1. Too hot, too much nitrogen. Add more carbon materials like the sawdust and dried weeds.

2. Too cold, not enough nitrogen. Add more nitrogen-rich materials like manure and green weeds. Better yet, pee on the compost stack to help activate it.

...today’s lesson was a great illustration of INFORMATION vs. CONCEPT.

Information without understanding will overload and paralyze you.

Understanding a concept allows you to process, filter and organize information in a way that empowers you to make an informed decision and act upon it.

It is the difference between

TEACHING vs. TELLING

EMPOWERING vs. ENABLING

KNOWING vs. UNDERSTANDING

Small shift in emphasis, massive shift in result.

see also thegreenbackpack.blogspot.com/2010/07/mongolian-permacult...

One of my resolutions this year was to help my compost to decay faster and have scissors by my small kitchen bin. When I canned the pineapple, I IMMEDIATELY cut up the skins and leaves.

The next step was to add a little dog food to my bigger outside porch compost bin (not all of the dog food in the bowl). This apparently helps the compost to decay faster (my goal).

BioFertile Farms workshop

with Eugenio Gras and Paul Taylor

Milkwood Farm, Mudgee, October 2010

www.MilkwoodPermaculture.com.au

Part of the 2010 Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series.

For our test garden, we upgraded from a 1-compost bin system to a 3-compost bin system. Photo by Andrew of www.gardenerd.com, where you can get more info.

Emily Osgood, Feffrey Garofalo Suzanne Cope

Photo Credit: Stephanie Eichman

Dumped my scraps in the green can. The paint can is my compost bin—sealable.

At Garden Organic when we won 'best group' at the Master Composters Conference

Working at the Superb Soil Station we teach our group of second graders the difference between dirt and soil and they get to dig in the compost pile!

What a great idea a compost bin is; your garden cuttings and vegetable matter from the kitchen are turned into compost for the garden... sadly the bin is like a supermarket for rats!

We decided to get rid of ours after our neighbour found our stuff across her garden and then the tunnels under the fence and up into the bin. So it has to go!!!

Compost Mentis - Manchester (2006) - Manchester Feast Festival. Photography by Paul Herrmann.

Photo by Emily Qualey / Garbage to Garden

The Kids dug around in the compost ditch, measured the temperatures.

2014 Farm Tour - Capay

Come out to the farm for one of our farm tours! Catch a ride on our tractor tram and head out to the field to get your hands dirty and harvest some produce!

Find out more about our Farm Fresh to You farm tours on our Events Page.

www.farmfreshtoyou.com

August 12, 2011 Open House

Photo: Marianne Mueller

Patrick Farwig and Kristen Melby are regular bicyclists for the Community Composting Project

This is the contentious compost bucket at work. Rather than empty it, people (me included) just scoot it out of the lunchroom and further and further down the hall when it starts to smell.

My son says "We are recycling the leaves."

...and other stuff previously added that is now rotting and composting, like this corn stalk from this past summer. I think that watching all this stuff decompose is just about as interesting as growing it in the first place. I enjoy turning the compost pile and really getting my hands dirty.

I built this! All by myself!

La Universidad de Texas Tech y la ONG Olive Branch, con el apoyo de la UDEP, instalaron una letrina compostable en La Campiña, con el fin de mejorar las condiciones de salubridad y cuidado ambiental.

Mindy has composting bins...it was great to use them while we were there. I'm hoping to start vermi-composting (worms that eat your garbage) on the road.

Comune di Brescia e A2A Ambiente hanno presentato la campagna di distribuzione gratuita dei sacchi di compost, prezioso fertilizzante, realizzati grazie alla raccolta differenziata del verde.

Brescia 28 ottobre 2017 Ph Christian Penocchio

Members of the Garden's Bronx Green-Up after working on a composting project.

Photo by NYBG Staff

Where the cups that aren't thrown away - and the spent coffee grounds - go, at Trabant Coffee.

Every day a group of Horticulture students bring the compost down to the greenhouses.

Compostador para el compostaje de los restos del huerto o jardín

Jon Stewart / Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (Rally to Restore Sanity / March to Keep Fear Alive) on the National Mall, Washington, DC

Compost fly - think this must be a pregnant female. About 3mm body length

Stock made from plant cellulose and compostable (ASTM D-6400)

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Dave signed us up for the Denver Composting Collection Pilot Program - we will be only one of 3,000 people in Denver to take part.

Reading over the materials, its really cool. They give us a huge green bin for outside as well as a mini container to keep inside the house (shown in the picture). We will be composting everything from used napkins and paper towels to leftover food, coffee filters and sticks/branches that Mr. Cub loves to chew on.

Hope it catches on -- soon we'll all be recycling and composting more than we throw out in trash.

All the prep waste from the kitchen is put in here for the red worms to compost. More restaurants should be doing this!

New compostabel dishware for the campus cafeteria

The wall surrounding the Gentleman's Garden at Ferryland, Newfoundland.

Seen at the Colony of Avalon, Ferryland, Newfoundland.