I wanted to share with y'all a quote that I just found that sings to my heart. I was looking at the presenters for the Utah Farm Conference. Vernie DeMille, one of the presenters said this in her bio, "I am the sum of my efforts and not my failures." Isn't that beautiful? We are planting elderberry cuttings today, fun times:) I wish you the best! Happy Thursday!
On the farm we have been working on our new no-till beds. We started them in the spring, but we are reconstructing them. Before we had a layer of straw on top of the dirt and then compost on top of that. We got the compost from the county (We later discovered that the compost was unfinished.) We had two or three heads of lettuce grow in the beds this summer, nothing else would. We think the failure was a combination of all the nitrogen being tied up in digesting the unfinished compost and the lack of direct contact between the compost and the soil. The beds that have done the best with this compost are the ones where the compost is touching the soil. We think the direct contact helps transfer the soil organisms. We have been calling our struggling beds the Frankenstein beds. This fall we tore out the Frankenstein beds, tilled, then made new beds with a compost/soil mixture, and are now applying a layer of our home-made finished compost mixed with the unfinished county compo
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