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Is this fun or what?!? Layering straw and horse manure into a big pile to cook up some fabulous compost for next year
Another aerial view of a local compost and soil amendment business. This one was taken from a different angle and has some additional colors in it.
Taken by a camera lofted my a kite.
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I got this slightly upmarket compost bin (well very upmarket compared to my usual home made compost retention solutions!) during the week. I was unreasonably excited today putting it together and filling it ( I cut the grass, pulled some weeds from gravel, cleared out the henhouse, added a bin of shreded hedge cuttings from last year, tore up collected cardboard, a bag of straw that got damp and added some cold produced compost that will be very weedy unless I give it a good heating in a new heap. So satisfying & 14k steps!
I do think I have the ratios roughly right and that the whole thing will be getting hot by tomorrow evening. It will shrink and I will add another few batches of material over next 2-3 weeks
The Clash - Cool Under Heat
I made my first batch of compost in my Lomi yesterday. It takes around 3-5 hours to process one gallon of solid compost. I have a compost bin in my kitchen that I put vegetable and fruit scraps in on a daily basis. Once that is full, I empty that into my Lomi and process. It yields about 2-3 cups of ready-to-use compost. I'll do this over the winter and save what I don't use for my shade garden and seed starting next Spring.
The Flickr Lounge-Plug It In
This works very well. I will have a lot of compost come spring to put on my plants.
While the kettle was boiling this morning, light on these food scraps caught my attention,so a quick photo-shoot while the tea was brewing!
I have three large clay pots filled with fabulous pinecones in my garden. Today I discovered that I now have a compost heap in one of the pots. Love nature.
Operated by: Wastenot Compost Inc. Chicago, IL
Unit Number: n/a
Body: Par-Kan 6YD?
Chassis: BYD
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Seen in the Loop servicing a commercial stop.
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An early Kentrail Enthusiast Group visit was to the British Rail Eastern Region Poppleton Plant Nursery. This location beside Poppleton station on the York to Harrogate line provided plants for station displays on the northern end of the BR Easter Region. The site had an operational 2ft gauge Motor Rail diesel which was used to haul tubs around the site with compost or soil in. Sadly on the day of our visit the locomotive driver had been called away to attend to a fallen tree near Halifax on the lineside so our party had to make do with Human propulsion to cover the network of lines between the greenhouses.
Fascinating bit of decay in the old railroad repair shop, which also was a repository for millions of sheets of paper records. The roof has rotted into a spider web, so it has been pouring water onto these file cabinets for decades. As a result, the metal is peeling apart like an onion and the paper is turning back into pulp.
It’s remarkable to think of all the hours spent writing, typing and archiving this stuff by hand — it’s mostly from the pre-computer era.
October
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:
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Compositionally Challenged Week 19 is Made of Wood.
These compost bins are made of old, weathered cedar fence boards.
Compost sign in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
Part of an ongoing series of Creative Commons images of signs.
Submitted for competition themed "Artful Trash". Consists of coffee grounds and egg shells.
Received a 7 and honorable mention.