We began our 2nd Master Composter training meeting at Tatum Park with Rutger's Prof. Stephanie Murphy giving a power point presentation on Soil & Organic Matter. We learned about the components of soil, soil texture and structure, density, porosity, and porespace. We covered water conductance, aeration, soil fertility & plant nutrition, Liebig's concept of the limiting factor, soil testing, fertilizers, release of nutrients and more. Hope there's no exam next week!
After lunch we went across the street to Deep Cut Park where we were given composting pitch forks to keep and then were put to work at the park's compost display.
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