Man seeks to find me after my brief appearance on radio about composting

Five years ago when I began thermophilic composting, depositing all of our organic waste into a compost pile in the backyard, I called Ira Flatow during his Science Friday program on NPR to report my project related to his theme of conservation of resources on college campuses. Though I only occasionally have time to listen to the noon broadcast on Fridays, my call was the first answered. Ira didn’t seem particularly keen on discussing with me my description of recycling all of the urine & feces (no flushing of purified water down toilets into the sewer) along with kitchen leavings from food preparation, leaves, grass clippings to produce humanure for my gardens. Nevertheless, Dave Earnshaw in Laramie who was listening took immediate interest. Dave also composts thermophilically. Occasionally tuning in to the show, but not religiously, Dave assumed that I was a faculty member at UW (but at the time I was only an instructor for LCCC); all he knew was my first name from the broadcast. He searched & contacted every Patrick listed in the UW directory in a futile attempt to get in touch with me. A few years passed. At a workshop sponsored by Laramie Local Foods, while explaining to another participant (who raised worms) about humanure, she mentioned Dave as doing something similar. I called Dave, the only other person, as far as we know, who creates humanure for fertilizer. Each fall the two of us provide a workshop in my backyard for students of Dr Christine Porter’s Food, Health, & Justice college course.