What is compost? The process (verb) and product (noun) of items reduced to their basic components. Compost builds life and vitality based on the offering, or giving, of what came before to what comes next. Compost takes scraps of what is no longer needed, mixes them together, and creates a type of catalyst that shares a boost to bring about a healthy outcome.
When does compost go from gross to golden, from disgusting to attractive, from repulsive to requested? A pile of cast-offs transforms into soil, from something our hands throw away to material we love to touch, run our fingers through, and work into gardens with care. Compost-gone-bad has a foul smell, but with attention to correct ratios of nitrogen and carbon mixed with moisture at just the right levels and timing, there are very few off-putting odors. But this process takes patient effort and attention.
Compost benefits from stirring, a procedure that mixes. This changes the chemistry at elemental levels, which is a fancy way to…
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