Alfred Reed Bishop and Doris William Butler

The picture above is the very tap root of Bishop's Homegrown/Face Of The Earth Seed. My grandparents shortly after moving to Pekin Indiana from Greensburg KY in 1947 where they purchased the farm that is now Bishop's Homegrown. This picture was taken in Pekin in front of the old co-op next to the old railroad depot, neither of which exist today.

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Monday, December 22, 2008

That is one big pile of shit!

By:Alan Reed Bishop
Bishop's Homegrown/Homegrown Goodness/Hip-Gnosis Seed Development





Ok, fair enough, to some the title might have been inappropriate, but since I spend so much time making sure to cultivate the freedom of my mind in a completely unhindered way, anyone who might be offended would just have to forgive me, besides, it's just a quote from one of the greatest movies/books of all time, Jurassic Park (have I ever mentioned that this was one of our first warnings about the danger of GMO's, Cloning, and in general tampering with nature).



Anyhow, Paul brought the next two bins for "The Wyrm" on Saturday, I was very glad to get those in and set up and ready to go in the next month, but I was getting concerned about obtaining feed stocks for the worms that would also make terrific fertilizer, fortunately the neighbors arrived right behind Paul with a dump truck full of cow manure! Paul and I went over and helped finish cleaning out the barn for about an hour which resulted in a second dump truck load of manure. It's now laid out in a windrow where it will compost for about a month before being fed (in any large quantity) to the worm heard. I'll also be adding more green compostable material to the heap to help fortify the nutrients and keep it limed pretty well to balance the pH.




I was going to try to find that particular still from Jurassic Park and spoof the pic with myself but I couldn't find it anywhere, so instead Paul and I took some picks, I made the comment that we should make the pics look like they aren't conceited (my mind works in mysterious ways) so we grabbed a pitch fork and threw some manure around, as it turned out, those probably looked goofier than just standing there with a big grin on our face, I thought I'd post them anyhow. I sent Paul home with three big soy bean seed bags full of manure for his herd as well.



5 comments:

Rebsie Fairholm said...

That's a very nice pile of shit you have there, Alan.

The Berwick Worm Farm said...

Hi, I agree thats quite a pile of ----. Do you sell your seeds? I live in Maine and have a worm farm and a website (www.berwickwormfarm.com) and would like to add seeds to my bag of tricks this spring. You have quite a site, I just started mine.

FEED YUOR WORMS AND STARVE THE LANDFILL

Ottawa Gardener said...

That's some good looking shit. I bet it was a good time moving it.

Bishops Homegrown said...

heheheeh, thanks for the compliments on the giant pile of shit! I really appreciate it! It is a thing of beauty!

Maine Worms,

I do trade seeds for other seeds or shipping and packaging prices, anything in particular you are looking for?

The Berwick Worm Farm said...

Hi,
I was looking for a way to add seeds to my site.
Maine Worms
Howard