Making More Dirt: Compost Management

Reader Contribution by Bethann Weick
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The birch leaves are falling, convincing the beech to follow suit, and the sugar maples are showing off their brilliant reds and golden hues.  The evening breeze is reliably cool, and the mornings are laden with dew.  The autumnal night is arriving quicker and quicker; the days, shortened, are filled with the hurry for winter. 

Even as the end of this growing season is suddenly, rapidly in sight, the preparations for the next one are in front of us. 

Compost.

In these cool mornings, the steam from our scattered compost piles is easily visible, a wispy indication of the powerful, perpetual decomposition process transpiring within each mound of compost.  Each pile is full of microbial action.  Having been turned through the summer, our compost is active and alive. 

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