Yes could well have been local Megan. Homer's son -- Well Black Bart was a scholar.
Q, So you raise orchids. We have tiny remants of pre-white settlement grassland out here (mostly on the roadsides). The native orchids are flowering just now among the other wildflowers. They mostly refuse to be propagated and some of us are fighting hard to have these small areas protected. As for mulch (bart?) I beg what I can for my own revegetation work. Actually the more rotten the better for my purposes, Australian native plants need the fungus it seems. So many weeds so little time......