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Time or money invested in your garden’s soil always brings the best returns: healthy, vigorous plants and great harvests. And when you keep yard waste and kitchen scraps from the landfill you’re doubly rewarded. You can buy ready-made, organic compost to get a jump start. But it’s easy and inexpensive to make your own with the right materials and good equipment.
Pretty Handy Girl made a perfect guide for beginners.
So what can be composted? Basically only raw fruits and veggies (and egg shell) kitchen scraps. Here is the basic list:
Kitchen scraps
raw fruits
vegetables
egg shells
Coffee grounds and the filter
Newspapers, non-glossy cardboard, paper towels
Leaves (brown for carbon and green for nitrogen rich)
Grass clippings
Plant & flower clippings
Yard waste
What can’t be composted?
Meats
Dairy products
Processed foods
Plastic
Man made substances
Metals
Of course, we suggest you to build the perfect compost bin from pallets. Now you can start to get a beautiful garden soil next spring:
Our compost bins are filled to the brim... mostly with all the fallen leaves from our garden and from my brother's humungous Planetree
With the overgrown grass mown in most of the garden, it's time for stage two. There is a large, old compost pile in one of the far corners of the property. The compost wasn't maintained properly. So I'm layering it with the new grass and hay so it can build up heat, kill the seeds from the hay, and decompose properly. 1.5 piles of give or take 5 is done. At some point, I'll have to turn them all again. but we're hoping for high-quality nutrition for next year's crops.
Fungi in my Compost Bin. I had in that compost bin, rotting Malay Apples, small tropical fruit. These fungi were growing and I actually had my head in this bin to get these closeups. It sounds gross but they are small and I had to get close to get the macros, and the bin did not smell. LOL. A few more of these can be seen in this SET:- www.flickr.com/photos/25747229@N00/sets/72157594504333027/
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Compost bins sitting side by side, flanked by two free-ranging hens looking for insects. The symmetry of this image still amuses me.
Compost Worm Bin Workshop at UMass Amherst for Earth Day 2016.
Photographer credit: Keith Toffling
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clay, moss, compost, wheatpaste, freeform crocheted/knitted pine,linen, paper, seeds, cotton, silk ,seeds and water
I,ve thrown it all into the end bin now. Its quite hard work, maybe takes an hour, and you work up a sweat. I block off the front with a thermal board to keep the compost in place and cover the top with plastic sheet to keep the moisture in. The little red worms will invade it now and it will be ready for use next winter / spring. Further heaps will be added throughout this year, so the left hand bin should be full by Christmas time.
"Compost" - marker on paper - 7" x 5" - 2010 // $25
For Sale at www.emichaelbenjamin.com from Nov. 7 thru the 21st, 2014.
A tiny beetle, a species of Nitidulidae, hanging around the compost heap. Como NSW Australia, July 2012.
Repost @dart_humanitarian_engineering: Our Compost Tea team presented their project and business model in Washington, DC this weekend and were honored to be selected as national finalists for the Global Grand Challenge. The project aims to roll out sustainable urban agriculture solutions in Quito, Ecuador over the next two years. We are so grateful for this experience and opportunity to meet other engineers making change, and the feedback we’ve gained has been invaluable. Next week, we find out if we have been selected to go to London for the Global finals—two out of four finalists will advance!
Led by Rick Hatcher, Board Member for the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (HARD) & Rob Bennaton, UC Cooperative Extension Director for Alameda and Contra Costa County and Bay Area Urban Agriculture Advisor
Seed Lending Library participants learned how to improve their gardens and reduce waste by starting and maintaining a compost and worm bin. Rick Hatcher, Rob Bennaton, and master gardener Irene Beebe provided hands-on instruction at this workshop for beginners.
Green waste can easily be converted into a valuable soil amendment for your garden, resulting in more productive vegetables or flowers. This conversion is known as “composting”... “recycling” your green waste. Worm composting is a simple, natural method for converting fruit and vegetable scraps from your yard and kitchen into rich nutrients. The worms, with help from micro-organisms, convert the bedding and food waste into compost within a few weeks. The resulting compost is an excellent soil amendment that can be used as a fertilizer for your garden.
This workshop was presented as part of the Hayward Seed Lending Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Hayward Library. The Seed Lending Library operates as a community seed exchange. "Check out" a variety of vegetable and flower seeds to plant in your personal garden. In return, consider harvesting some of the seeds from mature plants for your own use and for sharing with the Seed Lending Library. It's easy to become a member or volunteer - learn more at: hayward-ca.gov/seeds. Join the Hayward Seed Lending Library Club's interactive forum on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/haywardseeds/
On November 1, 2014, one day after Halloween, a group (I have since forgotten the name) or organization was hosting an event in Rotary Park in Saskatoon where participants could bring their carved pumpkins to show off. All pumpkins would eventually be composted. Here, my best friend is lighting 'candles' (LED lights).
Chocolate and butterscotch chip cookies with potato chips, pretzels and coffee. Sweet Pea Bakery in Bozeman, Montana