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Rehomed the compost bins under the plum and pear tree.
They're sitting on concrete now, rather than space in the back corner that I could use for growing.
Comissão Mista de Acompanhamento das Medidas Relacionadas ao CoronavÃrus (CN-Covid19) realiza audiência pública interativa com a participação, por videoconferência, do ministro de Estado da Cidadania para tratar sobre as ações do Ministério relacionadas à emergência de saúde pública de importância internacional relacionada ao combate ao coronavÃrus (Covid-19).
A comissão é composta por seis deputados e seis senadores, com igual número de suplentes, conduzida do gabinete do presidente eleito e conta com contribuições dos parlamentares que estiverem participando remotamente.
Presidente da CN-Covid19, senador Confúcio Moura (MDB-RO), conduz audiência.
Tela exibe, em videoconferência:
secretário especial de Desenvolvimento Social do Ministério da Cidadania, Sérgio Augusto de Queiroz;
ministro de Estado da Cidadania, Onyx Lorenzoni;
secretário executivo do Ministério da Cidadania, Antônio José Barreto de Araújo Júnior.
Participam remotamente:
senador Esperidião Amin (PP-SC);
vice-presidente da CN-Covid19, senadora Eliziane Gama (Cidadania-MA);
senador Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP);
senador Izalci Lucas (PSDB-DF);
senador Vanderlan Cardoso (PSD-GO);
senadora Zenaide Maia (Pros-RN);
deputado Cacá Leão (PP-BA);
relator da CN-Covid19, deputado Francisco Jr. (PSD-GO);
deputado Luiz Carlos Motta (PL-SP);
deputado Hildo Rocha (MDB-MA);
deputado João H. Campos (PSB-PE);
deputado Mauro Benevides Filho (PDT-CE).
Foto: Leopoldo Silva/Agência Senado
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
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.
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-...
There's just parsley growing atm which we didn't plant but had spread from another patch via seeds blown by the wind. Last summer we had tomatoes (even kumatoes!) and various beans.
in the spirit of "compost everything" I put these in the dalek.
All that's left is elastane, the cotton's completely disappeared
Virginia DEQ staff Steve Coe, environmental specialist/recycling, Office of Pollution Prevention, and Virginia Butler, regulations and program developer, Office of Financial Assurance, tour Royal Oak Farm, a Virginia composting operation, in Evington, VA, in October 2009. (Photo/DEQ)
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
This had an 'early' plucked allotment pear and some tomato skins and pips from some home-grown toms that had been ripened in the dark.
October
Went to take the compost out and in the dirt bed we use are two huge Tomatillo plants - with fruit! None of the squash I planted has come up - but these are looking good. Sounds like green salsa is in the future.
we had to go grocery shopping today & i just saw a commercial/read a blog post about the new sunchips compostable bag. very excited about this! wish it was always so easy to shop green. plus they use solar/wind power in their chip plants too.
and i picked up more worms for my compost bin :D
would love suggestions on more practical ways to go green. here are some things i'm already doing....
-compost bin
-recycling glass, paper & plastic
-gave up red meat & chicken. still eating turkey but not for much longer. will always eat seafood!
-thermostats set at most efficient temp
-tankless hot water system
-porch around the house for better energy conservation
-switched lightbulbs
-reuseable shopping bags
-drive a beetle. wish darren didn't need an suv for work. he would love to be able to have a mini instead.
-no more chemicals in the yard or house. "green" cleaning products inside the house & organic products for the yard. i also use organic fish emulsion to fertilize my plants the past few years.
-we do use paper towels but the ones i buy are select-a-size made from recycled products.
-we just bought a rain barrel made out of recycled plastic. very excited for it to rain now!
ok-i know there's more. i'll add as i think of them. please add your ideas as well. always looking for things we can incorporate into our daily life. especially now with the oil spill, i feel like i have to be doubly conscious!
there was also a free kindle book on earth day. need to read it next for more tips & ideas.
I decided to screen some of our compost tonight. I realized I haven't been turning it well enough because the stuff on the bottom was pretty wet and smelled terrible.
Trying not to smell, I screened some of the compost to see what it looked like and.... it looked good enough to me... so I mulched a few things.
How do you know when your compost is complete?
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
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.