I'm back from my trip to Yellowstone and finally catching up on the blog. We got caught in a buffalo-jam while they crossed right in front of our car. They were close enough to touch. Boy, are they big and fast. I was so glad no one did something dumb to get them upset like honking or touch the babies.
I have a couple of Workshare days to catch-up on. The first weekend Michelle Crandell and her boyfriend flipped the compost for the first time - yeah! - This is really tough work - thank you! On July 8th Brett Sloan and I flipped it again. It had cooked down a little, but it really had a terrible ammonia smell - the smell of valuable nitrogen escaping. Next time I will put in far more dry brown matter. Brett, you are a trooper! Lynn Siverts, Enid Van de Walker, and Anne Knoll weeded. Paulina Mundkowski worked in the orchard. The next week Lynn and Brett came again and Brett turned the compost with me again! It had definitely cooked down, and the smell was far more bearable, but still bad. It was hot to the touch. David Pinter tended the current compost by adding brown leaves on top of the green vegetable matter. Tim Towns tended the bees.
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