Today was one of my favorite days. Apart from having to wake up at 5 a.m. to bird watch.. I'm not exactly a morning person. I'm glad I did though, I got to see a few very beautiful endemic birds that I will probably never get to see again. The farm tour was very interesting and I'm glad we got to see most of the greenhouses and the artist painting the fields beneath the apple trees. What I liked most of all was the compost lecture. I especially enjoyed the speaker Pierre Loisel and his take on compost and nature in general. One of his main points was that 'nature will take care of itself' and I enjoyed his example of allowing the plants to use their natural plant defense gases instead of using pesticides to get rid of the bugs eating them. I was very surprised that he used meat and seafood because I've always heard that you weren't supposed to use those, I'm guessing he can use it because he has a larger amount of compost. I wrote about 2 pages of notes, and I learned a lot of great information that I can bring home and apply to my own compost. I also enjoyed the juice making and I wish we could have gotten a list of the herbs we used. The bug observation was better than I thought it would be, I wish we would have seen more fireflies but I'm glad we got to see a lot of beautiful moths.
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