Emptied compost bin. All ready for new composting

Day 1

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

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Getting Our Poop In a Group, Part Two: Building Compost Bins (May 13th, 2013)

Our first batch.

Here ELAB is setting the screen down so he can sift compost some more. The top fits into the bottom so it can slide back and forth and sift finished compost from the stuff that's too thick and needs to break down some more.

i cut out the whit part of the page - let's see how it works out.

New compost bins at the end of the garden

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.

Composting toilet doubles as a small greenhouse and also has a great view. The roof has a gutter which collects water for hand washing. Using biodegradable soap, the drain from the sink goes directly to the gardens in the bathroom. Toilet paper is from recycled paper. There are instructions on the wall that explain how to use the toilet and a book that describes how it all works.

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.

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

Well, it will be some day

Was kinda lame. Very dull.

Vince digs out about 15 gallons of rich, black compost for the garden. A lot of the organic waste you see has fallen from the top. We're going to try two bins and stop filling the one we want to empty in the spring.

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.

I'm in a compost class. Yeah I actually get credits for it and everything. This is an experiment where we are comparing two different bulking agents, wood chips vs straw. Here we are using a manure spreader to mix up the compost in an enclosed 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

Freightliner M2112 McNeilus Rear Loader

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.