Last week, I got a call out of the blue from a neighbor (out here, ten miles away is still considered a neighbor) who drove by our place and saw the huge pile of wood chips out front that the tree trimming guy brought by.

Seems this fellow has several large piles (I'd guess maybe 8-10 cubic yards each) of old rotting hay. It's the leftovers after the cows trample a round bale to death, which he scoops up into piles and lets it compost naturally.

I guess the pile of woodchips marked us as people who might be interested in accumulating organic material, so he called to see if we wanted to haul it away for him. I was expecting it to just be moldy hay, but it's mostly beautiful finished #compost! I dragged this trailer full to my place yesterday, and if it passes the bean test for persistent herbicides, I'll go back for more.

They moral of the story is, it pays to advertise. A pile of mulch is as good as a billboard if what you're wanting to communicate is "fertility welcome here"...

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