Here is a photo story of our first Purple Carrot Club gathering to build the first piles of microbiological composts. We created three piles each with different mixtures of nitrogen (party food), greens and woody material. These piles are testers…we will monitor the temperature, moisture and smell…and most importantly, we will look at the soil under the microscope. Our aim is to find recipes of different types of microbiology.
It was a truly delicious day of young and old and different nationalities. Our skin and cultures maybe different, but, we came together to create in very much the same way as good bugs like to party together. We had fun and zipped and zapped together to make this happen. And, we smiled, laughed and rejoiced all feeling like this is a good thing, a very good thing!
It was wonderful to see all the smiles…as we massaged poop and mash and forest leaves and water lettuce.
we need a shelter here…due to rainy season
beer mash
we’ve now given him lotsa food
how many drops of water
the piles
toss, toss, toss..the smiles doing this were so funny
carbon tearing
we start 4 vermiculture piles
sorting our piles
buckets to measure…we need more
cutting greens
goat poo
making the compost cages
our club team
Let’s chat
recording and making notes
elders guiding
filled with goodines
tossing into the cages
building the covered space
secret soils
moisture testing and mixing
vertiver…that grows very fast here
chop, chop, chop
testing moisture
making piles
youngens helping
water lettuce dried
yum…getting hot right away
worm beds
vertiver – lots on our land
measuring ingredients
flip, flop
contemplating soil
tossing the sugar cane with water
Purple Carrot Club
Jimi’s ashes into our first, ever pile.
