Yesterday Wilfrieda and I go to Grounds for Hope to check out the feasibility of putting rabbits out there, and we decide it's possible, but while we are there, something interesting happens. There is an unused field next to Grounds for Hope and the women plant things there. They had harvested something or weeded something and one of the women had a pile of stuff she was going to burn. I looked at it and thought "what a waste, it should be composted." About two minutes later, Wilfrieda starts talking to her and in 2 minutes has her convinced. Wilfrieda asked something about having good soil and the other woman said no. Then Wilfrieda gave a blurb about compost and a minute explanation about it and the woman very quickly was putting dirt on top of the smoldering pile of organic matter making a compost pile instead of burning it.
The pile survived because this picture was taken today. Or I should say, the pile almost survived. About two hours after this picture was taken I saw a women (I don't know if it was the same one or not) pull off the dirt, and about 5 minutes later, the delightfully sickening smell of smoldering organic matter that is not dry at all fills the air. It almost worked, but kudos to Wilfrieda for her excellent description and guide to compost, and negative kudos to the woman who took something apart that had potential just to get rid of it and ignore the long term benefits compost represents.
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