Finding horse manure

On July 14th, I built a little raised-bed garden bed in the back yard. The materials were 2"x12" boards from Home Depot. The bed measures 4 feet by 10 feet. (Ten feet was the longest board that would easily fit in our small car).

As I was turning the soil with a garden fork, I was pleased to see fat healthy worms in the dark earth. We had put down several loads of mulch in the back yard last year, and the mulch seems to have made a big difference. Last year the soil was a very hard red clay. Now the soil is nicely dark and soft.

I also picked up about 10 large bags of horse manure from a woman named Mary in Lakeside. I saw Mary's ad for free horse manure on Craiglist. When I drove up to the address she had given me, she was there in the yard feeding a horse. Also in her yard was a little lame goat that she had raised up from a kid. Besides the manure, Mary gave me some delicious tomatoes. There is much kindness in the this world.