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These rat-proof compost bins are designed to maximize (1) composting efficiency (2) scalability, and (3) deployability, while still being extremely long lasting. Modular design principles allow for construction of a single 4’x4’x4’ “bin” for use by a homeowner or small urban farm with the option of adding additional bins to create the 3-bin system (pictured) for use in community gardens, school gardens, or larger urban farms. See: www.urbanfarmplans.com/portfolio/compost-knox/
Purchased six gas struts from: www.gasspringsshop.com/. Their gas spring calculator recommends two 8-19-220 gas struts per lid.
Originally a Swedish development, the compost toilet features a seat with sealing o-rings to avoid odour. No flushing as there is no water involved, instead you shovel some composting enhancing mix (in the basket) into the toilet after use.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Young boys collect food for the worm compost bin after their class mates eat their lunch at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The school uses gardens to teach students about gardening and also has a vertical garden, a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds and a small greenhouse. Los Angeles, California, USA
Portland is very progressive when it comes to environmental matters. Chicago can't even get a working recycling program off the ground.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
For more info and bookings see www.wowo.co.uk
I found this compost toupee incredibly funny when I saw it on the bench this morning (from cutting my partner's hair last night)
This came up volunteer in the compost pile at the back of the garden on the edge of the field I walk in.
Drying Gourds
There are a number of different methods to dry gourds and the particular method anyone uses will be up to them. If you want to pick your gourds early and place them on pallets, then fine, they will dry. However; there is more chance of your gourds rotting when you do this. If the gourds are picked before maturing, then they are much more susceptible to rot. If you want to leave your gourds right in the field attached to the vines, then fine, they will dry, And no, you don't have to go out and put anything under them to protect them from the damp ground. Gourds have been drying by themselves for eons and have been doing just fine. In fact, I believe gourds will cure faster if left right on the vine until dry.
However, here are a few points to remember.
Gourds need air to properly dry. Lots of air. So if you pick your gourds early, DON'T put them some place where they will not get good air flow, like in a cellar or a small room.
Gourds will dry out in the weather just fine. No, it won't hurt them to get wet from rain, nor will it hurt them to freeze. Yes, a hard freeze will kill the vines and leaves, but mature gourds will do just fine. Commercial growers don't pick their gourds from the fields until they are fully dry. Gourds are dry when they are very light in weight and the seeds rattle when they are shaken. Gourds that are left on the vine to dry, harden off much better and seem to be of much higher quality than gourds that have been picked while still green.
REGARDLESS OF WHAT ANYONE TELLS YOU, DO NOT SCRAPE OR CUT INTO A GREEN GOURD IN ANY WAY TO FACILITATE DRYING.
it's odd i suppose but i love that he can do anything & i love that he shows the boys how to do stuff too :) te amo habibi
he's building me a compost box. one that has removable slats so you can get the good stuff on the bottom :)
I made Pam a compost bin for her allotment.
The design was driven by the materials available: a pallet, portions of the neighbours demolished garage, and tongue-and-grove pine panelling.
Ned tying on spiked boots for a trip to the compost bin. It's still early enough in the season that the compost bin hasn't been plundered by raccoons or bears.
This is our very first compost pile. It got full and we create a second pile. We have a nice sign asking people to not add anymore!
Building compost windrows with the front end loader, while we get a delivery of food waste in the back.
We don't seem able to eat artichokes. Kindly given as a gift from our allotment neighbours...
The mould down to very hot weather mainly!
July
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:
stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
John Newling, 'Eliot's Notebooks', pages made from compost created from shredded copies of 'The Waste Land'. The Waste Land exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Margate.
A vermicomposting bucket is mixed with food waste and worms. Several different species of worms such as Canadian nightcrawlers, red wigglers or earthworms are excellent at decomposing organic waste products and turn those throwaway food scraps, paper or yard waste into compost as beneficial soil amendments. Compost is the key to organic farming and researchers at MU's Bradford Research Center in Columbia are looking at ways to make this style of food production more efficient and affordable.
Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Images from the first 72 hours of POC21 innovation camp. Around 40 volunteers have started to build a tent village, solar showers, compost toilets, work spaces and the fablab workshops. Follow @poc21cc for more!
This photo was taken at my home in Hyattsville, MD, where the city provides free basic compost equipment to improve the towns footprint. Composting is a form of recycling in which things such as plant litter, fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells and much more are decomposed over time with the right balance of temperature, sunlight and moisture. The Compost Education Center defines compost as a biochemical process, and continues in depth by stating that biological life breaks down chemical bonds to turn organic waste materials into nutrient rich humus. The primary reasons for composting are for use in gardens and agriculture practices because composting greatly benefits multiple soil conditions. The US Composting Council explains why compost aids soil factors and why this helps gardeners and agricultural specialists. Adding compost to soil increases the soil moisture holding capacity, which is beneficial to many areas affected by poor soil qualities. Personally, my hometown of Toms River, New Jersey has a soil profile that is 88% sand, making my garden a Sandy Loam, which drains water very rapidly as the particles are very coarse and water does not stick to them. Additions of compost to my soil has aided in the soil’s ability to hold water more efficiently, reducing runoff and keeping plant structures more stable. Another benefit to composting is that the organic matter stimulates biological activity, increases the amount of soil nutrients and microorganisms, the soil pH and the soil structure are stabilized, and compost matter improves the retention of soil fertilizers. The process of composting allows microorganisms such as actinomycetes, mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria and fungi to break down organic matter. After the compost temperatures are lowered and bacteria and fungi die off, macroorganisms such as earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris), red wigglers (Eisenia foetida), sow bugs (Oniscidea spp.), mites and centipede species will move in and physically break down the remaining organic matter through the processes of chewing, grinding and excreting as explained by the Compost Education Center. Compost has many beneficial factors, however one of the most noted factors is the reduction of landfill usage and reduction of methane production. It is common knowledge if you have ever visited a landfill that decomposing material in anaerobic conditions releases high levels of methane into the environment. Because the bulk of this material being broken down is food waste from residential homes, offsetting the amount of this waste that reaches the landfill greatly reduces the methane production levels and therefore, lowers greenhouse gas emissions. This ties into the Sustainable Development Goal #13- Climate Action. The Government of Western Australia’s Agriculture and Food Department states that methane is 26 times more potent compared to carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and therefore, contributes a much higher impact on global warming. Since composting is aerobic, methane producing microbes are inactive in the chemical breakdown. Another way to improve climate change is by reducing the transportation of rates of waste materials to landfills, which reduces greenhouse gas emitting- fossil fuels needed. Lowering the amount of methane released into the environment lowers our greenhouse gas emissions, which helps in fighting climate change, something that is becoming a very real issue by the day.
Sources:
compostingcouncil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GHG-a...
www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-metha...
compost.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Compost-Ecology-...
in the spirit of "compost everything" I put these in the dalek.
All that's left is elastane, the cotton's completely disappeared
The compost is kept covered by a plastic tarp to retain moisture and the whole bin has a sliding tin roof on top. One end has a full piece of plywood and this end has two pieces to make it easier to unload when the time comes.
Table scraps plus wiggly worms equal vermicompost. A complete how-to is available from OSU Extension. ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/23... (Photo by Michael Noack and Sally Noack.)
Petals from Mothers Day and not a great diet!
March
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:
stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
This has now settled to about 50% volume of the original pile. It is frozen on the edges and top but still hot in the inside.
I have 3 in a row which are rotated.
One long panel is split lengthways and used to start the build. One short panel is split lengthways and used at the top to finish the build.
At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
For more info and bookings see www.wowo.co.uk