Hugelkultur With Sawmill slabs?

My base operation for my farm is centered around a Sawmill. I am working to try to capure everything but the squeal. One problem is that in the summer I have more slabs than I can use or sell or give away. I was wondering about utilizing Hugelculture for some.
My operation is 100 acres and much is sloped with thin soil (rock poking out) in places.
What I am thinking is that I could easely bundle my slabs and build a berm 6 feet high. I have Sawdust so I would pile the top side with dust then bury everything with soil. I am blessed with equipment so this isn't a problem to build.
Question what do you recomend as crops on top.
How do you pick something that is soft ground and has something growing 6 foot off the ground level. I am wondering about berries and if you have 6 foot black berries on a 5 foot mound and the mound has rotting floor seems a problem.

Sounds like a great idea to me! Go for it. There is a very extensive thread on Hugelkulture here on this site with more info than you probably need. Best of luck and let us know how it goes.

Yes with the same conditions of roundwood regarding species and whether the wood is treated.

The wood will rot slowly enough that the mound will not be overly soft (I predict).

I have a sawmill, and all my mounds have slabs in them..so..yeah. lol.

Around here (the PNW), once the (wild) blackberries get several feet tall, they begin cascading down.
I would think it would be very easy to train them down.

A 5' huglemound with a berry growing 3' above it, and cascading down to ground level would create a tremendous barrier.
Only the birds could get by it easily.

OK I have a real problem now. I have been studying and now have a real problem with this. What are you going to do about termites and carpenter ants.
I live in TN and burrying logs are a recipe to have termite swarms.

I was wondering Roy if you ever ended up using the slabs from the sawmill, and how it worked for you?
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