Compost piles, garden broken down

The more we do to get the house ready for sale, the more we realize there is so much more to do. Painting, downsizing, preparing the yard -- it seems as if we'll never be done. I'm grateful to have help. Today, my friend Jeremy came to help break down two compost bins and a hugelkulture garden. We loaded about 5 wheelbarrows of compost and a wheelbarrow of soil into his trailer before we ran out of time. He'll use the material in his yard, which is part wildflower meadow, part grove, and made up of mostly native Central Texas plants. Jeremy also took 3 of my 9 compost bins, but not before finding some interesting critters living off of the decomposing organic material.

About a yard of compost sits in my friend Jeremy's trailer, partially obscuring two compost bins he'll put to use in his yard. One is a cone shaped composter, commonly called an earth tower, and the other is a modular cube Rubbermaid used to make. They've served me well over the years converting tons of food waste, chicken litter, and other organic material into some of the most nutritious plant food around.