GATHERING BLACK GOLD

It's black gold time at The Birdnest Inn!  As a dedicated organic gardener, I cherish this time of year!  It's time to build up compost piles (black gold) to use in  gardening over the next few years. I started the compost piles in February, locating them out of sight behind the chicken coop.  There are three stacks---leaves, which compost the fastest, pine straw, which is much slower to break down, and a stack of large limbs/deadfall.  It's truly sad and depressing to see so many plastic bags full of leaves ready to be picked up to go to a landfill.  Mine are too large to place in bins, but it is simple to buy or build a compost bin and make your own black gold!