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The bedding and first batch of food is here already with enough moisture (drainage is part of the system) and microbes already breaking down the food. The whole system should be running well in a few days when I welcome the worms to their new home. More to come.
Air pruning free flow compost tea maker. Add grass cutter clippings and water, wait for a few days, pour out extremely good fertilizer and bugs repellant. Dilute 1:10.
Future Prairie Potholes Pieces
size-ish 23 x 21 inches
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.
The bin after yesterday's kitchen scraps and yard waste. Unturned.
Black gold indeed! Though it doesn't grow very fast. It seems like I get it filled almost to the top, then a week later, its back at half again. I guess once the water leaches out of it, it looses most of it's volume.
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.
our soil builders group composted 25 pallets worth of wasted food this weekend.
everything was bagged, wrapped in plastic or clamshelled except for the melons and cabbages...
for reference, this tractor load of blueberries was about 1/10 of one pallet.
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