It doesn’t make for very elegant photos unless you love organic gardening. And then you refer to it as “black gold”. One of our favorite spring rituals involves scooping loads of compost from the heap behind the barn and then adding it to the vegetable garden. It’s always a little humbling to see what those microorganisms can do to the veggie scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, and miscellaneous rakings from the lawn.
