Having grazing livestock also helps us remediate the community garden. We can use the chicken manure to remediate the soil the goats live on and vice versa. Here, we use grazing to balance out our livestock ecosystem. Most people don’t have livestock on their properties and those that do probably don’t graze their animals.
What role does remediation play in raising livestock on the property? Goat milk is also good for fertile soil and we have that as well. We bag both and have options to sell that to community gardens and farms on the West Side and beyond. We have chicken and goat options (both are amazing materials for the soil). Having livestock, you get manure options you don’t normally get. How does remediation impact your operations on the farm? There is cement beneath that land in the community garden, so a raised bed of soil needed to be created. They incorporated burlap in order to help seal in moisture. I know that process involved a process similar to the lasagna composting method we used. In the community garden we manage, they had to remediate that land. We only have to do this to the entire property once a year and that’s all it needs.
We layer grass clippings, food waste, manure, leaves, newspaper, and we top it off with soil to seal it all in. We do a yearly remediation process called lasagna composting.
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