Our Compost Piles

Last week it rained four days in a row. That melted all the snow and began forming a small lake in our hay field. With so many rainy days we kept the animals in their pens and needless to say they went stir crazy. When the rain finally let up we released the goats and donkeys into the barn corral and they jumped, skipped and ran for joy. I don't blame them. Since we were in the barn and it was a mess from four days of occupation Marco and I began the process of de-mucking the barn. The donkey poo that piled up in the barn is grade A fertilizer and will be gratefully used in our gardens this spring. We had one compost pile next to the barn which we'd been working on since first getting goats two years ago. We began a new pile by the barn in which we threw all the barn muck and the poo and hay that accumulated in the corral over the winter.
Once the ground has thawed we will begin spreading the compost onto our gardens and turning it into the soil with our tractor. It is wonderful planning our gardens, feeling the warm breeze of oncoming spring and finally seeing the ground after a snow-filled winter.