The Urban Farmer's Almanac » free http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com Living the good life one patch of dirt at a time. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Steaming Pile of… http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com/2010/01/a-steaming-pile-of/ http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com/2010/01/a-steaming-pile-of/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:56:12 +0000 dan http://www.theurbanfarmersalmanac.com/?p=341

There is a post on Craigslist right now for some free composted manure in our neighborhood, so of course I’m all over that. Turns out a truckload was given to the Jesuit house up by St. Joe’s by a farm in Enumclaw, and there was a ton (probably quite literally) left over after they used all they could. When I pulled up the pile was probably 10 feet in diameter and 4 feet high. While I was filling bags and loading up the back of the car, a truck backed up. Between the two of us we barely dented the pile.

At some point, one of the residents came out and was joking about how you know the garden nerds when they are huddled around a steaming pile of manure, shoveling in the rain, and exclaiming “I can’t believe how much God loves me!”

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