Collecting Gold - Part 1

We went to an Organic dairy farm to collect some lovely cow pats for our compost on Sunday evening. We had never done this before and had no idea what to expect but an imagination of happy growing plants in our garden.

So Matt and I each armed with a pair of gum boots, gloves, a spade, containers and sacks zoomed off to the farm 20 minutes away. Oh and not to mention the overalls as armor from the dung.

At the farm, we soon found that fresh dung is pretty wet and not very pretty to behold and touch. We quickly filled up our containers with the fresh dung. We then went in search for dried dung in the paddock to fill the sacks.

I went off down the side of the fence in search of dung, while Matt went out into the middle of the paddock. He figured out pretty quickly that the best place to find dried cow pats is around where the cows shelter from the sun or are herded as they get nervous and start dropping oodles of the stuff right there! The dried cow pats are surprising odourless and easy to handle. 3 quarter of an hour later, we had 2 containers and 5 sacks of GOLD for the garden.

I'll continue in another post why all the hassle with cow pats...