Compost as Service?

I was planning to load boxes of food at the Regional Food Bank in OKC today with the crew from Journey Fellowship, but I ended up helping to create a giant compost pile! They asked Ryan if we would mind working outside and he, of course, agreed. "Working outside" meant spending the morning scooping and tossing rotten stuff onto huge compost piles.



According to the food bank web site, in fiscal year 2008, the Food Bank distributed 25 million pounds of food, enough to feed 63,600 Oklahomans every week.



Bruce Edwards, director of Urban Harvest at the food bank (King of Compost, in this photo) had us shoveling rotten pumpkins and opening hundreds of rotten banana bags onto his giant compost operation.





After we finished our slime part of the job, Bruce planned to add more leaves, soil and, his favorite part, more worms to the piles. Annalise and Kayla were the official worm assitants.





The Journey Fellowship leadership made us proud.





Papa G got a serious lifting workout.



I don't know about Haley and Diana, but I'm still scubbing banana slime out of my hair and nails.





The last toss of the day, from Angela and Scott.



I'll share more tomorrow on what Talapia have to do with urban gardening, and other exciting information I learned today.