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=__ MLK Day of Service __= - Irene Silvernail All week the temperatures were mid 50s to 60s, yet today the temperature dropped to under twenty. Just our luck! We separated into 3 groups: Planters, wood chips, and leaf mulch. Planters went across the street to the Cary Town park. Those who worked with wood chips wheeled them out to the fields and spread them. Leaf mulchers (my group) went to the fields and split into sub-groups. It worked like an assembly line. It would start with the large mulch pile. 2-4 people would have pitch forks, which were used to put mulch into the wheel barrows. The next sub-group: wheel barrow handler (I was in this group). We would take the mulch from the pile to all over the field. Then, those with rakes spread the mulch evenly. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 The leaf mulch provided much needed nutrients to the frozen ground. Theses nutrients would aid farmers when they went to plant crops in the fields. Because of farming, there was no decaying matter to provide nutrients to the soil. This mulch is a substitute that provides nutrients.