The ArchDruid is talking composting this week. He has a tremendous number of people commenting on his blog and it makes good reading. This comment interested me:
" There are some who would say the soul is cover crops. Some of these make as little compost as they can get away with, preferring that as many calories as possible go into the soil food web in place rather than being burned up within the pile.
I realize, though, that that is an advanced topic. I'm a long way from nurturing a soil ecosystem vibrant enough to gracefully digest all my organic waste where plants are also growing, and maybe I'll never get there, but it is the ideal.
Unrelated to that, I was pleasantly surprised this winter to see slender salamanders in my compost pile. I had been happy about the healthy population of centipedes, just knowing that there must be a healthy variety of prey for them, but I have no idea how salamanders found their way through the streets of Oakland to become my neighbors. I really felt blessed."
Joel
2 comments:
I think that should read soil and not soul - but it could be soul which would make Joel an interesting chap.
You're probably right anon, but it's a happy mistake to make.
We could have a 'Soul and Health Association"!
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