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In the Garden
Autumn’s a good time for making compost, and a bin is key
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arden cleanup, lawn mowing and falling leaves all provide materials that make autumn a good time of year for composting. No need for exotic ingredients, fancy equipment or a degree in soil microbiology to put together a pile that yields quality compost and is not unpleasantly aromatic. HOUSING FOR YOUR COMPOST ‘PET’ You might look upon your compost pile as a pet, a conglomeration of millions of beneficial fungi, bacteria and other soil microorganisms. The pet benefits from the right housing. So one item that can greatly improve your compost-making is some sort of enclosure — a compost bin. A bin can fend off raccoons and stray dogs, as well as retain moisture and heat generated by the hardworking compost microorganisms. The latter is especially important as outdoor temperatures cool. And if nothing more, a compost bin keeps a compost pile from lookLEE REICH ing like a garbage pile. Whether you purchase a bin or make one yourself, 9 cubic feet is the minimum size for a critical mass to generate and maintain heat. My homemade “state of the art” compost bin was originally constructed from 1-by12-inch wooden boards, 5 feet long and notched near their ends so that they could be stacked together like Lincoln Logs. Nowadays, I use 1-by-6-inch “manufactured wood” (such as Moistureshield, Azek or Correctdeck), which should last many, many years. The boards are about 4 feet long and, as before, have notches cut into them so they can stack. A bin is a minimum requirement for good compost; compost mavens will set up two or more bins. This allows ingredients in one bin to age and mellow while materials are being added to a second bin. FOOD AND WATER FOR YOUR COMPOST ‘PET’ If you become even more enthusiastic about composting, you might lavish more attention on the mix of ingredients. The two most important foodstuffs of composting microorganisms are carbon and nitrogen. Old, usually brown and dry plant materials, such as autumn leaves, straw and sawdust, are rich in carbon. The older the plant material, the richer it is in carbon. Nitrogen-rich materials include succulent, green plant parts, such as tomato stalks; vegetable waste from the kitchen; and grass clippings, as well as manures. Especially concentrated sources of nitrogen include nitrogen fertilizers and seed meals. Soybean meal (available at feed stores) is my favorite high-nitrogen feed. Fuel your compost with a mix of nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich materials. How much of each to add will vary with their composition and particle size, but let observation and experience be your guides. A long-probed compost thermometer and your nose are good monitoring devices. If your pile never heats up — and temperatures above 130 degrees are not uncommon — it could be due to an excess of carbon, weather that’s too cold, or materials added gradually over a long period of time. Offensive smells and the presence of flies might indicate the opposite problem — too much nitrogen. Attention to water is the next level of care you might lavish on your compost pile. Too little water results in little or no activity, another reason why a pile may not heat up. Too much water drives out air and results in offensive smells. NO CARE ALSO WORKS, EVENTUALLY You could do even more for your pile. You could chop the ingredients. You could stir the whole mass up and rebuild the pile after a few weeks or months. If all this messing around seems like too much effort, don’t do it all. A casually made pile may not generate as
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This undated photo shows compost bins in New Paltz, N.Y. A good compost bin makes easy work of adding ingredients or removing compost and also fends off scavengesr and retains heat and moisture. (AP photo)
From left, Reh-Morr Farm’s Mary and Dan Rabine, Haley Hallett-Hook and Billy Smith are shown above positioned within a carefully designed farm ecosystem that includes a buckwheat cover crop, sunflowers, and hardwood forest land. At right, hügelkultur beds use decaying wood debris and plant material to create carbon-rich soil that retains water and fosters a community of microbes to nourish plants over long periods of time. (Photos courtesy of Abbey Palmer)
Alger County farm practicing regenerative agriculture By ABBEY PALMER Special to the Journal MSU Extension “The plow follows the ax,” a phrase that dates from the era of the Homestead Acts of the 1860s, describes a phase of land development in the Upper Peninsula. The phrase suggests that the relationship between farming and forests for settlers of that era lay in trading forested land for farmland. At the time, vast tracts of land dotted by stumps remained from logging that sought hardwood logs for charcoal to fuel the kilns and furnaces of the late 19th century mining boom. When the charcoal industry exhausted resources in an area, some of the former workers
from that industry found themselves in a position to transition to farming if they could finish clearing the land to make fields. The relationship between the farm and the forest was by no means mutually exclusive – people sought forests for building materials, habitat and wild food. That’s how many of the farms in Marquette and Alger counties began. But it took time for the forests that had been cut to recover. Reh-Morr Farm in Eben Junction has been managing their woodlot for firewood for more than 30 years on a piece of land used for both farming and forestry. Mary and Dan Rabine practice many of the familiar traditions that have been carried on alongside
logging and agriculture for decades — collecting maple syrup and harvesting timber to stack up cords of firewood according to the seasonal rhythms of the forest — but they have added another dimension: regenerative thinking. Regenerative agriculture is a system of practices focusing on soil health to increase biodiversity by capturing carbon in soil and aboveground biomass. The benefits of regenerative agriculture include higher rates of organic matter in soil, improved watersheds, more diverse habitat and enhanced ecosystem services. Many farms in the U.P. that tend toward practices See Farm p. 2D
Natural light sets a nice mood, and builders seek more of it By MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON Associated Press The first year that Bob Webb Homes used transom windows in the showcase house the company built for a home tour, visitors described the house as bright, warm and inviting. While few mentioned the windows, company representatives said tour participants were responding favorably to the additional natural light provided by the horizontal windows above the home’s more traditionally placed windows. “They couldn’t quite figure out why our house felt different,” said chief operating officer Scott Shively. “It was all the natural light. It just makes you feel good.” Taking a lead from architects who design office buildings, residential builders and architects say they are increasingly looking for ways to incorporate natural light into homes. (Numerous studies have shown that office workers with windows are healthier and happier.) In addition to transom windows, many new homes include large sliding glass doors, interior glass doors and thoughtful
This photo provided by BIA Parade of Homes, shows a room in a home designed for the BIA Parade of Homes in Columbus, Ohio. This 6,000-square-foot Romanelli & Hughes home features deep window wells, a glass-enclosed fitness center and glass doors in the basement to increase the amount of natural light in the home. (AP photo) window placement that lets light pass through multiple spaces. Improvements in weatherproofing and insulation materials and in installation methods for windows and doors have made it possible to increase the amount of glass in a house without creating drafts, said Shively. “We’ve figured out a better way to layer houses,” he says. “We can seal the entire house up around the windows.” In many cases, architects are incorporating these features because they see their value — even if clients don’t request them, says Stu
Narofsky of Narofsky Architecture in New York City. Sometimes the additions are simple, like placing a bedroom window where the light it lets in will illuminate a hallway, or adding glass panes to a door for the same purpose. Other additions are more dramatic, like making an entire wall of glass. Bob Webb’s latest show home, designed for the 2018 BIA Parade of Homes in Columbus, Ohio, features a retractable glass wall in the living room and a basement workout room that’s delineated by sliding glass, barn-style doors. More Mid-
west builders have begun using the retractable walls, which have long been prominent on the West Coast and Hawaii, because they too have undergone improvements that allow them to be used in colder climates, Shively said. The see-through doors to the exercise room serve two functions, he said. They help incorporate the workout area into the main room and provide natural light to the whole space. The doors work because the architect also incorporated deep, wide window wells into the See Light p. 2D
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Met Exhibit: How Chippendale became a household name By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK — A small but elegant exhibit tucked amid the American period rooms on the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the little-known story behind Chippendale furniture, and how one young man’s bold idea to create a detailed manifesto about chairs and tables for the British elite transformed his name into an enduring style. “Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker” reveals how Thomas Chippendale, an 18th century artisan of humble origins, came up with a new way of designing, marketing and producing furniture. The exhibit, featuring furniture, drawings and other objects, remains on view at the Met through Jan. 27. Chippendale’s pieces were created at the height of the Rococo period and were a British appropriation of a style imported from France, then known simply as “style moderne,” says Alyce Englund, assistant curator in the Met’s American Wing. She organized the exhibit with Femke Speelberg, associate curator of drawings and prints.
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that minimize off-farm inputs and seek efficient use of energy and resources have begun practicing regenerative agriculture, whether that is through utilizing cover crops to keep soil microbes alive or rotational grazing to introduce fertility to fields. At Reh-Morr Farm, the approach to regenerative agriculture includes the forest. The farm grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, raises bees for honey and maintains an environmentally verified farmstead. “The forest provides ecosystem services that are essential to the sustainability of the farm,” says Mary
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This photo provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a Side chair from the workshop of Thomas Chippendale. The chair is featured in the exhibit “Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker,” which runs through Jan. 27 at the museum in New York. (AP photo)
Other Chippendale pieces featured an Asian-inspired “chinoiserie” style, often in the form of tea stands and other tea-related furnishings popular in Britain at the time. Still other Chippendale works were in a Gothic revival or neoclassical style. The overall look was meant to be both sophisticated and elitist, boasting adherence to Greek and Roman principals of design while featuring decorative elements so complex and upholstery so expensive that the pieces would be inaccessible to more humble classes. Common features included chair backs pierced in an interlaced design, often using abstract leaf motifs or swirling ribbons, with the uppermost corners of the chair backs tending to proRabine. “What the trees give is a bit of a miracle — it begins with trudging through the deep snow for maple sap for syrup, and then the blossoming of the trees makes some of the first food for bees and native pollinators. We heat exclusively with wood. We compost leaves to replenish the soil. And the forest is habitat for the animals that keep the balance at our farm. I can’t imagine the farm without the forest.” The fields are ringed first by an impressive deer fence, and then by a tree line that functions as wind break, habitat for animals and a reminder that the farm is part of a larger ecosystem. One innovative practice that emphasizes soil health
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much heat or finish up as fast as one deliberately assembled, but time has much the same effect on compost quality as does heat. Either way, any pile of living or once living ingredients eventually becomes com-
ject upward in a variety of fashions. Designs often included intricate fretwork for shelves and chair legs, and decorative feet, sometimes featuring a hairy lion’s-paw design. A skilled draftsman, Chippendale owed much of his fame to his publication of an enormous and detailed book of engravings called “The Gentleman and CabinetMaker’s Director.” A typical copy of the Director was 18.5-by-12 inches and weighed over 8 pounds. Its first edition featured 160 of Chippendale’s lovingly rendered drawings of furniture designs, from which clients around England and its colonies were invited to order. Later editions featured still more of his detailed drawings. and carbon sequestration is the creation of hügelkultur beds. This permaculture practice uses stumps, branches, wood chips and other carbon-rich materials in a slow-maturing compost pile that creates soil rich in microbial life and fungi, which provide nourishment to perennial food crops grown on the mounds. Innovative approaches like this help attract assistance from young farmers-to-be like Haley Hallett-Hook and Billy Smith. “Neither of us grew upon a farm,” says Hallett-Hook, “but we knew we wanted to work outside and learn how to work with the land.” Reh-Morr Farm provides a place for young people to learn about farming and the
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basement’s design. “It’s amazing what those deeper wells can do. It makes a huge difference, and that light bleeds into the rest of the lower level,” Shively said. In several homes that Narofsky has designed, he has found an extreme solution for incorporating natural light in the lower level: digging out the layers of soil around the basement. In the space that’s created, homeowners have planted terraced gardens and, in one case, added a pool. Homeowners who aren’t planning to build a new house still have options — at a variety of price points — for bringing more natural light into their space, said Jim Bimstefer, an associate broker with Keller Williams Realty in Balti-
more. “When I’m going to sell a house, one of the first things I address is, ‘How can we get more light coming in?’” Bimstefer said. “More light makes a house feel bigger.” The solution can be as simple as trimming bushes and trees that are blocking windows, removing screens or keeping blinds raised during showings, he said. “There a lot of little things that can increase the value of the home,” he said. “If there is vegetation in front of the windows, absolutely cut it back. Clean the windows. Let the natural light in.” Other options can be more pricy, like adding glass doors, enlarging windows or installing skylights. Those improvements are best done long before listing a property so that the homeowner can enjoy the
benefits, he said. The budget considerations are “completely different” if you intend to live in the house for many years before selling it, Bimstefer said. “Go crazy. Pull the walls down. Replace the old front door. Open it up. Put as much glass in as you can.” As a remodeler, Christopher Wittmann regularly considers utilizing natural light when helping homeowners plan renovations. Depending on the project, he might suggest larger windows, glass doors or removing a wall, said Wittman of Callen Construction in Muskego, Wisconsin. He doesn’t hesitate to suggest more glass these days. “The energy efficiency has increased in windows and doors,” he said. “You can create a lot larger footprint in glass.”
environment. Smith’s internship with the farm through Northern Michigan University’s Outdoor Recreation and Leadership Management will result in the construction of a new hoophouse to increase the season extension capacity of the operation through Hoophouses for Health, a program that pairs expanding farms with vulnerable families to provide locally produced food. The success of the farm’s practices is attested to by the abundance of monarch butterflies, wildflowers and the quiet hum of insects
busy in the fields. You can meet those involved with Reh-Morr Farm – and many other local farms – at the Downtown Marquette Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, and also at the Munising Farmers Market from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays. The relationship between the forest and the farm is the topic of an upcoming workshop to be hosted at Reh-Morr Farm from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Those interested can register online at https://www.msunorthfarm.org/short-courses.html or contact Abbey at 906-
439-5058. The workshop is a collaboration between MSU Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center, the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program, Michigan Food and Farming Systems and the Marquette Conservation District.
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