Poop Happens
“Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms,
and you can’t hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.”
- Buckminster Fuller
“The main characteristic of Nature’s farming can therefore be summed up
in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock;
she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil
and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted
into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes
of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large
reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both
plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.”
- Sir Albert Howard, An Agricultural Testament, 1940
I have been very busy turning manure into the empty vegetable gardens, scattering fertilizer 16-16-16 on shrubs and vegetables, and seeding and fertilizing lawns in preparation for the rainstorm coming on Sunday night.