Moving wood chips

A healthy garden starts with healthy soil, and composting goes a long way toward building healthy soil.  The four main ingredients in a compost pile are air (from the atmosphere), water (which falls as rain), nitrogen (in the form of food waste and chicken manure), and carbon (in the form of wood chips).  Today we moved part of our wood chip pile closer to our compost bins, so it's easier to add carbon to our compost pile.

Cecil shovels wood chips into the wheel barrow.

Terrence dumps the wood chips near the compost bins.

 An added benefit of moving the wood chip pile is that the chickens get to eat the worms, insects, and other organisms that make their homes in the pile.  They also add their manure directly to the wood chips, so that when they are added to the compost piles, it already has chicken manure incorporated.