Today was the first time I’d turned my compost pile since sometime back in 2007. I just assumed there had not been much activity in there, what with the winter freezes and all. But apparently my earthworms couldn’t wait to get started. With the first shovelful I uncovered a swarming mess of them, hard at […]
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As promised, I spent some time chopping an entire case of celery I found on the sidewalk recently and turned it into my compost pile. In fact, this seemed like a good time to turn the whole pile, shoveling it from one bin into a neighboring bin, tossing in the celery as I went along. […]
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Neighbors might have thought it strange, a man wheeling bags of leaves and grass clippings up the sidewalk. But in my travels yesterday, I noticed a landscaping crew cleaning the area around a huge apartment complex down the street. There were at least six workers busy mowing grass and blowing leaves and the sight of […]
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