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The sunlight coming in through the window is making the fabric look a bit washed out.
A student sits down for a consultation with the compost "doctor" at the Tompkins County Compost Fair held at the Cooperative Extension Education Center.
May 1, 2010.
Not sure what this is, growing out of my neighbour's compost barrel (I did notice that there were some old potatoes in there but I am not sure what potato plants look like when they flower). The flowers are pretty, but I was really shooting the slug.
Nicolas said he thought we should throw the compoast away as it is so infested with slugs but I thought that was a waste. To be honest, the existing soil is infested so we might as well make it richer. I am sure this is the first compost the garden has seen in a while. The slugs and I will just have to live together. Until I buy some Nemaslug!
Another season of success for the compost bin. Four wheelbarrow loads and still plenty for the neighbours to share.
This is the first photo I have taken with my Canon 40D. It was taken with the standard 18-55 kit lens. I think I'm going to like this camera. Oh and there's probably no one that will really appreciate this photo of a future compost pile. Except maybe my friend KarenMarleneLarsen, a true conneseur and Mother Earth News charter subscriber. It's not really a dedication, because she deserves more than future compost. But I know she will appreciate it. Meanwhile I'm going to find more subjects for this camera.
24 hours later and you can see virtually all the stuff I added yesterday is gone. Some of the stuff in the middle was added this morning, The soldier fly larvae love the coffee grounds.
Our cafeteria at work switched over from plastic cups and silverware to these bio-compostable ones. I thought I would save the ones I use (and some of my co-worker's) and put them in my compost pile to see how they do.
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I have a generous size backyard so this area is set aside specifically for compost. It was once heavily shaded by an oleander hedge on both my and my neighbor's side. Something has hit the oleanders in my part of the valley and these have all died.
The area usually has 4 large piles in various stages of decomposition or readiness. At present I just broke one pile down and I'm working on another.
Since I have so much compost I'm in no hurry for any of it anymore and I take an extremely passive approach. Individual piles may or may not ever get turned. They contain garden and kitchen waste and remnants of even large branches, stumps and roots (those unfortunate oleander) as well as grass clippings and chipped smaller branches. There are also dried leaves but I shred the bulk of the leaves and return them to planting beds as mulch.
The nasturtiums on the left are volunteers. I could plant some on the fence section on the right but, frankly, this whole area is a utility area fenced off from the backyard proper so I don't really care too much about appearances here.
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
My covert compost bin. I cut the bottom off and buried it about 10 inches deep. Then I filled it with yard waste and leaves, and mulched around it with leaves.
Harvest of compost in my garden: the lower part of the pile is black gold --banana peels, orange peels, all the kitchen scraps alive with worms and other creepy crawlies.
After years of wanting one, I finally got a compost bin! Next to it: a bucket of dirt and worms and a stolen bag of yard waste my neighbor threw out!
Shots of our *well used* K-Cup compost tool that is 3d printed from Shapeways:
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