We put up the fence poles last week right before Thanksgiving, and we cleared out some bushes.  The bushes are still in this picture, but the space is definetly opening up.  Our 7 compost piles are working well.  It is nice to be able to turn them with the front-end-loader and watch the steam rise from the center of the piles.  When the steam rises you know the heat is doing its job.  I have been reading a book called “Micro Eco-Farming”.  It this book it talks about the importance of composting in replenishing the minerals and micro-organisims in the soil.  This makes me feel better about what we are doing.  The mention that adding sea Kelp vastly improves the mineral replenishment of the soil, and they talk about people seeing drastically larger results from using this material in the compost.  I can’t wait to find some and try it out.