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The compost heap and surrounding level was tidied up. The ground was raked clear and the non woody compost we had been collecting was added to the heap. A couple of pieces of the better quality salvaged wood were used to mark out the heap. The compost barrels were in good condition, so we moved them to this area.
A volunteer explains worm composting to a fair goer at the Tompkins County Compost Fair held at the Cooperative Extension Education Center.
May 1, 2010.
Mark King says a good quality compost has a pleasant, mild, earthy odor, with indistinguishable feedstocks.
Bed of dynamic accumulator (DA)plants downhill of a compost pile. It's a slight slope here, but I want to retain nutrients that leach out of the compost pile. (Most of these experiments are partly stuff I read and partly stuff I make up. Ongoing study and experience should correct any current errors. ) The DA beds will also provide nutritious mulch in the future. I plan to devote a lot of space of them. Ideally the garden will become independent of outside inputs, like straw mulch and fertilizer. Comfrey and nettles are good DAs. Russian Comfrey doesn't spread by seed, so it won't become a weed elsewhere.
A compost toilet was installed near the rain water harvesting system to reduce contamination in the water supply. This toilet also reduces flies and provides fertilizer.
A huge peice of Juniper (I think it's a Juniper or something related) was growing through a section of our fence. My Brother cut it down so he can fix the fence.
Afterwards, my Mom, my other Brother and I, started to cut it down to tiny pieces for the compost bin.
We collected a total of three five-gallon buckets full of the leaves.
Volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters collecting an award from celebrity gardener Alys Fowler in recognition of their efforts to promote home composting
Composting is great for a lot of reasons. My favorite being one's garbage is way less icky. Want to take a trip to our compost bin with me?
Made by sewing muslin bags filled with compost onto a white dress. the dress was watered and the seeds already present in the compost grew... flowering on the day of teh opening of the Summer Exhibition at Ashford School of Art and Design, June 2009
lee decides to hide in the compost thing....and jumps out when pedro tries to wee up it!...he shit his pants! ha!...ok ok this is what we do in our spare time, sad i know!
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
"Using a compostable coffee cup at Walton's!"
-Katie R. (Austin Office)
For Earth Month 2012, Green Mountain Energy employees are sharing photos of how they live green each and every day. Both at work and at home, we all try to reduce our daily environmental impact in various ways. Here's a glimpse into how our employees are living green - and tips on what you can do to reduce your impact, too!
I put it into flowerpot and noted my observations.
Here is a translation from polish to english:
24TH OF FEBRUARY 2012
In my flat I have no flovers, so I put the page into a flowerpot with cactus on the staircase... but I did it 2 days..no,no what am I writing?!?! 2 weeks ago(!) and stlii nothing! Nothing is happening with it. Those flovers haven't been transplanted for centuries, so claim that their soil is fertile is a strong euphemism. In addition noone waters these plants, so my page is just lying in dry sand in the color of soil . I hope that something will finall come out of it
26TH OF MARCH 2012
I took a look there recently because a dead cactus caught my attention. I hope It's not because of my page! ...rather not... It's just because nobody waters it. If cactus is dying it means that it's really bad.
I pulled my page out of the ground for a while and It's now in several pieces. My page is composting very very slowly...probably it's because of the lack of moisture.
Photo By Rachel Larue
Michael Bryan-Brown, president and chief engineer of Green Mountain Technologies speaks about the new composting system (seen in the background) on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall during the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment Program Review, Aug. 28.
5-24 Compost : setting up the compost area to accomodate garden trimmings, a worm bin and kitchen compost.
This bin has a door at the bottom, which is nice. You can see the good dirt at the way bottom, but the inner core is good, too. When I dig this in, the outside layer will go back in the top to "cook" for a while longer.
Eggshells are good for the compost, but take more than a year to fully decompose. I'm planning to build a screen to filter out all the not-rotted-enough stuff this year, instead of picking it out by hand. It's not icky doing that, since it's essentially dirt by then, but it's time consuming for the eggshells.
Had Andrew deliver 28 bags of compost. I need to try to do better with making it in the bin. But I don't make nearly enough for what I need so I always have to supplement. Here some is going in the 2nd big bed to get ready for planting.
Daniel stands in front of a compost pile. He's about 6 feet tall, so you can see how high these piles are. The pic is terrible becuase it's so dusty in the compost building. Oh, and stinky too.