smells niiiiice...

All the stems, skins and leftovers go into the compost pile. It's cooking along nicely. Don't tell Mary I borrowed her thermometer. ;-)

Jean Marie smiling at a cabbage grown with SOIL compost. What a difference!

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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

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Clivus Multrum is provided composting toilet solutions for private homes, public facilities, offices, and the outdoors.

green garlic has inner skins like petals

Ducky and Andrew hanging out with the compost

This compost still has bad stuff in it. Before making it available for sale it undergoes a blow/vacuuming procedure to suck out all the plastic.

After deadheading peonies, I decided to have a little fun.

Huron Pines AmeriCorps member Justin Selden (right) who is serving as the Outreach Coordinator at Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy and a Gaylord volunteer help build a demonstration composting site at the Otsego Conservation District. Be sure to stop by the district to see the site as well as their greenhouse and beautiful demonstration garden.

Left- no Cascase Compost; Right - with Cascade (lab tested) compost

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

Here is the story behind this compost sifter that I built a few weeks ago.

These are the design sketches.

Composting Toilets - Small children should be accompanied by an adult | Banhiero de compostagem - Crianca pequena deve estar acompanhada de um adulto - Vancouver (Feb-2012)

Doing well, a little soggy, but I mixed in a bunch of dried camellia leaves and flowers which should help.

Old pallets were used to create about 8 compost bins which were soon filled with weeds from the plots.

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outside with leaves and dirt added.

biodynamic composting process

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

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.

Pre-consumer waste from the DH ends up here. The compost is then used on the Farm to nurture our plants!

The lovely, if slightly un-private, compost loos at Fire In The Mountain III

A three meter square compost holder created with old scaffold boards.

It's got a mind of it's own!

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Thea, Alan and Mike pose next to our newly built compost bins, made from recycled pallets. Greyfriars Kirkyard, February 2009.

The giant sticks that would take forever to decompose