Name That Pile!
Working outside in the garden today I started to realize that in this journal I often use words that I picked up at Growing Power. Sometimes I explain them and sometimes I do not. In fact even the words ‘Growing Power’ are not familiar with everyone unless they have visited the place or been a regular reader of the diary. So I thought that I need to start defining some of the terms, like ‘tea’, ‘coir’, ‘castings’, ‘worm depository’, ‘worm condo’ and such. On the site G.R.A.F some of the words are explained but not all. I will start defining the terms on the G.R.A.F site tomorrow or the next day or next day.
One pile I was working on today, however, has no name given it by Growing Power. It is full of worm-enriched soil from the pots, buckets, boxes and pails I was using this summer for growing. It started mostly as compost with worms with a topping of coir and castings. However, during the summer the worms have enriched the compost so now the soil is mostly, but not all castings. So this new pile I am building is not compost and not castings. It is similar to the worm depository but not the same. In building the pile from the insides of planters I added some extra green (plants) and brown (leaves) material so that the surviving worms in this pile will have something to munch on during the winter months. Can you think of a good Growing Power kind of name for this new pile?
This new creation of names reminds me how this way of growing is in some ways the same old, same old but in many ways new. We need this new vocabulary to describe this old way of Growing Renewable Affordable Food (G.R.A.F.).
Today I did some catch-up on the Nonviolent Worm site but still have more to do on this site and on the Milwaukee Renaissance sites I work on. Getting the balance between the Growing Power side and power of nonviolence side is a learning experience. Tomorrow after church, making a St. Vincent De Paul call and the Green Bay Packers game — all religious duties — I hope to get some time to add a few definitions to the growing power vocabulary list and to play catch-up on some of the sites. But I’d better not ignore working on the garden, inside and outside, before the cold weather makes it impossible.
However, I have no excuses for not getting something important done and feel nothing but gratitude for the wonderful friends I have made via of the Power of Growing and Power of Nonviolence. As my friend Godsil says, “I offer you ten thousand thanks yous.”
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