Let’s be honest…shoveling dirt is a lot of work. A lot. A. Lot. I know from experience, although I’d rather not.

After getting our raised beds built, I realized I actually needed to put something in them. We’ve got a decent amount of compost in the works but it’s not ready and it’s nowhere close to being enough to fill all seven of our beds. So, I had eight yards of compost delivered from a local landscape materials company.

As you can see from the photo below…eight yards of compost is nothing to shake a stick at. Or a shovel. But a shovel is precisely what I needed to get that junk in to the beds.

So it began. I made around 50 trips with the wheelbarrow from the pile to the beds and finally got it all finished yesterday. Relief.