Worm Composting Guide

This site is a great site which discusses vermiculture, or worm composting. Yummy!

Compost Guide

This is a good little informative article about composting. We will start the composting process soon in order to begin our garden proper Spring 09. That gives us a good six months to get a good pile of compost ready.

I Tell My Past Self I'm Building a Garden

My how things change.

If I could go back in time to tell my 20's-self that I was in the process of building a garden--and that I was ENJOYING it, my past self would think one of three things:

1) I had become a victim of indentured servitude.

2) I had become a farmer.

3) I had become possessed.

It might be a function of working at home, but lately it has been very nice to get outside. Perhaps this is what Morris meant by engaging in productive work. I'm not as exhausted from "the office" so I have more energy to engage in physical activity. Working out of the home seems to encourage a lifestyle centered around home-productivity. I sit at my computer; I teach Olivia a reading lesson; I grade some papers; I go and garden. My past self snickers!

Even so--there is indeed something rewarding about it all, especially since Olivia really loves to help.