poop to veggies

Finally, we've reaped our first season's backyard bounty, grown in soil fortified with super-compost from our humanure, yard clippings, kitchen scraps, straw and sawdust pile. Oh, and there's a little junk mail and cardboard in there too, and even a very ripe octopus, which was rescued from a trash bin and put to better use in our pile. The pile was added to for around a year, then let rot for another. Since this was our own personal pile, we didn't bother testing the finished compost for pathogenic activity, as we shall with the contents of Humble Pile's blue barrels. We did a sight and smell test: dark, with a very lovely dusky soil scent.

pile beginning:


pile full!


first radishes:


first beans:


first beet!