There’s a Party in my Compost and Everyone’s Invited!

As anyone who knows me knows, I get really excited about compost. It’s just heaps of fun. So, with a new homestead to set up, I enjoyed spending some quality time with my honey this past weekend working outside and getting the pallet compost bins built to hold the beginnings of an amazing compost pile. We rounded up all the weeds and trimmings from clearing the garden and berry bushes, and layered that with lovely wood ashes, chopped up blackberry canes, decomposing leaves, various gnawed bones left by the past occupant’s dog, coffee grounds and old compost from a bin by the barn. As soon as I get the chicken coop cleaned this week I’ll add a little manure and some more leaves, bring some cocoa bean husk home from work, sprinkle it with a little water here and there, and voila! We will have compost.

It’s a seriously magical process, folks.

I found this leftover sign from the housewarming when I was cardboard sheet mulching, and decided to hang it up to let all those microorganisms and decomposers know that there was a party going on in our compost pile to which they were all invited. With my birthday right around the corner, it seemed right to just keep the good times rolling and make it known that there’s a party in the compost bin and we’re serving up some delicious decomposition cake!