I'm glad I asked this here. A lot of good information. I guess my friend was on the right track with the leaves as it would add organic matter. I did think about buying some round hay bales I saw that were sitting out for about 3 years. Bust them up a bit and grind them up with the bush hog. I wonder what you'd have to pay for those. The pit was carved out of rolling glacial hills and mounds. A civil engineer told me once that they probably mined about 1/2+ million yards out of it. Probably can't do much deep tillage as there are a lot of boulders - some of them 5 foot+ in diameter. Below is a photo that shows the floor of the pit and the cliff where they mined it out to the property line. Cliff on that side is about 30' high and varies around the pit from about 15' to the 30' you see. But it does drain on one end so no way to put in a pond. They must have piled up some black dirt in about a half acre area as it is good black soil there and I have a deer plot there. The green you see is turnip. I will look into other sources of leaves, grass clippings, even wood chips too. I will also get a soil sample and send it to the Univ of Minn and see what they say it needs. This is a long term project for sure. Thanks to all for your advice.
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