guildfordcycads

Am wanting to utilize the compost that has been building in this area.

Several years of roughly 2 acres of maples leaves are collected here

Grass is growing. Virginia creeper is present. Small cedar trees.

Old food compost is nearby. Ash from wood stove is nearby as well. Both of these are relatively separate.

High walnut content though, as the last several years of walnut drops are blown into this area. Ive heard that walnuts are a contaminate?

Clearly, I have not been purposeful with this compost area. Is it at all useful?

Thanks

We used to compost constantly, between coffee grounds every morning, fruit peels, and veggie scraps we made mountains of compost and routinely had to bury compost having filled our composting 2 rotating bins within 1.5 months. These bear proof bins are still a delightful smell and toy attraction to our youthful bear and we had to give up the practice to try to keep a particularly human-comfortable juvenile safe(r). Everyone in the neighborhood stopped composting as we are trying to discourage him from raiding the area for easy foodstuffs.

My question is, can we compost the outputs of one of the electric “composters” that essentially dehydrate and grind food waste? Will that be 1) be less attractive to bears and 2) still turn into nutrient rich soil additives if we put it into our rotating composting bins?

Thankyou!!!

Deer have been completely demolishing our garden despite the fencing we have up (7′ deer netting and t posts). I’ve wanted a dog anyway for security and companionship, though this would be a 100% outdoor farm dog. I’ve been on several farms where dogs weren’t fenced in, and many of our neighbors havefree range dogs, though they come in at night. I am well aware of all the reasons not to do it. For those of you who have had success, what training, breeds, light fencing etc would you recommend? We have 60 acres on a dirt road, and Fort Knox fencing is out of our budget. We’re want the dog to mostly stay by the house, about a 2-3 acre clearing (with challenging topography for fencing).