Today in the orchard
Cammy, Skylar and I spent much of the day dismantling the gardens and building a new compost pile. Sometimes it seems as though all we do is build compost piles and then dismantle them. That’s actually a good thing as we spend very little money on fertilizer. The vast majority of it—the fertilizer—gets made right here. That’s one of things I admire most about biodynamics. While not a strict practitioner myself, I do aspire to many of their tenants, one being the closed loop on the farm, that is, using and producing everything right on site. Beginning (and ending) with compost. (By the way, who actually “makes” the compost really? is it the worms? The microbes? The rain? The wind? The sun? All of the above?) We also picked more apples today, including Blue Pearmain and Starkey. The Blue Pearmains are insanely beautiful this year, with their purple skin and their electric orange cavity.