Thème: Recyclage

Our completed compost had tons and tons of worms!

Blogged here: www.joeysplanting.com/2012/06/08/compost-and-worms/

Adam Schwartz demonstrating the new compost tea system.

Lucy posing by our new indoor composter. The shaking head is because we just opened the top of it and the ripe smell has assaulted her sensitive terrier nose. WE haven't exactly worked the kinks out of what was promised to be "an odorless unit".

But kids, you can try this at home: leftcoastcowboys.blogspot.com/2008/07/brown-green-and-com...

After pruning the lemon tree, the compost heap had grown a wee bit.

Repetition

...new organic matter is added. This bin was started in October of 2006.

A composting facility that can accept digeste--the end byproduct of the biogas production process in an anaerobic digester. Watch the rows of compost get turned with this huge machine!

The underlaying frame. Fairly ugly, but it's doing job well enough.

Greenbridge helps community gardeners set up composting bins.

I received a "Bio-Orb" for my birthday from Mindy and Juan. We put it together over the course of a few days because it's the time of year when mosquitoes swarm in the backyard. I was outside for a minute and I looked down to see about 10 mosquitoes on one leg. Anyway, it's together and filled and I'm very excited to get some easy compost out of it. If you're looking for one, see www.planetnatural.com/site/bio-orb-composter.html.

Crazy for Composting at The New York Botanical Garden 2/15/14

Crazy for Composting at The New York Botanical Garden 2/15/14

But in all seriousness, the sheep manure are used with the composting pulp to produce a rich fertilizer for the coffee trees. They plan to buy more sheeps.

Home made Compost Tumbler from recycled materials

leading lines

This pile was started in the rainy season. It contains all the sweepings and prunings from my terrace garden. It has slowly broken down over time. I did have to attack the harder bits like twigs and stems with secateurs. As the pile grew, I would stomp on it like the ancient wine makers used to do to their grapes. Stomp carefully if you are wearing slippers, you don't want to puncture yourself with sharp twiggy ends. Stomping does tend to crunch it down some more. Under this pile of leaves and dried twigs, I have a nice black mixture of broken-down garden leavings, which now I am adding to my compost pot as an accelerator.

Our completed compost had tons and tons of worms!

Blogged here: www.joeysplanting.com/2012/06/08/compost-and-worms/

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Tumbleweed Compost Bin

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My pallet turned double-composter, France.

I was told when I was a kid that no matter how good looking a plastic cup was to you, you can't have it forever.

Now adding the compost

Compost!

Compost rows in early morning with water vapor escaping. Lots of active microorganisms means high quality finished compost.

Infographic on indoor composting via Sustainable America

These sit by the back door so they can be slipped on when we take things down to the compost

This compost...is made of people!

Beautiful wooden compost bin; 2-Bin Montessori

This is the shredded paper used as bedding. They eventually just eat it all. And no, it doesn't stink! The worms eat all the gunk that forms on the food. We only put vegetable peelings and other plant matter in here. No meat.

For a AP still life competition

My cheesecloth full of dead plants, I tied it up with a piece of jute. A giant, probably-not-too-tasty tea bag!

A fun reaction to my not-even-trying-to-be-sneaky photograph at the SOTJ Farmers Market.

Nikon F (now retired)

Kodak Tri-X 400 @3200

Natural composter at work.

Shots of our *well used* K-Cup compost tool that is 3d printed from Shapeways:

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