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One morning I woke with a hangover to find that my friends had deposited a bag of compost outside my door.
I'm still awaiting an explanation as to why, and I suspect none will ever emerge...
Everything thoroughly composted even the shredded paper which covered the materials. The white clumps seen on the compost is the remainder of some latex paint.
Tub here was the first design I experimented with: vents only at top requires periodic mixing to maintain good humidity.
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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My daughter, Racheal discovered the Lomi Compost System and bought one for me. She's used hers and is very impressed how fast it works on all sorts of food scraps. I will use mine once it gets colder outside since we throw our veggie scraps into the big compost pile behind the Hoop House. This thing can produce compost in 18 hours. Amazing.
After unsuccessfully trying to sort out the compost from the worms outside, I decided to just leave half alone and feed the other half (left). This way the worms will slowly migrate over and just leave the compost -- I hope.
Last of the yard waste material spread out and worked in. Hopefully this will be decomposed enough by spring to plant into.
At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
For more info and bookings see www.wowo.co.uk
A shot from our College Park Composting Facility. We received 10 tons of rotten food waste from Whole Foods, where we mix it with wood chips and leaves to make healthy soil. We use a front end loader to do this work.
7DOS ... Wk4 ... Down to Earth
This is my kitchen compost bin. All the organic waste from cooking is added each day and when it is full it goes into the big compost bin until it breaks down to compost.
Compost which is rich in nutrients is used as an additive in gardens and agriculture at which point it comes back to the earth, so completing the cycle.
I wanted to try and make a compost tumbler using only reclaimed wood from a shipping pallet. There is enough wood from one 42x42 pallet to make the stand - just be careful with the nails!
The rain barrel was donated (thanks to a wonderful friend!)
I bought the caster wheels from harbor freight for about 8 bucks.
small JPEG only of DP2 M original
March
Now published - 16 other photographs from this group (not this one) as:
'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-...
You can now _buy_ compost at Whole Foods. Why bother doing it yourself when you can feel good by spending money to do your part?
I think it's kind of ridiculous.