Chipping the Orchard Piles

Remember all of those piles of stuff that we made back in the spring? Well, we're finally getting around to them. (Some of them, anyway.)

Our friend, co-worker, and fellow organic high-altitude gardener Judith recently mentioned to us that her and her husband Rodney's air compressor had gone the fritz. She was looking for a temporary replacement so that she could finish a project; she also happens to have a small chipping/mulching machine. So we agreed to swap machines for a while, and we are now most of the way through chipping the slash from the spring orchard pruning. Corinne plans to put the chipped material around some of the trees in the yard, to suppress weeds.

We still haven't managed to buy a chipper of our own. So thanks, Judith & Rodney!

- Mike (& Corinne)