The soil that's found under a lumber mill.

Check out this craigslist ad:

https://goldcountry.craigslist.org/grq/d/gold-run-soil-compost-humus/7458610949.html


Corn-flippin' amazing! Just another reminder to keep your soil covered at all times!

I already spent the quarterly budget here at "Dan's Raven-infested Dump/Farm" or I would be borrowing a trailer and heading out there.

Local sawmill has a huge pile of fully decomposed, black compost from before anyone cared about mulching. Only problem is that it is interlaced with cull logs and would need to be separated with a track hoe.  If I had a huge dump truck I’d talk to the owner about it, but I don’t and the one time I bought a couple yards of mulch from him it was easy to tell he didn’t like messing with small amounts.

On the other hand, the local furniture factory has piles of planer shavings free for the taking.

Dan, that is an absolute gold mine.  If I were closer, I would buy tons of it.

Gray, lucky for you to have a resource like that.  It may be worth renting a dump truck for half a day.

Those log sections and offcuts would go into hugelkultur just fine, too.

That's awesome!

I would ask pointedly if there was ever a wood treatment facility on the premises.

Thanks for the idea.  I have legal access to a site that used to have mountains of oak sawdust and wood chips.   Production stopped maybe 15 years ago.

Trace Oswald wrote:Dan, that is an absolute gold mine.  If I were closer, I would buy tons of it.

Gray, lucky for you to have a resource like that.  It may be worth renting a dump truck for half a day.

Worked really hard once on getting a tractor trailer load (75-80 yards) of beautifully composted leaves collected by the municipality.  Got all the way to having the hired tractor trailer at the dump site ready to load.  The city’s loader wasn’t tall enough and could not convince them to build a dirt ramp to get it up high enough.  Kind of gave up on the big hauls after that and focused on wood chips.  100+ yards of chips later, I got serious about biochar.  When my biochar feed stock dries up, I’m looking forward to a break.  I’m not as young as I once was!