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During one of our Monday night dumpster dives we found a pretty decent
55 gallon drum that had been cut in half. Wendy busted out the plasma
cutter this morning so that she could insert "breather holes" for our
compost. We already have a spinning compost bin which is great, but we
needed a storage area for the compost to break down further. Hopefully
these two half drums we will give us just that.
As a result of our recent hard freeze the remaining leaves have fallen off our mulberry trees. I started raking them up for our incredibly awesome compost. Juicing 2x a day has made all the difference for our compost smell, heat and turn-around time. Normally it would just stall out on us especially in weather near 20F.
2012 is the year to make my life more eco friendly! Yesterday I came across Young House Love and read about their experiences with compost, so I thought I'd give it a try, too! I'm eager to see how things will turn out!
our soil builders group composted 25 pallets worth of wasted food this weekend.
everything was bagged, wrapped in plastic or clamshelled except for the melons and cabbages...
Starting Our Garden!
This is a sticks/debris compost pile. We also have a food scrap compost bin that we started right after we got here. I recycle "every single fruit and veggie scrap" that comes out of the house. I advise anyone, who grows plants to get a compost bin and save your organic fruit and veggie scraps to make compost.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
I mashed about in the back yard & woods, then decided to turn the big compost pile. Added stuff from to small bins. Inner core steaming! Wow!
I didn't turn my compost at all last winter and it froze. I'm gonna keep turning this winter to have garden compost early spring :)
Really something to see what looks like a pile of snow, is actually food & leaf waste breaking down to essential elements, high nutrient dirt.
This pic featured on my blog Veggie Mama
This is where we intend to do most of the active composting. Still setting stuff up but it's getting there.
Added a divider to my compost bin so one side is dirt ready for potting and the other I'd composting.
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
our compost is going strong thanks to the power of bunnies!
Explaination can be found here: argylewhale.blogspot.com/
The working part of the garden. As we have sandy soil we need to build up the organic matter.
I do this in a variety of ways...
Compost heaps made using hay bales as walls of the compost heaps. I then use the rotted bales as mulch.
Worm farms (have 2 farms with 3 layers each)
Guinea pigs & ducks add fertiliser to the system
I use black bins to rot down nasty spreading weeds... once safe these are added to the compost heaps
@dailyshoot: 2010/04/26: Plastic is everywhere. Make a photograph that illustrates a use of plastic in your life today. #ds162
I repurposed an old juice pitcher that was less than functional (it dribbled in pour mode) into my compost collector- all the vegetable trimmings, fruit rinds, coffee grinds that make their way to my bins outside.
It's not very big, so I get regular exercise.
Food scraps, leaf litter and other organic biodegradable matter often make their way into landfills where they decompose and generate methane. Overall, landfills are the third largest source of methane, accounting for about 22 percent methane emissions associated with human activity. In the United States, landfills are the largest source of methane. Separating the organic material out, composting it and capturing the methane before it enters the atmosphere could help reduce that number.
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At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
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My winter composting bin early on New Years morning (during a huge snow storm). I'm a composting fanatic - what can I say?
The compost is a little aerobic right now, which is the reason we wanted to have Gary turn it with the front loader. Turning it allows air to enter the mix which helps accelerate the composting process.