This page is a form of compost heap. I am at the moment in the process of breaking down and reconfiguring experiences from my work with soil and composting for the past couple of years. We are in the warm composting phase, where things change quite fast, right now. So no text is fixed. No layout is final. I hope you will enjoy the process with me.
Making soil in your home, workplace or neighbourhood, is a very practical way of doing something to repair a tired planet, nurturing plants and millions of microbes you can’t even see, as well as nurturing yourself and the people around you. There are more organisms in a handful of soil than there are people on earth. You are working closely with these communities of microbes to create new soil. You will get to know them even if you can’t see them. They may warm you, break the organic matter down slowly or fast, depending on who is in charge. You will smell them, you may learn which enzymatic activity creates which smell, feel the changing textures, from liquid to dry, crumbly parts, depending on what is being broken down, how much oxygen there is, how humid it is.
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