Lap 4

Mother Nature is still deciding if spring is coming early or if Old Man Winter is hanging on for dear life. Her indecisive behavior has continued to put regular laps on hold for now.

This week, my lap focused on coop clearing and composting. Our lovely chickens are essential to the health of our garden. With their manure, affectionately coined garden gold, we have had great success with the plants we have put in the ground these last few years. However, the amount of garden gold they help create greatly surpasses the amount we need to keep our garden growing.

So, we have expanded our compost pile. After a lap on the still quite soggy and saturated trail, I went back and forth from coop to pile adding future garden gold and replacing it with fresh sawdust for our girls to enjoy.

If you’d like some garden gold of your own and don’t want to add chickens, let me know. We will most definitely share. :)