Reddit reviews The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food
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Tell us more about the soil and what kinds of crops it was used for, how often it was left fallow, and so on.
Failing that, my $0.02:
Personally, I'd go for a soil analysis for the ten bucks it'd cost you. Aiming for a nutrient-balanced soil at this point might be more valuable than adding horse poop. Knowing what the soil is deficient in will give you a much better sense of what to add, and how much.
I highly recommend Steve Solomon's book, The Intelligent Gardener if you're at all interested in balancing your soil.
> i’d love to learn more
An honest answer for an honest question:
[For the non-farming gardener - all about soil] (https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Gardener-Growing-Nutrient-Dense/dp/0865717184) Save your $ and give your library card some exercise.
[tl;dr summary] (http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/biblio/fulltext/t1860.pdf)
[Informative & you may find interesting. The prices are for hard copies, the links bring up the actual materials.] (https://eap.mcgill.ca/General/eap_ind.htm)
[Everything related to farming everywhere] (http://www.fao.org/home/en/) Warning - some reports contradict each other - it's a very large organization with different research/reports coming to different conclusions.
If you don't understand how livestock fits into the system (which you don't, sorry, but its obvious) then you end up making suggestions which look, how to put this politely, woefully uninformed.