Community Discussion: EPA and Bristol Bay

gathering materials for winter

We have been raking and bagging leaves and grass clippings in anticipation of winter time.  Our hope and goal is to make enough dirt to fill one raised bed, simply by composting during the winter months.  We have a warm spot in the basement where we have begun to use as a staging area, that will be used to store the composting material in enclosed Rubbermaid totes.  Our ingredients will consist of: shredded paper, dead leaves, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and probably some ash from the steam bath.  The weather is remarkably mild for this time of year.  It has been raining for the past couple of days, and now it is breezy and overcast.  We are going over to Liboffville to turn some more dirt over to prepare for expanding our pseudo-community garden over there in the spring.