New agroforestry beds

the gunny sacks would work but you might need more then 3 months for the compost to finish and be plantable the biggest risk in planting in pure compost is it not being finished yet and heating up ..in the gunny sack method i would  mix the compost with something else before use to help reduce the chance it will go off again

my favorite way of filling raised beds is the hugelkultur method … start with large pieces of wood, logs and sticks and such on the very bottom to take up space and retain water, back fill with whatever organic material you might have wood chips ,saw dust, cut grass, unfinished compost pretty much anything to fill in spaces between large wood and fill the bed, add moisture to this layer, using JMS here is a good way to get microbes going in this mid layer, reserve the top 8-10 in (20-25 cm) and fill with a mixture of compost, IMO4 and biochar FMCs also work really good here can also add some bulking substrates in the soil mix like coco coir or peat moss maybe some perlite, if you need to bulk out the soil mix (this is the soil mix i used to bulk out all my garden beds)  …top dress with IMO4, water in with Soil Prep Formula and plant  …depending on how deep the raised beds are you might need to dig down a little for layer 1 …. hugelkultur is a mounding system at its roots and the mound planting might also work well in agroforestry

Happy Experimenting

Hi Dagoofman,

Thanks so much for all your suggestions, really appreciate it.  This community is amazing!

Ive always been a little apprehensive of planting trees with logs underneath but perhaps if we dont use too many, only here and there it will really help to fill the beds.  Ill definitely try and let you know how it goes. Im going to fill the beds nice and high with off cut wood sides, so they dont collapse at the sides.  Ill defitely be adding JMS and IMO4.  Havent managed to get biochar going yet but will give it a try soon.