Castell de Montjuïc

biodynamic composting process

ready to be turned and wet down.

Raphael Garden, Rudolf Steiner College.

composting

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

I made this piece for the wlyb (e)motive exhibition 2010. It is made from piles of identical recycled postcards that I put in the compost bin for 6 months.

Giving the plants some rich food (compost and manure)

I have a confession to make:

I often catch myself admiring the beauty of a bowl of compost on its way out to the bin. In late March, I found myself with lots of fresh flowers heading out to compost, and I couldn't help but photograph them along the way. Forgive me.

Ecologically minded volunteers built this compost toilet in partnership with the indigenous people. Previously, the forest was their toilet

Very first sketch for our new blog, Compost Cowgirls!

Rat-proofing the compost, v2. It got in around the rat-proof metal mesh somehow, so we’ll see how these slabs do.

Deemed finished, these sunflowers were consigned to the compost heap ... still, they brightened it up a tad.

i'm going to take them home to compost!

Tour de Fat, San Francisco 2008

After a heavy snow, we were not able to get to our home-made compost box in the backyard for awhile. This is what we saw when we looked inside. We found it quite beautiful.

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This is the good stuff that the city landscape recycling center sells. I believe it is composted horse manure and wood shavings. Yum.

The low grade compost intended for brownfield reclamation projects is sieved to make it nicer.

Resolution proclaiming May 5, 2014 through May 11, 2014 as Compost Awareness Week in Santa Barbara County.

Install AirHead composting toilet on our yacht. Carver Santego

My compost pile in the backyar is the recipient of lots of good stuff. Today it got two orange halves after I squeezed out the juice for a raw beet salad. It got the ends of some broccoli rapini, a few garlic clove skins and the root tips of a very red beet.

A friend gave me his juicer a few weeks back and I have been making fresh juice everyday. I throw the pulp in the compost and since I have started this the compost pile seems to have taken on a life of it's own. The soil is dark brown and smells earthy and healthy. I don't know if it makes sense to say it smells healthy, but I don't know of any other way to describe it.

If you got any vegetable stuff you can throw it out back.

Note how it's gotten a bit more compacted since the fall, with minimal effort. Just good ol' Nature.

We spread about a dozen wheel-barrowfuls of compost to enrich the soil.

kitchen waste being reycled into compost

Sunday. Experiments with compost. Patting it into my knee appears to make my dungarees mucky.

blogged here

Garden fork, not pitchfork.

SUMMER OF COMPOST - 2010

Day 2.

Edible Office has Summer of Compost.

Google has Summer of Code.

During the Summer of Compost, I am turning compost daily.

I made this piece for the wlyb (e)motive exhibition 2010. It is made from piles of identical recycled postcards that I put in the compost bin for 6 months.