Hey, friends. Welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast.

I am very excited for today's episode because we're going to do a deep dive into a topic that I

think you're probably already familiar with and maybe even dabbled in. But if you're anything like

me, you're just needing a little bit of extra oomph to really master the whole process. And I'm

talking about compost. I think most homesteaders have dabbled with compost, whether you have a pile of

cow manure or horse manure like me, or maybe some chicken manure. But how do you know if you're

doing it? So it is going to be safe for your garden. So it's going to be the most nutritious.

How do you handle weed seeds and the cold techniques and the hot techniques? There's just so many

questions and so much technicality. So I am so excited to have a compost queen with me today.

Kate Flood is here. She is from New South Wales, Australia. I think she's the first Australian I've

ever had on the podcast, which was evident in the fact that I totally messed up our first recording

because I didn't know the whole time so difference because it's substantial. But anyway, she has a book

and she is known as compostable Kate. She teaches compost so well. And in such an understand

way, I cannot wait to chat. So welcome, Kate. I'm so thrilled to have you. Thank you, it's

lovely being here. And yeah, time signs are hard. So it's probably very hard. Yes, that's why I'm

having my morning poverty. I actually am awake at 5 a.m. So a 6 a.m. start is good for me. So I

hope the time is good for you. It doesn't look like it's about to be your bedtime. No, it's two,

it's two p.m. in the afternoon here. So it's 6 a.m. The following day. They are, right? Like

yes, yes, yes. What is today? Today's Monday for me. Tuesday for you. Yeah. So hard to wrap my mind

around. So oh my goodness. But yeah, so I'm learning about international time zones this week. Go

me. But anyway, yeah, we were chatting before I hit record. Just, you know, I played with compost.

Actually, compost was the biggest, like the impetus that started our homestead. We had horses when

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