Tracy,
You have apparently a plot of highly degraded "farmed out" land. The best long term advise I can give you is use animals to heal the land. Set up something like Joel Salatin did to heal his hardscrabble farm, but scaled to your size. You might even take a weekend drive up to his farm to talk with him about it personally for some tips.
Short term I agree with Drew. But long term, best way to improve soil health is with animals.
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“As the small trickle of results grows into an avalanche — as is now happening overseas — it will soon be realized that the animal is our farming partner and no practice and no knowledge which ignores this fact will contribute anything to human welfare or indeed will have any chance either of usefulness or of survival.” Sir Albert Howard
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"When farmers view soil health not as an abstract virtue, but as a real asset, it revolutionizes the way they farm and radically reduces their dependence on inputs to produce food and fiber." -USDA
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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