wood chips or shredded newspaper. Sprinkle a small amount of garden soil or lawn fertilizer between layers to speed the decomposition process. Water the completed pile lightly to the consistency ...

Why build a brush pile? A mound of woody, vegetative material, even a small one, can furnish as beneficial wildlife cover.

Woodland raptors, like our winter resident hawks and owls, use hunting perches overlooking brush piles to watch for their favorite small mammal ... in his poem “The Wood-pile.” ...

The city, which turned 1604 years old on March 25, is built on the foundations of millions of short wooden piles, pounded in the ground with their tip facing downwards. These trees – larch ...