@homegrownmomma
It sounds like you're doing right with the 4 by 8 foot raised beds. That's what I wanted to do this past winter but didn't have time so I'm going to do it next winter. I'm going to have one Bobcat scoop of topsoil and two Bobcat scoops of mushroom compost. I'm going to buy a big bag of perlite to mix in it. It might not be the way other people do it but it's how I'm going to.