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Witness the compost. I have three of these huge bins, the two you can see here and a new one I'm starting in between them.
I fill these bins with garden scraps, non-seedy weeds, yard trimmings and chicken litter. I don't bother turning them at all. I give them a little water once in a while and then screen them in the spring. Each bin makes 2-3 big garbage cans full of finished compost. I'm not quite to the point where I don't need to buy any compost, but I'm getting there.
I,m about half way through turning the compost into the end bin. This requires the compost to be chopped off vertically, in six inch slices with a spade. Then thrown over into the next bin, ensuring that it breaks up and gets plenty of air in it. Sometimes the compost can be quite dry and needs wetting, but this lot isn,t.
Compost
Paardenmest, bladeren, stro, juten, gips, leem. Geur van paardenmest en composteer proces.
2014
Turning over the compost, adding mulch, hay, and water. Plenitud eco farm, near Las Marias, western Puerto Rico.
So what's a "compost toilet"??? Just think of it as a "kitty litter box" :-)
Compost toilets have many environmental and financial advantages: they help conserve water, they help reduce the possibility of sewage or groundwater pollution, they eliminate the costs associated with maintaining sewers and septic systems, and their end product is actually beneficial for the environment (compost) instead of polluting.
My hubby's mom lives with us and she enjoys helping in the yard. Here she is having a lovely time watering. A nice Sunday afternoon.
Notice my nice big pile of yard compost in the back. Almost as big as she is. HA.
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
Compost fly - Scatopse sp. Think it must have recently emerged as the wings are not full length yet. Focus stacked using zerene
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
CUSO co-operant Nicolas Parenteau and Mekong School volunteer Jeremy Mak gather compost material from organic waste on the grounds of the Mekong School, near to the NEED Burma compound.
Nicolas was killed in a motorcycle accident on Feb 22, 2008 in Chiang Mai. He was working with NEED-Burma on integrating their traditional farming practices with newer sustainable agriculture theory. This series is dedicated to his memory.
Totally accidental example that high ISO does not stop you getting detail in a shot. Shot at ISO 800.
A compost fly with that blue lizard in the background again.
Scatopse sp.
The harvesting area. A discovered a rich area of soil with almost no debris in the bottom right of the picture (as noted).
Not the best photo, but an amazing cake. All that wonderful edible stuff on top was created by Seah.
This is the leftover after day one of juicing. (Mostly carrots, but also some beets, kale, ginger and cucumber.)
Cate has a very good juicing machine that extracts all of the juice/moisture from the fruit or vegetable and you are left with the dry remains of the original product.. I had been thinking of starting a compost pile, so I am going to save this and read up about compost piles.
I have ambitious plans for my yard next year.
(And yes, I cut my hair short last Friday.)
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
After a while things will start getting a little more decayed. I'm not turning this bin as much as I should so the egg shells are still whole. Turning is important because it aerates the sample, allowing for oxygen to be mixed into the compost and facilitate decay. Since I'm not using worms because my bins don't have drainage holes, turning is very important.
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...
“I need you”
Giovanni Gaggia
a cura di Claudio Composti
Special Guest Mona Lisa Tina
Spazio NovaDea, Ascoli Piceno
2 aprile / 3 giugno 2011
Fotografie di Daniele Camaioni, Fabrizio De Fabiis, Daniele De Angelis
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).
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.