Friends, romans, countrymen, may I present to you... my compost. Living, breathing soil in just three weeks. What began as thistles, rotten veggies and election advertising (hmm... striking similarities there) is now good brown stuff that smells great and is going to make things GROW... And I've finished off my slightly dysfunctional but ultimately successful How to: make Compost series over in our resources page.
Can i just add that this post is a bit late due to a bunch of Permaculture courses we've been running in Sydney and here at Milkwood - most noticeably the 'Designing Water into Landscape' earthworks course last week which was a hoot... So the compost has, infact, been finished for weeks... it lies in wait for the formation of the Kitchen garden, a thing of beauty which will be constructed from January onwards...
We are off to wash the dust from our overalls in the ocean for a week. Some swimming, reading, eating and fishing, and a little bit of headspace to gee-up for the next year at Milkwood.
Thanks so much to all for your help and comments this year! The whole process has been both very exciting and rather tricky so far... it really is so different from where we were a year ago. Challenging (actually, terrifying) at times and sublime at other times, I wouldn't be anywhere else for all the tea in China.
And a year from now.. who knows? Hopefully we'll be pulling yabbies and fresh-water crayfish from the dam and making plum pudding from feral fruit while resting under shady boughs, surrounded by friends, ducks, chikens and goats.
Happy holidays to all and we'll be back shortly...
Happy holidays to you too and I look forward to reading all about your progress over the next year. So thrilling to see things take shape (especially when we are planning on doing much the same thing, but not for a couple of years).
Does anybody know about this site ( www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is, is it credible? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org...ted-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than say WWF site? Fill me in
I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, but they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon while another test gave me like 15 tons? I think I trust earthlab.coms test a little more (because my score is lower). Does anyone know about any other tests?
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