Compost is a critical element in any Regenerative Agriculture system. In our farm it is they key driver of fertility and we use the no dig approach of applying all amendments to the soil surface allowing "gravity" and worms to incorporate them into the soil.

We currently have two composting systems, one is our Chicken Run which is a deep litter system and the other is piles made from horse manure and weeds from the gardens. The chicken powered compost is much higher quality and is pictured below.

This is 400 Litres of sifted compost applied to a 10 x 0.75 m market bed. This is the first compost this bed has received, next time it will get 200-300 Litres.

The bed was broadforked to deeply aerate before the compost was applied to the top and we planted this bed with 2 rows of celery. Celery likes fertility and water.

We are currently lightly planting our beds as compared with other similar market gardens as our soils were biological dead when we started so we are going easy on the soil for now.