Welcome Kate and greetings to all in the great
Permie community -
I am looking forward to buying and reading Kate's book on composting. I am fascinated by the process of decomposition and how material gained from this process helps the no till process build and sustain good healthy soil. I have to say that I am not a
compost purist and in spite of my errant ways I still end up with nice broken down organic material that I can amend my soil and it seems to help things grow. I just don't have the time or physical
energy it takes to devote to turning the material in my bins as frequently as I
should. But the fact that I fill my bins and stock-pile organic material and it all breaks down and gives me what appears to be a great product I am rewarded even though not working at it as hard as I should. I have to imagine that the bio-community in my soil doesn't turn their nose up to the decomposed material I offer or check to see if it went through the right process. I have even started to skip putting the kitchen plant based waste right into the compost beds and instead add them right to my planting beds. While this tends to not look good (except to the bio-community that say come on in the
water's fine) but it changes quickly and most of it you don't recognize soon after it goes on the beds. I know I will learn even more about composting from Kate's book and look forward to it.
Cheers
Mike Love
Central Maryland, USA
