Dear Dave,
I live up in Greenville , Texas and have been working with my children for the past few weeks redesigning my raised beds into Kugel Cultur beds. I do have the use of a front end loader and since I live in the country , supply of fallen wood is ample. In the last couple of weeks , I tried to make some pictures of the process in various stages. I have a neighbor who has an area / pile of composted Manure/ high nitrogen hay for the overlay which we are putting on the wood/logs before putting back the good soil I had been developing in the raised beds . I am including some compost bins every 6 ft ( modified key hole) to allow my children to add the home generated and weeded grass into the Piles.I do not think the cows are wormed chemically, which is what I am concerned about with horse or cow manure. I think Ivermectin would impact microbes for years. We are working on some fruit trees and berries in a separate area.
I was a botany/ bio major in college (, but work in the medical field part time and home school my 6 children here on the farm ) with a long time interest in gardening ... Must have inherited it - My father grafted pecans for years and and My Great Grandfather started the now oldest continuous still operating landscape/ florist company in Texas (immigrating from Germany, He built underground brick reservoirs for catching rainwater that are still in use) Kaden the Florist in Gainesville, Texas. It is a very interesting place to tour , and they welcome visitors.
If you would like to come up some time ( and give me any suggestions) Id enjoy it - and some time if I am in East Texas, I 'd love to see your gardens . I wish I could come to the seminar , but I will look for pictures, and slides if you have them available
Sincerely,
Karen Andre MD
