We drove to Canada Sunday to buy some BD manure from Aurora Farm for making 500 and BC. Woody greeted us. (Barbara was gone on a trip.) He showed us the burial spot of his old cow and his compost piles and we talked about storing preps. He served us Chia tea and biscoti in the barn. His barn and house were built by a solar-minded architect and are well done and sited atop a butte overlooking the whole Purcel Trench .
Unfortunately, US customs wouldn't let us take the manure into the US so we had to backtrack and return the excrement of the sacred cow back to the Aurora Farm barn. Woody was gone. I retrieved one small cowpie and hid it in my purse. I sat still in my seat as we went back through customs. Herb chatted with the inspector as they looked in the now empty barrel about how he was going to shovel up the stuff that drops out on the road in Sandpoint when the cattle semis come through from Canada with cows for slaughter in US processing plants. I will have my cow horn filled with BD manure, the BC is another thing. The next closest BD farm is Victor, Montana, but it's too far. I will have to try and find an organic cow in Sandpoint. Best, Merla
