Hello everyone I just joined the board and would like some suggestions on our small farm in southern Indiana. We live on a small 13 acre farm on top of a hill with 8 horses and 2 angus heffers. My wife and I did a internship last season on a organic farm in northern Montana and want to use some technics we've learned to start to change our farm using methods like permaculture, no till and start the process of going totally organic.
This year we are expanding our garden and will focus on soil quality. unfortunately we will have to plow at the beginning of the season to expand, but we did lay a hefty amount of horse manure on top last fall. Crop rotation suggestion like which which crops deplete the soil in certain nutrients and which crops replace it and which would be the best cover crop for zone 6 this fall would be awesome. This area is going to be used as our vegetable garden. I have been thinking about using the straw bail garden method for our tomatoes alone and continue to rotate this method each year around the garden to help with
compost and soil quality. I've also considered investing in a couple hogs for tilling and fertilization.
Thanks you everyone for any input you may have to help us along the way,
-Seth Sampson