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This little structure represents me finally winning over Rob to composting after a three year long argument.
(Thanks to Franny for the 'collection' in the foreground)
Harvest of compost in my garden: the lower part of the pile is black gold --banana peels, orange peels, all the kitchen scraps alive with worms and other creepy crawlies.
367 // November 11, 2008
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!
The wall surrounding the Gentleman's Garden at Ferryland, Newfoundland.
Seen at the Colony of Avalon, Ferryland, Newfoundland.
My wife wanted a way to sift the large chunks out of the compost so we made this with stuff we had in the garage. The only thing we bought was the mesh.
Erica Jane Meier, agriculture education graduate, Greg Frank, agriculture business & management senior, and Tyler Barlow, general agriculture senior, work together on Mueller farm's compost site. The students dispose food waste they've collected from dining halls in an eco-friendly manner by creating compost mounds to be used in research projects.
Things that the previous occupants of the house had put in the compost bin that won't rot. Unlike the dozen or so eggs that they'd put in there three or four months ago without breaking the shells, they had rotted and one or two of them were still unbroken until I disturbed them with the shovel. They exploded like grenades, nasty smelly grenades
Jeremy Mak, an American volunteer at the Mekong School in Chiang Mai, piles organic matter on the compost pile on the NEED-Burma model organic farm near Chiang Mai. This farm was set up by the NGO to teach organic farming principles to farmers from Burma, many of whom have lost traditional farming knowlege due to strong state control of crops, fertilizers and pesticides.
NEED-Burma is the Network for Environment and Economic Development, a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that operates out of its head office in Chiang Mai, Thailand. NEED has been in operation since March of 2006. They are an inclusive network that is non-ethnic specific, with the mission: to work towards strengthening Burmese civil society so that all the people of Burma may benefit from the practice of endogenous and holistic development strategies, based on economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable ideas.
Chiang Mai, Thailand. November 2007.
I was impressed with how all the food waste at JavaOne was composted. I think San Francisco's laws and initiatives deserve most of the credit, but the organizers of JavaOne were really environmentally focused too.
Mostly fresh vegetable scraps, some egg shells, leaf trimmings from an invading ivy, dirt/roots of come grass I pulled out of the garden. I try to avoid adding things with seeds because those seeds don't always get kill and will sprout later on. I had lots of little unwanted tomato plants because of this last season :)
The previous owners of the house had left, among other things, a sheet of wire screening. Using a couple of twist ties, I turned it into a pretty decent compost sifter
A view of my compost piles. The raspberries got ahead of me this year so there's no room to feed the far end. I generally have 3 adjacent piles, 3 feet wide, side by side. The far end in this photo is the active end, shaped by plastic-coated wire on PVC pipe-fence posts. the nearer end has a wooden shipping pallet as a back wall.
My wife wanted a way to sift the large chunks out of the compost so we made this with stuff we had in the garage. The only thing we bought was the mesh.
I mashed about in the back yard & woods, then decided to turn the big compost pile. Added stuff from to small bins. Inner core steaming! Wow!
I didn't turn my compost at all last winter and it froze. I'm gonna keep turning this winter to have garden compost early spring :)
Really something to see what looks like a pile of snow, is actually food & leaf waste breaking down to essential elements, high nutrient dirt.
This pic featured on my blog Veggie Mama
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.
Lots of tiny bugs amongst the leaves on top of the compost heap at the moment. A tiny bark fly nymph
so far the worm farm is multiplying and seems pretty healthy. soon enough there should be enough of them to be able to keep up with all our waste.
Basically three steps,
1. Put included plastic grate to divide solid and liquid waste
2. Coat grate with layer of Bokashi
3. Cut up food scraps
4. Cover with Bokashi
5. Cover
One point of confusion, you are supposed to have a "plastic, cardboard or stainless steel barrier to prevent the new food's contact with the air in the bucket. They suggest a pizza box (which I didn't have). I found a paper plate that only covers about 3/4 of the compost.