Massive compost 24th June

Yesterday Admire, Laurent & I made a compost - a good 10m long, 1.5, wide & 1.5m high. It took a huge amount of green and dry plant material from near the river, plus 6 wheelbarrows of manure. It was Laurent's first big compost & I think he was a bit surprised at how much material it took to make it, and hard work! I buggered my hands from slashing weeds, lots of blisters - I guess my hands haven't been used to doing proper work either. At the end of the day we've got a good result, there should be a good 30 or 40 barrow loads of compost when it will have finished. If Kufunda got a few people together and made 4 of those a year their gardens would be cranking. 6 people with enough tools could knock it off in a morning. Co-ordination people!!
They could probably make 2 in the wet season with all of the extra green material around, and just save up some dry stuff from the previous season.
I was interested to see how much green material is generated by banana trees. Admire said that a banana tree only needs to keep 3 or 4 leaves on it, so the rest could be chopped for mulch or compost; we got a huge amount of material from about 20 trees. They could plant a couple of hundred banana & other mulch producing trees along the edge of those fields & be totally self-sufficient in green material for every compost they wanted to make.
Golden rule of permaculture design - provide all of your biomass needs on-site.