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At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
For more info and bookings see www.wowo.co.uk
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
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
I don't have enough to add everything in one go in the garbage bag, but I keep adding stuff from the kitchen and garden everyday. The latest additions can be seen clearly _ a bunch of straw and a mixture of home-made compost activators: powdered chamomile, last month I also added some valerian. To one side there are the remains of the organic black assam tea I had yesterday.
From time to time the garbage bag rips, so I turn all this stuff into a new bag and in the process everything down here gets a good turning.
It isn't completely worm free, there were TONS of cocoons, each of which will hatch any where from 1 to 12 babies and there were some teeny weeny babies that just weren't fast enough. It was REALLY hot in the driveway.
Over the next ear and a half, microbes will convert this garbage to usable topsoil and mulch.
The composting program began in March 2010 as a pilot to divert food preparation waste and leftovers from the regular waste stream that is sent to Rio Rancho's landfill to a local business that recycles food waste into useable and sell-able compost.
For more information or additional images, please contact 202-586-5251.
PILE --Good pile of vegetation making compost. (U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture photo by Katie Teague)
My new compost bin from City Farmer. This is before I had finished setting it up. The worms are in the plastic top in the top right corner. The stuff inside the bin is the carbon-rich brown layer, made up of straw and shredded newspaper.
I have a mostly cold compost pile that I thought would do better being a bit caged. I built a sifter for the compost (which also helped me to prototype the bottom of the quail run), and was able to get several buckets full of compost. The compost has been added to the vegetable beds as well as to the violas and calla lilies in the front
This compost bin came free with our house (and we think free from the county). It's just flexible plastic with fairly large round holes, and the previous owners put some chicken wire around, presumably to keep rats out. We dug down a few inches and put bricks around the perimeter to prevent tunneling. And it seems to work, though I don't see why rats won't just climb up the side and over. I'm sure birds and squirrels have easy access and will forage if we leave tempting scraps on the top. To the right (washed out) is our old pile. We reset the bin about once a year and spread the old pile out on gardens or around trees/bushes.
Ramatu Yakubu shovels homemade compost into a donkey cart with the help of her eldest daughter Safia, 18, while her youngest daughter sits patiently.
Ramatu says that since learning organic, conservation farming techniques at ZOVFA’s ‘Farmer Field School’, such as making natural compost and pesticides, her onion crop lasts for much longer, and her children no longer get constant stomach complaints. She receives a better price for her onions and maize because she can store them for longer, and for the last year had no need to send any of her five children to the health clinic once. ‘I think it’s because I’m not using [chemical] pesticides’ she says. Ramatu also received a donkey cart and other equipment to support her new farming practices. She regularly tunes in to radio shows such as those ZOVFA and the Northern Presby network are running through an awareness campaign on the dangerous implications of the misuse of agro-chemicals. ‘From the radio discussions, if you listen carefully, you learn a lot’, Ramatu says.
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It's getting increasingly harder for me to find things to photograph. Most of our stuff is packed away, and we'll be on our way to our new home in a month :) The compost tumbler will be gone soon too. Glad I got to photograph it one more time.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Two cattle feeder composters. I lift the feeder off the compost with a front end loader and then use the tractor to re-pile the material. Most difficult thing is to keep the material moist.
We have stopped using this system June 2011.
I like it when I get a full bowl of compost filler from meal preparations - I know it's going to be good food if it takes that many fresh ingredients. :)
Probably one of the best designed compost bin out in the market. Compost bins are generally not known for creativity in styles.
This is the greenhouse where we have rainwater thermal stooge at the back, a compost pile on the other side that we collect heat from, and the beds buried in sand (sand not installed in this picture), that we use to propagate our nursery plants.
We put all of our food scraps into our compost bucket and then when it's full take it to our local "sanitary district" where they compost the whole shebang w/yard waste, etc. We're on the waiting list for an "Earth Machine" so we can do it all at home, and have the lovely compost for our garden too.