Everyone knows that homemade is best, and that is as true for compost as it is for cooking. As part of the regenerative model of agriculture, we strive to create our own compost using outputs already available to us on the farm: manure from our donkeys, llama, and poultry, as well as old hay from our fields, and vegetable and plant matter from our greenhouses. Our soil blocked plant starts thrive in this rich growing medium, and we utilize every bit of compost that we produce each year.
To help ensure that we will always have a ready supply of finished compost when we need it, we have built several Johnson-Su Composting Bioreactors.
These bioreactors are much easier on the land, because instead of tearing up the soil with the tractor in order to routinely turn the compost pile, we simply load these bioreactors by hand, step back, and allow them to do their work over the course of a year.
It’s easier on the land and better for the farm, and that is the sort of positive outcome that we support here at Blue Ridge Farm.