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Hacienda Alta Gated Community -- South of Rancho Del Paso

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Rancho del Paso (RDP)

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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 and produces a lovely product, perfect for soil 
amendment/fertilization.
Fully shredded and ready to go in your garden.  
Top dress your plants, 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.
Available for just 100 pesos per bag. 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 for the stables.  
If no one answers, that means he's out of earshot of the buzzer, 
so call his cell 331 843 1145  and say "composto".
DELIVERY: If you order 20 - 30 bags (costales), we'll deliver them 
for free, anywhere from Vista del Lago out to the Racquet Club. 
250 pesos delivery charge for fewer than 20 costales
Prices:
  • 100 pesos per bag 
  • 250 pesos delivery charge for fewer than 20 costales
  • If you buy 20 to 30 costales, the delivery fee is waived
  • We also offer a 10 peso discount per bag for un-ground compost: 
It is a bit lumpy but is the same fine aged and dried product which 
we then grind to a finer and more consistent appearance. 
Let us know if you want the discounted un-ground product
and we will bag it up for you. 

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/

The compost goddess
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.
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: Four 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 fall within our standard 17 - 18 kilos per bag weight.


A Paso Poop factory at work, gathering raw materials.

PROCESSING

  • Four composting bins, each with 4 aeration tubes, are filled one by one
  • Pile temperature and moisture are monitored on regular basis
  • Once the compost is ready, we shred it using our professional Paso Poop Processing machine
  • The final product is loaded into large "costales" bags, weighing 17 - 18 kilos each.



One of the 4 compost aging bins
Moisture and temperature monitoring
The old Paso Poop Processor, now superseded by a professional grinding machine

F I N I S H I N G

COMPOSTED POOP



- - - - - -BEFORE PROCESSING - - -- - - - - - - - AFTER PROCESSSING- - - - - - -

Bagged and ready to go. Genuine Processed Paso Poop.  Use it in your garden as a natural fertilizer, soil amendment, or mulch.


Upgrade to composting facilities  

With the stables full of horses, and an expanding demand for 

our compost, we decided it was time to upgrade the composting 

facilities:

  • Increase the height of the existing composting bins
  • Add a fourth bin
  • Change the lids for the bins to polycarbonate material
  • Framed in anodized aluminum
  • New, longer aeration pipes fixed in each bin

New, taller bins and aeration pipes
Javier Rodriguez, ranch manager, inserting new boards for the front of the bins
Measuring for the new lids on the compost bins
New lid securely in place, framed in bronze-color anodized aluminum