Exciting days at CSF.
CSF has, in efforts to get all the backyard beds prepped for the winter, reclaimed a bunch of 'waste' from around the neighbourhood. A sizable future-soil stockpile of sorts.
Bags of leaves, manure from the High Park zoo, worms, wooden palettes, stakes from the mayoral election signs, etc.
When you are a farmer, never-before-seen heaps and scraps start to register on your radar. Well-decayed compost, for instance, starts to look like gold.
Last week, CSF went to visit Mike, the full-time Compost Facilitator at FoodShare, at Brock and Bloor. He had his Tuesday volunteer transferring some finished compost from one bin to another. Every time the shovel sliced into the pile, it made the sound of paper ripping. Shhhhooooooooop. An amazing metal-cutting-through-good-soil sound that has taken on a strong connotation of cha-ching for one CSF member, originally as a treeplanter and now, again, as an urban farmer. As the teen volunteer shoveled this rich, dark, crumbly stuff around, we couldn't help but dream of the day when our food scraps and yard waste would look like that. Gold.
Vacant lots that are not paved - gold.
Discarded wooden palettes (potential material for compost bins) - gold.
Discarded windows (potential greenhouse siding) - gold.
Huge pile of poop at the High Park zoo - gold.
Good things are happening this week, and CSF can thank the generally glorious weather for that. We have been enriching (yak and buffalo manure), seeding (winter rye - Secale cereale) and mulching (autumn leaves) the beds in backyards all over the High Park/Junction area.
At CSF, we leaf no man behind.
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