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Making Off sobre uma pilha de composto biodinâmico, que adubara a lavoura de café (estou dando minha contribuiçao meditativa... rs)
Sao Jerônimo da Serra - PR - Brasil
FOTO: Egon Bertolaccini
Step 4: Add some "green" or "immature" material to the new bin. Here you see some of the kitchen scraps I mentioned earlier. My family helps collect the scraps between turnings, and I either add them in between by burying them in the top of the pile or I let them sit in bags and rot a little before adding them like this. The rotting gets them ready for the worms which don't really process any of the scraps until they are rotted.
This kind of material adds nitrogen to the compost pile. Ideally you want to have a 50/50 mix of nitrogen and carbon in the compost pile. Some ingredients have a higher N/C ratio than others, so you should consider what you are putting into the compost bin. For example, using lots of sawdust in a pile will increase the carbon ratio as sawdust has more concentrated carbon than say, leaves. Also, when you harvest something for the pile matters. Corn stalks that have not dried out and turned brown will have more nitrogen than carbon, so they would be considered a "green" material instead of a "brown" material. It really isn't that complicated, and I think it will mostly work out in the end if you just add consistent amounts of each type of material.
OSU Extension Master Gardener Larry Steele teaches a composting class as part of his volunteer payback hours. Photo by Lynn Ketchum.
I originally bought this bin and named it "Yard Waste" because my city used to have free curbside recycling of such things. With the recent budget cuts, they stopped that but still offer free regular trash pickup. Rather than put my yard waste in with the trash that ends up in the landfill, where it turns into methane gas, I'm attempting to turn this bin into a mini home composter by drilling holes into it for aeration.
I transferred one of our compost tumblers over to the worm bin. We recently found some window screens by a dumpster which I covered the worms bins with.
Watering a compost bin. Shawn Preputin (pictured), 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
This home built machine uses a concrete mixer and screen to separate the large and fine materials after the compost is finished. Only the fine materials will be used in the extractor. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh (pictured), farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
Marni Thompson, NRCS soil health specialist, examines crop roots where compost extract is applied in the field. Notice soil sticking to roots showing the formation of glomalin, a sugar that helps to glue soil aggregates together creating stable soils that are able to infiltrate and store more water. 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
Last of the flowering tulips and residue of this week's vegetable, fruit, and coffee consumption are relegated to the compost bin.
Mixing compost tea with our Black Gold - finished, cured home-turned compost - to brew overnight. Not appetizing to you and me, but I swear I see the plants in the garden perking up and salivating impatiently for it!
Compost pile bacteria - Wild Heerbrugg M20, HI 100 oil immersion, celestron imaging camera. sub micron
I made a thing. While not exactly fine woodworking, it is wood, and it should work fine. Lynda seems happy. Those front slats just lift out, so don't worry, she's not trapped in there.
Made an outdoor compost bin out of pallets, I can always expand this horzontally to 2-3 if I ever have that much material to add.
Everything from the Tomato & Pepper Garden is in this compost pile along with some leaves and existing compost...
I set up the second compost bin that I bought in January in one corner of the backyard.
Found blogged here:
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
i harvested my first batch of home made compost today and used it to enrich the soil in my new planter box...
how organic of me!
Marni Thompson (R), NRCS soil health specialist, and Shawn Preputin (L) use a brix meter to test the level of sugar in green growing crops where compost extract was applied in the field to help get a relative idea of the health of the plant. Larry Johnson, Shawn Preputin, 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
Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, mix wettened raw materials used to create compost extract that is prepared and applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022