Tails From The Barnyard; or, Ode To the Mighty Compost Pile - by Olive

I was helping out a friend in her garden recently, when she inadvertently gave me the idea for this article. She had just retired from work that took her all over the globe, and had bought a house close to where she grew up. It came with an extensive garden, overgrown by a couple years of neglect. We were pulling weeds and interlopers right and left, making headway in the garden, but - what to do with the trash tossed on the driveway? Why not create a compost and put the cast-offs to work? So we found a good spot out behind the house, and the start of a compost pile was born. My friend exclaimed, " Now I'm home, I have a compost pile!"

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