Nitrogen for farming, The price is up about 300% this
year under Biden.
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chicken poop. beans...
It is gonna take some work but it isn't impossible and will be better over all.
You can use beans as fertilizer?
OH MY GOSH IT IS THE TITS!!!!
Look up something that I think is called complementary agriculture.
So some plants are able to put nutrients into the soil, beans are one of them. They add nitrogen to the soil AS THEY GROW, so you can use them to help nitrogen hungry plants like tomatoes without needing additional fertilization while growing beans that you can eat!!!!!
Agriculture is wicked awesome.
Look up the food forest oasis in the desert!
I will check that out. I live in the desert and myself and friends grow edibles. It is definitely a challenge over here.
Please do, I have seen at least two examples of someone starting a food forest in the middle of the desert. Hugleculture I think is what they used. Basically just burying organic matter like logs in the sand and letting them break down makes a nutrient dense soil perfect for growing that is amazeballs at storing water. Needless to say we have not been growing right at all, go figure.
"three sisters" method
Nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots
I believe all legumes do this, so would clover work too?
You are correct. Even tree species in the legume family will fix nitrogen perennially instead of tilling in as a cover crop like clover or rotating like soy beans. I personally like to feed the biology of the soil, the microcosm of life is really what makes nutrients available for plants. So increasing organic matter for worms and fungus and bacteria etc, you're indirectly giving the plants easier food to use as fuel.
I do believe having one field completely filled with clover in a crop rotation system used to be standard in the old days.
Guess I jumped the gun on that response, last in a long line of country folks. Another great source of nitrogen for the small farmer is urine, your body inhales a considerable amount of nitrogen an excretes it in pee. It's diluted in a 10:1 ratio.
The beans or legume plants pull nitrogen out of the air an put it in the soil. It's often used as a winter cover crop then tilled into the soil in early spring.
I've already ordered 100 broiler chickens to fertilize my field. But those birds need feed, and it is going take fertilizer to grow feed.
Look into something that I am calling complementary agriculture. It brings up something weird when you search it though.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/complementary-plants-vegetable-garden-40041.html
sometimes also called the "three sisters"
I saw that after I posted the link. I refer to D.C., London and The Vatican as the three sisters though. Evil, dark, wenches of the past!!!!! I felt so clever....
The combo for cattle is grass + any legume. Clover is a good complement, but it's only one of many.
I WANT A COW!!!! but I need a fence first.
Watch Gabe Brown on youtube. His farm is incredible.
Work = fuel which they can’t afford either. Most farmers will cut their losses sell their land to bill gates and get a job in IT
They need help. People help. They didn't always rely on machines and fancy chemicals. Nature provides!
These are big commercial farms now not mom and pop operations.
and? They have all the equipment necessary to make this work. Large farms are largely mismanaged for this specific reason. They were made dependent for this specific reason. Everything required to farm is naturally provided on this planet, and most would pay to have some of it removed.
The plane is in a nose dive. Someone screams, "pull up, dear God, PULL UP!!!!" Someone in the back, "actually this is a government rig and we aren't supposed to pull up in the event of a nose dive, we will crash soon at it will all be over then."
Meanwhile we were made dependent on the big farms when we could do what they do for a fraction of the cost gaining all the benefit of maintaining a garden that eventually becomes a net gain with near zero over head.
They need you reliant on them, we do not need to be reliant on them.
Doesn't matter if the crop is half the size,it's worth twice the money.
They may even make more.
What? The rule has always been nothing grows where chickens have been. I tried too use our chicken house cleanings in the garden in the past and its been a no go besides green beans and broccoli
Tomatoes love the nitrogen as well. I have yard birds and no, nothing will grow where the birds have access to, they will eat it before you can see it. Also, a little nitrogen goes a long way so it is to be used sparingly. I wouldn't expect to see much growth around the coop, but you can make a slurry to control how much and how quickly the garden is exposed to the nitrogen. Find some nitrogen loving plants to throw around the coop to collect some of the excess from their area. I would go a few feet out as a little nitrogen goes a long way and can cause most plants a bad time when starting. Also try to get the nitrogen into the soil before you grown, do not add bird poop after you have planted, get it into the soil a few months before planting what you want to grow. There are other complementary growing methods you can use as well to help soak up excess nitrogen and put other nutrients into the soil.