María Pinto, Chile.

The municipality of María Pinto collects organic waste from its residents, converts it to compost, and then sells it back to the residents for use in gardens, etc.

Coffee cherry is diverted from the depulper to these channels for composting. R-L = new, old, oldest.

Beautiful day today, and thoughts turn to turning - compost! Of course it's just a Portland pre-Spring teaser.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch today announce the launch of the nation’s largest curbside composting program starting this fall, at the The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, on Monday, August 8, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

The packaging on Sun Chips claims their bags are biodegradable, so I'm giving it a test in my compost bin.

So is it a real concern for the environment or a marketing ploy? I don't know, but it is certainly better than tossing a container in the trash.

My husband's own handiwork, the final screws added and then freshly painted today. It has an opening door at the bottom to remove the compost, and he's made the whole thing a lot bigger than the ones we've seen for sale. We're delighted with the result.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch today announce the launch of the nation’s largest curbside composting program starting this fall, at the The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, on Monday, August 8, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

These are decorative Asa well as functional. Use them to store compostable scraps in your kitchen. Great gift for the cooking gardener!

Grasshoppers are composters too, eh?

Air pruning free flow compost tea maker. Add grass cutter clippings and water, wait for a few days, pour out extremely good fertilizer and bugs repellant. Dilute 1:10.

I've been dropping deadheads, weeds, and other clippings from my garden into this bucket. They've dried out nicely into a kind of potpourri. I'm going to make them into compost tea.

I found this Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, as I was turning one of our compost piles. A great home for a salamander ... warmth, shade, food, and moisture all in one place.

wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/species-list.html#amphibians

www.distanthillgardens.org

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch announce a roadmap to implement the nation's largest composting program at City Hall on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

Circles aren't just for yurts - first compost starts breaking down

Staff and volunteers demonstrate composting techniques at BBG. Photo by Elizabeth Peters.

Early allotment produce (mostly) June compost

Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:

Compostion

ISBN 9781-870736-17-6

17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword

36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.

Retail price: £18 $25

Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.

See previews here:

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Been on my list of things to do for 10 years. Check.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch announce a roadmap to implement the nation's largest composting program at City Hall on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

George delivered a composting bin to the garden 3 weeks ago. We didn't waste time putting it to good use. It is almost full. Can't wait to see how fast it actually turns the garden waste into highly nutritious soil. This bin will help us maintain a good balance without the need of conventional fertilizers. (ACC Northridge Community Vegetable Garden).

Rampant nasturtiums refuse to stay in the compost bin.

The compost piles are inundated with worms. I suspect these to be red wiggler's -- but I am not sure how they survived the winter?

Stickers to show what you can and can't compost

Layers from fall 2006 & spring & summer 2007 including many rinds of melon (our Mellon bank), turned by old farm fork on right, watered, & now left to the feasting of bacteria & worms.

One of the most visionary tasks Federación Campesino is involved in is the creation of this large-scale organic composting plant. On site, they also have an organic garden, dairy cows, a tilapia lake, and are working on building out dorms for eco-tourism (local and international) – as well as a roadside restaurant with traditional organic foods.

I was already inspired by all the comments I'd heard from specialty producers throughout the week, but this was an additionally uplifting way to end the trip.

Compost Comics / one-shot

> Withdrawal (art: George Metzger)

> Scientific Comics (art: Tom P. Gasparotti)

> The Thing in the Garden (art: Ralph T. Reece)

> Nature's Memory (art: Tom P. Gasparotti)

> Dr. Atom: Dr. Atomic and His Chickenmobile (art: Larry Todd)

> The Fertile Crescent (art: Tom P. Gasparotti)

Cover: Tom P. Gasparotti, Hector Tellez

Publisher: Tom P. Gasparotti; R.T. Reece; Hector Tellez; Larry Todd (USA 1973)

ex libris MTP

www.comics.org/issue/754608/

There is corn growing in our compost pile. Unexpected.

There are a couple of the little guys. We got ours from our nursery down the road. Red wrigglers is what you're looking for.

The Flickr Lounge-Metallic

I decided that a metal Compost Bin was better than one that is breakable.

Compost bench in the Home Composting Exhibit.

we spend a lot of time here these days.

Compost that is fairly far along in the process. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022

Please excuse the state of my grass. I blame the beast in the picture and her cohorts.

This is a 45 gallon drum composter that someone had thrown out. It has steel posts bolted to both ends for support on a frame. I use this as part of a compost demonstration site. There are a whole whack of holes drilled into it for air. I add the household waste to it with handfulls of shredded leaves. It needs water added often but so far I have not taken anything out of it. Been in use about for about 60 days.

For more information about this and other gardening topics, visit the UF/IFAS website Gardening Solutions.

a mixture of choice (of timing) and randomness (of composition). After doing John Cage's 'Song Books' last year...

December (altho wasted from November?)

Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:

Compostion

ISBN 9781-870736-17-6

17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword

36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.

Retail price: £16.95 $25

Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.