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Finally tried out the sifter. Worked pretty well. Most of the fines come through in the first three feet.
So, I quit my job and chose to spend over $100 on compost, mulch and pea straw.
Sure, I could have spent the money on food, but this investment will make my garden (and vegetables) grow better.
If you are never sure what goes in which bin at Ellwoods Coffeeshop, Whole Foods shows you exactly what goes in which.
Making compost in a manure spreader, the recipe is simple, straw or wood chips as a bulking agent, food wastes, some weeds and some college students to mix it all together. Let bake for a few weeks and turn every now and then, and eventually you get wonderful compost. Plants will love you for it.
LEAF OR LEAVES is the topic for Saturday 5th September, 2015
About 40% leaves; the rest is kitchen recyling, garden stuff, prunings, grass clippings, probably a little soil and whatever else I think I can compost. This compost has been brewing for three years . I was able to get ten wheelbarrow loads from this bin. We have seven in total; this was the largest one.
This is one of our four compost bins. We made it using discarded wooden palettes (and a little chicken wire). The bungie cords are holding the front door closed.
This pile has been cooking for a few months, and it was time to spoon it out for mixing in with a new garden are I worked on today. There was a good three wheel barrows full of dark meaty dirt and lots of worms.
We collect vegetable scraps and coffee grounds each week and then throw them in a compost bin in the back yard.
Saving the world. We used to talk about who would do it and how the world would be saved when we were kids. Heck, most kids love that sort of imaginative lifestyle, arguing with friends which superhero was stronger. What villain would try to take over the world. And how it would be saved.
As adults, we have the power to do the saving now. And the world isn’t exactly trending in a positive direction as of late. I’m sure you’ve heard many opinions and read a handful of articles all covering the #Amazon #Rainforest fires.
No matter where you stand, though, there are a few things that are certain: climate change is happening, and it’s best to make some changes in your life sooner rather than later. You have the power to help save the world, just as every other person does. Why continue to leave it up to politicians to get the job done when that’s proven time and time again to simply not be enough?
So, what can you do? There are multiple things that are out there available as resources for you to get started, but the one we’re going to focus on today is composting. So, why does composting help so much?
Reduces trash in landfills
The more you can keep your #materials and #waste in circulation, the less it ends up sitting in a landfill doing no one any good and the earth more harm. If you can keep your food waste and paper waste (did you know you can put cardboard, like cheap moving boxes, in your compost bin?) out of trash, you’re reducing your impact on a landfill. (Bonus points if you recycle and effectively put nothing in the trash.)
Great for the soil and earth
By composting, you’re directly creating a place for fresh soil to grow. Having worms help the decomposition process only helps, as you’ll be able to make freshly made soil that can help other plants you may have grow stronger and healthier. It’s a win win for the #environment, your wallet, and your plants. And like we mentioned above, you can even put old, cheap moving boxes in your compost so long as they’re broken down and wet when you place it within. Since it acts like wood that’s fallen from a tree, it can only be nutritional for the soil and worms in your compost.
Limits food waste
The more food you toss out instead of trying to compost, the more you’re wasting things and opportunities. Why not try to make your food count, even if you don’t eat it all? Instead of letting it rot in a dumpster, you could be putting it back into soil for future food to grow. That’s thinking ahead in an extremely sustainable and environmentally friendly way.
I moved the compost bin to the end of the yard. I spread the compost from it into the space where the garden will be.
Our new compost pile. The sides are branches, simply stacked on top of each other. (That's a Helen and Scott Nearing plan)
September
16 other photographs from this group (not this one!) are published as:
'Compostion'
ISBN 9781-870736-17-6
17 large Premium colour photographs plus an Afterword
36 pages, 216 x 280mm, Hardback.
Retail price: £18 $25
Short Description: A book of 17 photographs taken of my compost caddy whenever I found the contents interesting because of the colours or composition of elements or both. The photographs were taken with natural light from a skylight which gives a variation in the speed and aperture used. This information is recorded on the facing page with date of capture. The camera used was always a Sigma DP2 with Foveon sensor.
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Maybe a strange subject for a photograph, but taken more out of frustration than for artistic merit:
I bought a whole of vegetables yesterday on special - and today I saw that the carrots had already gone rotten so I threw then all in the compost. What a waste!
Tom Gilbert, Executive Director of Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, Vermont, shows off some of the local compost. (Keith Shields, NHPR)
Yeah I know it looks like a pile of straw, and it is. It just has a bunch of gross other stuff in it too, stuff like food wastes and some semi-completed compost, it gets technical, in the end it is really a nice addition to any soil, plants really like it.
For the kitchen to hold veggie scrapes, egg shells, coffee grounds, etc. before I add them to my compost barrel.
Compost boxes made from recycled wood, for St Peter's Church Brighton @stpeters_church stpetersbrighton.org/
Maine-based permaculturalist Jon Ippolito helps rebuild the compost pile at Bonsallo Ave (South Los Angeles), residence of LA Green Grounds members Vanessa Vobis and Craig Dietrich (Photo by CD)