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It was completely full of yard waste, weeds, bush clippings and some rabbit poop. I put some water in, closed the lid and rolled it around the yard. Already it is compacting a bit. I'll close up the lid now and check on it in a few weeks.
First batch of the year. This one has composted manure from the horses, Ella Mae, Misty (sigh), sheep, turkeys, pigs, chickens. Then egg shells and kelp. In a few days, I'll add in the filters from making maple syrup.
It's bubbling from an air pump.
Marni Thompson (R), NRCS soil health specialist, Digs to observe soil strucutre and crop roots and uses 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 soil and crop. Larry Johnson, Shawn Preputin (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
A droite, les déchets verts de l'année dernière et de ce début de printemps. A gauche, le compost mûre de la saison précedente. Ce compost va être épandu dans le jardin et le bac de droite va prendre sa place.
Time to harvest. Wonder Worman’s Super Composting Red Wigglers were busy of the summer - and it’s time to gather up the compost.
This is the way I pile up the medium on one side of the bin. It balances the environment in more ways than one.
Most important, it weights the contents to one side of the tipped bin so the operation doesn't collapse.
But the piled up medium also provides extra oxygen for the worms, good drainage, and an opportunity for yours truly to play in the muck.
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Marni Thompson (L), NRCS soil health specialist, squeezes moisture out of working compost. 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
Under the toilet seat is a bucket...do what you need to do, cover with sawdust, then thank the Compost Crew for taking the buckets away to the compost pile! Beware the giant ants at night... and baby rattlers. Sweet's mill 2008
My all scrap wood compost bins. The original on the left and the new one on the right. I should add two more boards to the new one but I'm out of scrap lumber! The sizes are generous 50" by 60" deep.
Corn in background is fertilized using composted cow dung / straw mixture (in foreground), which is left over from confinement rearing. This is another advantage of confinement rearing.
Composting shed at Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh. Project recently won the Chairmans prize at the Scottish Design Awards and the photos have been all over the internet as a result.
You can get all fancy with layering different types of green waste (grass clippings, vegie scraps) and brown waste (newspaper, prunings), but we just chuck it all in and it works out eventually :)
Since starting the compost bin, we barely fill our kitchen bin each week, which really reduces our contribution to landfill.