Rancho del Paso Garden Compost, Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico

GENUINE "PASO POOP" 100% NATURAL COMPOST

FOR SALE: Genuine hot composted "Paso Poop" from 100%

natural aged horse manure. No weeds, no seeds, no smell.

Great mulch, soil conditioner and fertilizer.

The "hot composting" process kills any weed seeds or insect

eggs and manure odors; it produces a lovely product, perfect for soil

amendment/fertilization. We first developed this composting

process to create soil amendment and mulch for our own

gardens; we now offer it for sale to other Lakeside gardeners.

Fully shredded and ready to go in your garden.

Top dress your plants or your lawn, use as mulch, or dig into your soil.

1 bag covers 4-6 sqare feet when used as mulch, and double the

amount when using as a soil amendment.

Compost made from Horse manure has 3 macronutrients – nitrogen,

phosphorus and potassium, and 3 secondary nutrients – calcium,

magnesium and sodium, as well as other micronutrients.

Neutral pH.

Price: Available for just 120 pesos per bag.

Each "costal" bag of compost weighs roughly 12 -14 kg.

If you would like some of this wonderful stuff to kick-start your garden,

please drop by the Rancho, or for big orders email us at:

RDPLakeChapala@hotmail.com

PICKUP AT RANCHO: Our ranch manager Javier Rodriguez can

help you anytime weekdays 8 am - 5:30 pm, Saturday 8 am - 1 pm

and Sunday 8 am - 11 am. Just ring the buzzer at the entrance gate to

"Rancho del Paso".

If no one answers, that means he's out of earshot of the buzzer,

so call his cell 331 843 1145 and say "composto". Here is the

Google maps link for Rancho del Paso

DELIVERY: We offer “curbside only delivery” to our customers although

we’ll be happy to carry it into your garage for you, if we

can pull up into the driveway to offload.

Delivery to only one single address.

If you order 20 - 25 bags (costales), we'll deliver them curbside

for free, anywhere from Vista del Lago out to the Racquet Club.

300 pesos delivery charge for fewer than 20 costales.

Prices:

120 pesos per large costal bag

300 pesos delivery charge for fewer than 20 costales

If you buy 20 to 25 costales, the delivery fee is waived
No delivery fee of course if you come pick them up

Please save the empty compost bags and let us know when
we can come pick them up! Empty bags are often hard to find.

"Composted horse manure is a great slow-release soil nutrient

for a garden,” says Caitlin Price Youngquist, PhD, a soil scientist

& an Extension educator for the University of Wyoming, in Worland.

https://thehorse.com/17205/9-steps-for-composting-horse-manure/

and here is an article which discusses top-dressing your lawn with

compost:

https://www.milorganite.com/blog/Lawn/how-naturally-feed-your-lawn-topdressing-compost

This is what a bag of Paso Poop compost/mulch looks like. Does not include the model or the pillow.

The Paso Poop Story at RDP -- Composting Basics

STABLES: RPD has 10 stalls with adjoining 12’ X 22' private paddocks, plus an overflow foaling/quarantine pen. As horses are wont to do, they eat all day, and produce the raw materials for our compost all night. Raw manure is picked out of the stalls and paddocks twice/day, and carefully deposited in our composting bins, where it bakes until it has turned into odorless, weed and insect free compost.

HORSE FACILITIES: Grass turn out areas, carefully rotated and irrigated to maintain green grass year round. The horse are on the pastures several hours a day. In addition they get high quality hay, alfalfa, oat chaff, chia and flax seeds for their Omega 3s, and the underweight ones get a little bit of grain every morning and evening. These are the raw ingredients which become our compost.

COMPOSTING AREAS: Five large composting bins have been been built at the rancho. Each is covered and has permanent air tubes installed to ensure good air circulation throughout the pile of compost that is aging in the bin. The stacks are monitored for temperature and moisture level for 6-9 weeks, until the material is fully composted.

PROCESSING: RDP has recently purchased a professional grinding machine for our custom built Paso Poop processing system, to fully shred and grind the composted manure into consistent fertilizer / mulch / soil amendment product. In additional, we now have a professional weighing setup, to ensure that our big costal bags all meet our standard 15 kilos per bag weight, when the bags are filled. Bags sitting in inventory will continue to dry, losing some weight and moisture as they age. Same great compost, though!

A Paso Poop factory at work, gathering raw materials.

PROCESSING

Five composting bins, each with 4 aeration tubes, are filled one by one
Pile temperature and moisture are monitored on a regular basis
Once the compost has finished cooking, we shred it using our professional Paso Poop Processing machine
The final product is loaded into large "costales" bags, weighing roughly 13 kilos each.