Cooking

It occurred to me that I do a lot of cooking and cleaning.  I'm not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.  I'm in the barn cleaning stalls, and cooking compost at the cabana, every day cooking and cleaning.  The pregnant part is done and Mini Manure Connoisseur is with me supervising along the way.  By the way, he is a little less mini now, he just turned one!

The turning bin (see last post if confused) maintained it's temp close to 150, this is good.  We moved it to a cabana spot.  Photos are below.  I took the temp this morning and it's 142*, which I'm happy with since it's cooked long enough to be clean but is still doing it's stuff and decomposing more, this is also good.

This is the first Spring Java Gold Compost  has been available in bags.  It has been an awesome spring.  I have met wonderful gardeners who care that I CARE about the stuff they are putting in their garden.  Of course, I'm looking forward to meeting many more happy and conscientious gardeners.  Production is keeping up well, and with every pile I pick, I enjoy the "harvest" of manure more as we make excellent compost with it.  I really like our latest batch, the consistency is appealing, it might just be our best looking batch yet, we'll see.  I'm breaking into it this week for a new customer.

Mini napping nearby (in the red stroller) while we get ready to empty out the turning bin and put the compost into the manure cabana:

Getting a steaming scoop out:

Settling it into the cabana bin:

Steamy...

Dumping another scoop from the turning bin into the cabana:

I check on Mini, he's snoozing away.

We placed the aeration tubes in, fill it more, etc.

top it off, even it out, and put this batch to bed. 

 The turning bin, empty: