{"id":12694,"date":"2023-04-11T03:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T03:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12694"},"modified":"2023-04-25T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:07:06","slug":"haute-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/11\/haute-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Haute Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/garden-compost-fertilizer-organic-6b8a977b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The New Gardening Status Symbol: Upscale Compost<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Compost has become a staple of cocktail-party conversations.\u2019 You can get manure from eucalyptus-eating goats and even a blend from Princess Diana\u2019s childhood home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/chavie-lieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chavie Lieber<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-734519?width=700&amp;height=875\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There are wait lists for high-end compost.\u00a0PHOTO:\u00a0HUGO YU FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miranda Michaelis, a 56-year-old flower farmer in Oxfordshire, England, says she grows some of the healthiest tulips around. Her secret is simple, she says: compost harvested from Princess Diana\u2019s childhood home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She buys it from the Land Gardeners, a company in London that recently began to produce compost at Althorp Estate, the 500-year-old Spencer family property where Diana grew up. The mix, called Climate Compost Inoculum, includes waste from the Spencer family\u2019s horses and cows, as well as ingredients such as weeds, young wood chips and buckwheat. A small, coffee-size bag goes for \u00a320, or about $25 a pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humble compost\u2014a staple of agriculture for thousands of years\u2014has become a luxury item. Amid a burst of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-lockdown-discovering-gardenings-restorative-powers-11587898807?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pandemic interest in gardening<\/a>\u00a0and a growing focus on sustainability, shoppers are increasingly willing to pay top dollar for a bumper crop of artisanal fertilizer. Compost makers are giving their products, essentially manure and decomposed plant matter, a level of scrutiny that is typically seen in fine dining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a craft, making compost like we do,\u201d says Bridget Elworthy, one of the co-founders of Land Gardeners. \u201cIt\u2019s like making wine, although making wine seems very glamorous, and making compost is very unglamorous. So maybe it\u2019s like making yogurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/garden-compost-fertilizer-organic-6b8a977b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal The New Gardening Status Symbol: Upscale Compost \u2018Compost has become a staple of cocktail-party conversations.\u2019 You can get manure from eucalyptus-eating goats and even a blend from Princess Diana\u2019s childhood home By\u00a0Chavie Lieber There are wait lists for high-end compost.\u00a0PHOTO:\u00a0HUGO YU FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE Miranda Michaelis, a 56-year-old flower farmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}