1/ so you're proposing that instead of harvesting crops and shipping them off to people, instead compost the crops in the field? the reason we use artificial fertilizers is because (a) we REMOVE NITROGEN when we harvest, and (b) nitrogen also leaches out into air and water https://twitter.com/BarnabasDull/status/1479188801440256001 …
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3/ folks are asking for details I used pea-and-oat-mix as the cover crop https://www.johnnyseeds.com/farm-seed/cover-crop-mixes/peas-and-oats-mix-organic-cover-crop-seed-3685G.36.html … and bacterial innoculant https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/inoculants/garden-combination-inoculant-9321.0.html … in a rotation between sunflowers and pumpkins in various years (my rotation game is weak; need to do better / more scientific)
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More land intensive, yes, but depending on constraints can be handy alternative. It's cool that you tried a legume rotation! Obviously the holy grail would be to find some legume or pairing with it to have equivalent yield in value.
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Perhaps pairing with a more skilled / labor intensive cash crop which won't interfere with overall letting the soil rest / actively improving it? Bit of a unicorn match and perhaps not scalable but I could see as small scale or experimental farm perhaps.
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