Q: With all the plants and animals on your farm, I bet you make great compost.
A: We have the most diversified compost pile in the country, I think, because we have manure from chickens and White Park cattle. We have heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and squash in every color imaginable thrown onto the pile, and volunteer sunflowers and kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate blooming on the edges. It's really beautiful.
Q: You have a beautiful compost pile?
A: We do.
Q: Do people tell you that?
A: No. Nobody has.
interviewer: Steve Aitken, in Fine Gardening Magazine, Feb 2010
subject: Diane Ott Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange