One Straw Archives - Midwest Permaculture

Building a Jean Pain Style Compost Pile

This past Sunday the Chicagoland Permaculture Meetup and Living Off The Grid Meetup joined forces to build a compost pile that would provide heat for the grow beds of a greenhouse.

Some of the last loads of compost to go on the pile
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