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I take my slowly thawing compost over to Kerry's for further decomposition... at least, until the City gets municipal composting for those of us living in higher density housing.

Spent coffee grounds improve soil structure and kill slugs. Photo by Pete Petryszak.

Gary turning the compost with the front loader. This is the compost that we started last fall with the pumpkins.

"There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than

one rooted in pavements."

- Aldo Leopold

This year my house mates and I planted our first garden and started the requisite compost pile.

I am very interested in our relationship to the food that we consume as a species and decided to dig through my compost to begin this exploration of food.

Deti Picasso

Arménia / Rússia

Festival Músicas do Mundo Sines 2007

21 Julho 2007, Porto Covo, 00h30

Música arménia e o rock experimental russo em fusão inesperada.

Chamam-se “Filhos de Picasso” e uma coisa é certa: a sua música desenha-se de tudo menos de traços lineares. Compostos por dois arménios (os irmãos Gaya e Garen Harutyunyan, voz e guitarra eléctrica) e três russos (Vadim Kuznetsov, violoncelo, Alexey Filippik, baixo, Bogdan Bobrov, bateria), a jovem banda Deti Picasso faz rock com acentuado travo de acidez sobre melodias de canções tradicionais da Arménia. Sedeados em Moscovo, de cuja cena experimental são originários, foram considerados a melhor nova banda russa de 2002 e têm um amplo grupo de seguidores no seu país e países vizinhos. A música alterna momentos plácidos, quase ambientais, com explosões psicadélicas, onde estão em evidência a guitarra de Garen e, sobretudo, a voz fulgurantemente mal-comportada de Gaya, situável num território agreste.

Já com três discos gravados desde 2002 (“Mesyac Ulibok”, “Ethnic Experiments” e, o último, de 2006, “Glubina”), os Deti Picasso representam a música cativante e incatalogável da Rússia do séc. XXI.

Os filhos de Picasso são:

Gayane Arutyunyan, voz

Karen Arutyunyan, guitarra

Vadim Kuznetsov, violoncelo

Alexey Filippik, baixo

Bogdan Bobrov, bateria

Textos editados a partir do texto original do site oficial do festival: www.fmm.com.pt

I have just made some improvements to my compost heap. I added pallets to the sides so that I can pile it even higher than before. I got the pallets for free. Because of the spaces between the slats, I tacked on some scrap plywood to keep the leaves/compost material from escaping. The base is four foot lengths of 4 inch by four inch treated lumber. Off to the right you notice my auxiliary composting area. This is site of a former outdoor barbeque from the 1960s and there is a cement patch on the ground. This makes it easy to use a shovel to dig up my finished product which is deep black compost.

I put all sorts of food waste from the kitchen into the compost and leaves I rake from the yard. Also garden waste. We put much less garbage at the streetside pick up than other residents on our street.

We emptied out half of the black gold from our two worm beds this

morning. Various plants and trees around the property were showing

discoloration. In less than a hour we had buried little stashes or

simply liquified and poured the compost our worms had been breaking

down for weeks.

September

NYC Compost Project in Brooklyn manager Jenny Blackwell performing public outreach.

Level of compost extract pumped into a sprayer. 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

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The back just slides up and the compost dumps out. Still working on a rod to hold the sides rigid so the tailgate doesn't fall out but for now the ratchet strap will work.

Garden, January 28, 2012. Composted horse manure was procured on January 15, 2012.

Boa Vista, 8 de março de 2023 – No norte do Brasil, entre os estados do Amazonas e Roraima, fica localizada a Terra Indígena Yanomami, uma área de 96.650 km² que equivale à soma dos territórios do Haiti, Jamaica, Porto Rico e República Dominicana. O local possui mais de 31 mil habitantes considerados pela Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (Funai) como “povos de recente contato” – indígenas que mantêm relações com segmentos da sociedade nacional, apresentam singularidades nessa relação e seletividade na incorporação de bens e serviços, mantendo suas formas de organização social e dinâmicas coletivas próprias, com alto grau de autonomia em sua relação com o Estado e a sociedade.

Alcançar os yanomami é uma tarefa desafiadora – 98% do acesso às comunidades precisa ser feito por via aérea e os 2% restantes são por via terrestre. Além disso, ações de desmatamento e mineração ilegal prejudicaram a área ao longo dos anos, inclusive com contaminação por mercúrio e outros metais pesados, que – segundo o Ministério da Saúde brasileiro – atingiu não somente os rios da região, mas também o solo e os animais, impactando diretamente na alimentação indígena, que é composta principalmente pela pesca, caça, coleta de frutos e raízes, além da agricultura.

Esse cenário agravou casos de desnutrição, infecção respiratória aguda, diarreia, malária e tungíase (bicho-do-pé) nessa população. Por isso, o governo federal do Brasil declarou no dia 20 de janeiro de 2023 uma Emergência de Saúde Pública de Importância Nacional (ESPIN) relacionada à situação dos povos que vivem no território Yanomami, localizado em solo brasileiro – também há yanomamis que vivem do outro lado da fronteira, na Venezuela.

Para apoiar a resposta à emergência, a Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde (OPAS) tem cooperado tecnicamente com o Ministério de Saúde do Brasil desde o dia 15 de janeiro, quando participou da missão exploratória que permitiu aprofundar o diagnóstico sobre essa situação e levantar os subsídios para uma assistência sanitária emergencial.

Atualmente, em coordenação com o Ministério da Saúde e outras instituições nacionais e subnacionais do Brasil, bem como a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), sociedade civil, Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs) e agências das Nações Unidas, a OPAS colabora com a resposta tanto nas comunidades indígenas quanto no Centro de Operação de Emergências em Saúde Pública (COE Yanomami).

A imagem mostra o COE Yanomami em operação simultânea em Brasília (sede do Ministério da Saúde) e Boa Vista (sede do DSEI Yanomami).

Mais informações: www.paho.org/pt/historias/opas-trabalha-em-cooperacao-tec...

Foto: Karina Zambrana/MS/OPAS/OMS.

Was kinda lame. Very dull.

Dead springtails (Collembola) and dark-winged fungus gnat (Sciaridae) found on the surface of a tiny puddle on the top of our compost bin.

A barrel shaped rotatable plastic compost bin.

Just a three sided structure to contain the finished compost. This one I can get at with the front-end loader.

Compost

Compost event at Haggerston Park on 8th May 2010

Let's talk composting

In the process of turning one pile, sifting compost out of it as I go.

Soil aggregation in disc drilled soils (L) versus hoe drilled soils (R). The sample on the left shows more aggregation which allows for more water infiltration and storage. Larry Johnson, Shawn Preputin (R), 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

Making of compost on plot of land that has benefited from use of treadle pump.

Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/J. Spaull. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO

Spring daffs meet the red berries from Xmas being finally cleared out of the fridge

March

Master Composter trainees demonstrate aerating a compost bin. Photo by Jenny Blackwell.

a view of the compost pile

Beautiful wooden compost bin; 2-Bin Montessori

Compost extract. 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

We found hundreds of worms under a broken compost bin in our community garden in Cambridge. We observed carefully how they were clumped in fairly wet areas of heavy-ish organic material that was infused with lots of straw. It smelled great so we knew the worms and the system were happy. We brought them home and arranged them in a bin, trying to maintain the "feel" and smell of the ecosystem we took them out of.

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.

Looking inside through the door. The screens on either side would normally be parked so that they are top and bottom. Each screen covers three holes. More holes can be added later if necessary.

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outside the back door.

adding the kitchen waste to the compost bin

An compost pile of grapes that didn't make the cut for wine making