nursery enough to place 2 hens in it. they are happily sitting and waiting for the great hatch day. Woohoo more chickens!
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If you've got somewhere to put it, a lot of horse farms will be delighted to have you come pick up their manure. So if you have a place to store it, you can compost your own fertilizer. You've got the equipment to make a big pile, turn it yourself occasionally, etc.
Boarding stables typically have horses kept in stalls, clean the stalls once or twice a day, and have a great big manure pile. Some of them pay to have it carted off and it just goes in a landfill.
I'd offer you some myself (if you're close enough to be a short drive--all I know is you're somewhere in NE FL). But I *just* took all my composted stuff and spread it over my garden, and my new manure pile is hard to get to--and pretty small yet, too. Would have to be loaded into a wheelbarrow by hand, then into a vehicle/trailer, and there isn't enough of it to make it worth a trip.
My horses aren't kept in stalls, incidentally, so our manure pile is from manure picked out of the pastures--no stall bedding, no hay, no contaminants. RICH fertilizer when it's composted, lemme tell ya!
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