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Cell 4 of the 2008 sheet composting season with cell 3 just to the right. These cells are mostly grass clippings from this year. Tried to arrange so that grass went over leaf areas from 2006. Just worked this in last week.
A family of mice have taken up residence in the compost heap at the bottom of the garden. Lift the lid and off they scuttle at a rate of knots into their various burrows. This one scarpered just slightly slower than the others, pausing just long enough for me to grab this shot.
I needed to move the compost heap from one side of the garden to the other, in order to dig up the flags next to the bench.
I tried shoving it and working it, but in the end, it was easier to shove it over, slide the plastic free, put it where it needed to go, and then re-fill it with the compost, which had been lying about on the floor.
A good sign of the health of the orchard compost pile. This pile mulched our organic Cascade and Centennial hops on Half Hill Farm.
November
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: £16.95 $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.
A visit to the farm in Shrewsbury where garden waste and cardboard collected from homes in Shropshire is composted to create an agricultural soil improver
Truckload is only $10.00 Find out where a nearby county recycles yard waste into compost....then go there and buy it. Your soil will improve & plants will celebrate.
George Dreckmann, City of Madison Recycling Coordinator, presented on composting basics at several Madison libraries in the spring of 2014. Composters were on display at multiple libraries in March and April. Photos by Library staff.
Pre-covid our church had a coffee-and-hospitality table at the mobile food pantry. Covid 19 interrupted things and these cookies sat in our basement for two years. A sample tasting showed the cookies are now inhospitable, so they went into our compost pile.
A small 4 foot by 4 foot trailer I picked up. I added some perforated galvanized steel to the sides so that it holds a little more than a cubic yard.
365 day 163
We have 6 compost bins 5 feet square. When this one gets full, it will be time for DH to spread the contents of the oldest bin on the garden and then turn each bin into the newly emptied bin next to it. Having a big, strong hubby does come in handy!
We installed the second compost bin this morning next to the garden to alternate use each year. We're doing that because each Spring we can't pull out the previous season's compost from underneath a winter's worth of additional uncomposted compost.
Even when we use the bottom side doors, the uncomposted material on top (that didn't compost over the Winter because it was too cold) falls down and blocks access.
If the Fall, we'll switch to filling up the other bin. That should allow us to completely empty the previous season's compost bin when Spring comes.
We eat a lot of fruit, veggies, and eggs on the GAPS diet . . . this 5 gallon bucket makes trips to the compost tumbler less frequent.
Our first tumbler composter has served us well, but can no longer
perform the duties we require of it. We broke down and bought a
replacement off ebay. These are spendy at $300, but they do such a
amazing job. I was certainly tempted to roll my own with that kind of
price tag. Sometimes it is nice just to have something that you know
works. Assembling this device took us a good ninety minutes. I don't
really want to spend two days building one from the ground up.
Leavings from cleaning out the compost extractor will be put on Alec McIntosh's garden. The extractor uses water and air to concentrate living biology in compost into liquid that can be used in sprayers, seeders, and other equipment to jump start soil biology. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022