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Mushrooms in the compost?

How long did it just rain for?  It felt like forever. I had just moistened the compost pile hours earlier, unaware it was about to storm for a day straight. As a result, the pile went from kind of wet to soaking wet, and I discovered these cool little mushrooms growing in the pile. Mushrooms are simply an indicator of wet conditions in the pile, and it can be corrected by simply adding dry brown materials. However, mushrooms are just a part of nature and nothing to worry about.  If it gets a bit warmer, it could become a haven for bugs, so I'm going to add a new layer of leaves this weekend for sure.

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working on my book…

It's been a rough winter this year, and for this reason and a few others I haven't felt like making any videos. Now that I'm starting to thaw out, I have some that I'd like to make and hopefully I can finish my e-book, too. I've been sluggishly writing an e-book for a while now, on and off, stop and start, but I'm finally nearing completion. While there's a few great books out there on composting, I think they could be scaled down into something much more concise... forget the science stuff, we know that composting just happens.  My eyes tend to glaze over the chapters about microbial activity and carbon to nitrogen ratios, and rightfully so. It's interesting stuff, but I totally understand that it isn't interesting to most…

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