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The sun sets as International Compost Awareness Week 2014 draws to an end

Fifth Graders are super excited to begin composting!

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

 

a 3 bin compost system I built from reclaimed pallets held together with long screws. I later added plywood lids to keep off the rain. Composting is really good for healing soil. Starts all sorts of biological activity.

I'd guess that between 10 and 15 pumpkins got carved this year. The bin was already pretty full and the squirrels had gotten into the yard buckets overnight.

6 bags of Mushroom Compost sure did not go very far!

Raw material to be added to the Johnson-Su bioreactor. 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

 

Marni Thompson (L), 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, 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

 

master composters class, san diego

 

found in a small flower pot.

Okra, apple, spaghetti squash, onion, etc.

Kailee Calnan (R), NRCS supervisory district conservationist, looks on as Alec McIntosh (L) exposes crop roots where compost extract was applied in the field. 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 made some compost bins (mostly) out of wood from our old fence.

Found a few plants growing in our compost bin. Our Red Wigglers have been hard at work!

Shawn puts the extract down with his seed using the liquid application set up on his hoe drill. 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

 

Last year's leaves - this year's compost.

using a pto-driven manure spreader to make a windrow of manure and straw bedding

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

 

Here I am putting a few extra holes in the bottom of our compost can (for drainage).

Inspect our diet in the last week!

 

Composting is a reflexive activity.

That's a lot of compost.

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

 

Just taking a pic of springtails and mites in the compost heap when...

 

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The soil in the flower beds is pretty ropey. It's full of stones, chunks of concrete, tin cans, bricks, broken glass, broken china... everything. I get the impression it hasn't been cultivated in a long time. I haven't got the energy to do what dad does. He digs it all out onto a huge taupauline. Then he sifts out all the stones and layers the hole with peat and bonemeal and all sorts of things... I decided to brush a thin layer of compost over it all.

The organic waste compost from all last year has turned into a very rich soil we're turning into the garden this year before planting.

Full compost bin with aeration tubes. 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 wanted to test how compostable this "compostable" bag really was. I put it in my worm bin for 4.5 months (enough time for all of the vegetable matter to be fully broken down).

 

This is what the bag looked like before composting.

COMPOSiTion

a recipe (do you want it?).

mint discarded,

too many old chives,

the dry wrapper of a garlic,

life must go on for death to happen.

September

Wet, raw material added to the Johnson-Su bioreactor. Shawn Preputin (R), Larry Johnson (L), 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

 

Wet, raw material added to the Johnson-Su bioreactor. Shawn Preputin (R), Larry Johnson (C), and Alec McIntosh (L), farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022

 

Made from all recycled materials, except for the hardware cloth.

Digging out the compost soil.

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. Kailee Calnan, NRCS supervisory district conservationist, learns about the process. Shawn Preputin (R), 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 is the worm compost bin after I finished emptying out the drip tray, cycling the bottom compost tray to the top, cleaning up, and finally putting down a protective plastic layer underneath to catch future drips.

Pictured with new Council compost bins in May, 2002 and the bulbs to be planted. Councillors were, from left, back - Frank Ellis, housing convener; Leila Martin, Colliston PS head teacher; April Shepherd,

Rory Morrow, Jo Mackenzie, Abbie Anderson, Mark Blake, Councillor Alistair Gray, local

councillor; and Sheena Welsh, convenor of environmental and consumer protection: front - Claire Munro, Sarah Martin and Donna Munro

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