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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.
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.
We collect vegetable scraps and coffee grounds each week and then throw them in a compost bin in the back yard.
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.
November
Now published with 16 other photographs from this group:
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.
See previews here:
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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.
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.
See previews here:
stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
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!
This tomato volunteered from seed from tomatoes we tossed in the compost pile last year. It's finally putting on some fruit.
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.
Composting is the recommend method for disposing of animal mortality. This facility is at Garrett College in McHenry, MD.
The soldier fly larvae in the compost bin in an all out orgiastic feast. The worms don't seem to mind competing with the larvae. Infact, I think the larvae break the food down quickly into something more manageable for the earth worms.
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Asa Norte é um bairro nobre de BrasÃlia, no Distrito Federal, sendo uma área tombada pela UNESCO. Considerada região nobre, a Asa Norte é composta por moradores com elevado poder aquisitivo.Segundo pesquisa da Revista Época é o oitavo bairro mais cobiçado do Brasil.
Ela é um dos dois bairros (junto com a Asa Sul) que compõem o Plano Piloto de BrasÃlia. Assim como a própria Asa Sul, é cortada pelo Eixão (Eixo Rodoviario), uma via expressa de seis faixas e pelos eixinhos W (oeste) e L (leste). Ambas são formadas por Quadras, Superquadras e Entrequadras, numeradas de 202 a 216, 402 a 416, 602 a 611 e na parte leste do eixão e 102 a 116, 302 a 316, 502 a 516, 702 a 716 e 901 a 916 na parte oeste do Eixo Central.
Cada Superquadra (SQN) tem prédios, chamados de blocos. As SQN 100, 200 e 300, são constituÃdas de até 14 prédios residenciais de 6 andares, idealizados por Lúcio Costa à imagem e concepção dos prédios haussmannianos com seis andares de Paris; nas SQN 400 (desde a SQN 402 até a SQN 416) os blocos tem 3 andares e podendo existir até 20 em cada quadra; já nas Quadras 700 existem casas e prédios. Entre as Superquadras residenciais, há as Quadras Comerciais, com comércio diverso
O bairro conta com uma infraestrutura de lazer, moradia, transporte, educação. Existem shoppings de grande porte (Conjunto Nacional e BrasÃlia Shopping), médio porte Boulevard Shopping e pequeno porte Liberty Mall. No bairro também se localizam unidades de supermercados de grandes redes (Carrefour, Grupo Pão de Açucar e Walmart ), farmácia, restaurantes, pizzarias, redes de fast-food, hospitais públicos e particulares, escolas, parques, hotéis de luxo, postos de combustÃveis, limpeza automotiva, bares, igrejas.
A Asa Norte é mais nova e por isso menos arborizada e populosa que a Asa Sul. Foi tombada pelo UNESCO como Patrimônio Histórico da Humanidade, no dia 7 de dezembro de 1987.
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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)
Thanks to all who joined our Compost Facility tour yesterday! We got a great behind-the-scenes look at how leaves and grass from our curbside recycling program, and leaves from the leaf vacuuming program are processed. What's happening here?! As the huge piles of material are turned, steam is released. The steam is a sign that bacteria in the pile are hard at work, composting the leaves and grass into that magical "black gold", marketed as LeafGro.
When I was looking at the thumbnails of pictures I had just dumped from camera to computer, I was wondering which dish this was a picture of. It was not until I looked at a larger version that I remembered having taken a picture of the church compost pile today. Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson (Mississippi).