Compost Rows Pre-Dung
Today I prepared the two compost rows that new cow dung will be dumped on with more worms to make more castings. Not able to find the pitchfork I shoveled the compost from last year into two rows, noticing that there were many worms that had wintered in the leftovers from last year. Soon we will ask the dairy farmer to dump a new load of cow manure on the piles, and adding some more worms will start the casting-making process once more.
For now the rows are marked by some stones. I would like to build a rock wall around the two rows and build some type of canopy over the rows to protect them from the sun. My oldest grandson said he would care for the compost-to-castings rows again this year. He hopes that this year we can bag some of the castings and sell them in Milwaukee. He is more motivated by the profit motive than I. Making money or not, we will be sure to have some valuable fertile soil for growing from our efforts.
In India they talk about “Mother Earth” and “Mother Cow”. The earth and a cow are ‘mother’ for Indians because they provide so much of what we need, fertile soil to grow, medicine, milk, products and for some of us meat.
These two rows of composted earth await fresh cow dung. With the earth of ‘mother earth’ and the dung of ‘mother cow’ the worm will turn these two roles into fertile soil to grow new life.
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