Confession: I never took out the compost. Out of all the tasks I had to do during my summer internship that might make people complain— hours straight spent weeding, soaking logs in barrels of water to make them moist enough to grow mushrooms, finding cucumber beetles on blossoming plants and crushing them with our bare hands—this was the job I hated most. The composting process is tedious, not to mention the fact that it excretes a particularly noxious scent.
