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This small slum has no healthy soil for growing vegetables and herbs. Residents learned how to make soil through a compost. A woman weaves bamboo around the compost to make a basket. The container gardens and compost lessons are funded by Southern Baptist World Hunger Funds. (Photo by Susie Rain)
Repost @dart_humanitarian_engineering: The Compost Tea team has been hard at work these past couple of weeks training our new members and setting up the newest research experiment in the Life Sciences Center. The project has its sights set high for the term - conducting research in the greenhouse and at the organic farm, continuing collaboration with Ecuador and planning travel, and competing in an eco challenge. A team will be traveling to DC this friday to present and compete against 30 other finalists, so keep an eye out for further updates!
These two compost piles are half of our composting system, two 6'x6'x4' bins made from timbers and lumber. We've accumulated plenty of organic matter since the fall -- we throw in torn up junk mail, various paper waste products, pretty much whatever will rot, even meat and cheese, both of which people caution against composting, but I've never had any trouble with them.
Our chickens also provide a ton of nutrients and organic matter via their bedding (straw) mixed with their droppings. This will all likely end up in our newly planted forest and veg garden in the spring as sheet mulch material.
Time to harvest. Wonder Worman’s Super Composting Red Wigglers were busy of the summer - and it’s time to gather up the compost.
Final Compost from the DRANCO plant in Muenster after the post-digester SORDISEP process. The starting feedstock is black bin or residual waste.
The composting operation: community garden members and the church recycle various materials for compost.
Volunteers on a Smaller World Tour to work with SHI's program in Panama worked with families in Tranquilla on a tree nursery project. The group collected sand, sifted soil and mixed in compost to make a potting mix. This community tree nursery will provide mahogany seedlings for a watershed reforestation project, a big step in improving the community's access to water, restoring soil quality and providing wildlife habitat. In addition to planting native hardwood trees like mahogany, the families are working with SHI to grow fruit trees.
SHI participant Migdalia Rodriguez walked us through her orderly rows of pineapple planted along the contours of a small slope next to her home and she told the volunteers, "It is my grandchildren who will enjoy the mahogany trees, but in just a few years we can harvest citrus, plantains and bananas... See the pineapples that SHI helped me with? Daysbeth [local SHI field trainer] brought me some seedlings and showed me how to plant them so the soil wont wash away. My children love the pineapples. I have two types and I'll have a good crop this year... I've been working with SHI for three years. At first I wasn't sure about joining with the organization, but now I know that they can really help people like me to make improvements in the short-term as well as help us plan for our futures... I tell everyone about the confidence that SHI has had in me and what good work they do. At first some people don't believe just like I didn't, but they can see my stove, my pineapple and now my tree nursery as proof of the results from SHI."