Two More Compost Recipes

October 20^th, 2011

This first recipe replaces micro-organisms in the soil and should be applied before sowing seeds. The one ingredient some might have a hard time finding in the United States is ghee (a type of clarified butter). I'm sure a way to clarify plain old butter can probably be found with a simple Internet search.

Ingredients

1L – milk

250g – ghee (a type of clarified butter)

1L – curd

½ kg – jaggery (or sugar cane or honey)

3kg – cow dung (from a female cow)

5L – cow urine

6 bananas

Method

Mix all ingredients and let sit for 12 days. After sitting the mixture can be mixed in 200L water, sprayed on the field, and turned into the soil.

The next mixture, which we actually prepare here at Bija Vidyapeeth is one of the worst smells I've ever smelled in my life, but if its good for the soil, I will appreciate it. I'm not guaranteeing the first one smells that great either.

Ingredients

10L – animal dung

10L – animal urine

1kg – jaggery

2kg – lentil powder

handful of good soil

Method

Mix the following ingredients in a 200L barrel for a total of five minutes. Make sure to cover the container. Within three days the mixture will start to boil and smell bad – that means its working. Before five days the mixture must be applied to the field through the irrigation system. This mixture is enough for one acre of land.