We rely heavily on composting on our “homestead” to provide good, nutrient-rich soil, and to reduce the amount of garbage we haul out on our backs to take to the dump.
A good, large compost heap should continue to “cook” through the winter in most parts of our country, but we often have long periods when the pile stops working; the outer layers freeze several times every winter.
I’ve recently made peace with this process. Continue reading
About a week before Christmas, we strapped on snowshoes to hike the trail.
We have not needed snowshoes much the past couple of years. In fact, we didn’t really need them that day. We only used them to help pack the trail ahead of the next freeze, so that we’d have a fairly good track, relatively free of obstructions and deep boot prints—post holes—that a hiker can slip into, possibly twisting an ankle, or worse (see Going “Posthole”). Continue reading
