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April 2023: a month in 30 pictures. 18/30

Today's harvest of green peppers from a plant growing in our compost bin.

Made today out of old pallets.

 

Now that we have the bin in place, we can start clearing the overgrown grasses and in 6-12 months have fresh compost for the beds.

Credit: InOldNews | Shuchita Jha

 

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

 

Date: May 30, 2025

 

Description: To prevent wet waste like kitchen waste and leftover food from being dumped into landfills where it releases harmful greenhouse gases, the Indian government in 2016 mandated segregation of waste. Under the Solid Waste Management Rules the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change also stressed the importance of composting of wet waste by residential colonies and businesses.

 

Many residential colonies in cities of India have since then started colony-wide composting of wet waste, creating compost for their gardens. This move not only prevents wet waste from entering landfills but also leads to creation of compost — full of healthy nutrients for plants.

 

In the video, a member of SWaCH — a cooperative of self-employed waste collectors in Pune can be seen mixing wet waste of an RWA with soil to create compost in the composting unit within the residential colony.

 

triangles and angles

“Compost for Sustainable Agriculture – facts, myths, potentials and business opportunities” workshop was organized by the Fertile Grounds Initiative (FGI), in collaboration with Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and CIAT. It is part of a series of workshops on conditions for improved nutrient recycling in East-Africa. The workshop was held at ICIPE Duduville Campus, Nairobi, Kenya. September 12-13, 2016.

 

For more information visit: knowledge4food.net/workshop-report-compost/

 

Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith

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For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org

My two trusty compost bins. A potato has self seeded in the left one.

Read more about my garden on my blog www.greenfoot.com.au/

Credit: InOldNews | Shuchita Jha

 

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

 

Date: May 30, 2025

 

Description: To prevent wet waste like kitchen waste and leftover food from being dumped into landfills where it releases harmful greenhouse gases, the Indian government in 2016 mandated segregation of waste. Under the Solid Waste Management Rules the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change also stressed the importance of composting of wet waste by residential colonies and businesses.

 

Many residential colonies in cities of India have since then started colony-wide composting of wet waste, creating compost for their gardens. This move not only prevents wet waste from entering landfills but also leads to creation of compost — full of healthy nutrients for plants.

 

In the video, a member of SWaCH — a cooperative of self-employed waste collectors in Pune can be seen mixing wet waste of an RWA with soil to create compost in the composting unit within the residential colony.

 

so sunday afternoon was nice and warm. we decided to rake some leaves and winterize the compost pile with the leaves. i grabbed the camera and took this photo because it was so cool to see all those kitchen scraps/stuff i put in there turned into soil!

 

i had the camera around my neck but it got in the way as i gathered leaves to put on top of the pile. so i took it off and put it on the roof of the storage building, making a mental note to not leave it there. we covered the compost pile and got it winterized and i remembered i wanted to build a little shelter for the outdoor/feral kitty, amelia. we finished the shelter just in time for nightfall.

 

monday comes and it is the grayest, darkest, rainy day of the year. the wind and rain are miserable. both are non-stop all day. the rain was that really fine rain, too, that soaks everything in seconds. miserable!! tuesday's only improvement is that it didn't rain. it was still frigid out.

 

tuesday night we get in bed at 11:30 and talk about something or other and it dawns on me that i *think* i MAY have left the camera on the roof of the storage building. brian grabs a flashlight and lo and behold: i DID.

 

oh noes.

 

brian took the batteries out and put it on one of the heating vents so the heat/airflow could dry it out. all i saw when i looked at it when he brought it in was fog in the viewfinder and the lens. not good. i assumed the worst and sadly looked online for new cameras.

 

last night (wednesday) when he got home brian put the batteries in and shock of shocks! IT WORKED! after two freaking days of sitting out in the rain and freezing cold, it works PERFECTLY.

 

it may not be the fanciest, most expensive or best camera out there but god damn: what a camera.

i was about to take this one out when megadear asked if i was going to photograph it.

Compost donated by Sonoma Compost, at the Food Forest project at Hall Middle School, Larkspur CA

That's not snow - it is the recycled paper shreddings I bring home from work, after they have done their duty as chicken bedding.

Aaron levels the ground for the compost bin.. this is outside our back fence..

Experts will pass on composting secrets at Enderby

 

News item on Enderby EYE posted on April 26, 2011 by staff

Green fingered experts will pass on their composting secrets at a series of roadshows to be held around the county.

 

Full news item at:

www.enderbyeye.co.uk/experts-will-pass-on-composting-secr...

Food waste not harvested from the garden will be composted in our recently donated tumbler.

compostables are nestled between two layers of netting. items break down over time and feed plants at base. I'm guessing that I could eventually put plants into the fence!

I've no idea what the collective might be for a group of composter bins. I thought perhaps a coagulation sounded good, except that that's the opposite (meaning liquid solidifying, rather than solids liquifying!). Any winning suggestions might see this one re-named.

 

It's the little satisfactions that matter in life, don't you think?

 

13th in my A little patch of English land project. Read about it here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/terry-and-nikon/sets/72157629066791...

 

We toss our vegetable scraps into a couple of compost bins. Almost every year the various seeds sprout and something tries to grow, but then dies down.

 

This year is different. This plant has grown through at least one aeration hole. It now sports white flowers and this green pepper!

 

This shot also serves as the foundation for my 5 October 2016 quickie.

Credit: InOldNews | Shuchita Jha

 

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

 

Date: May 30, 2025

 

Description: To prevent wet waste like kitchen waste and leftover food from being dumped into landfills where it releases harmful greenhouse gases, the Indian government in 2016 mandated segregation of waste. Under the Solid Waste Management Rules the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change also stressed the importance of composting of wet waste by residential colonies and businesses.

 

Many residential colonies in cities of India have since then started colony-wide composting of wet waste, creating compost for their gardens. This move not only prevents wet waste from entering landfills but also leads to creation of compost — full of healthy nutrients for plants.

 

In the video, a member of SWaCH — a cooperative of self-employed waste collectors in Pune can be seen mixing wet waste of an RWA with soil to create compost in the composting unit within the residential colony.

 

DON'T ADD THESE TO YOUR COMPOST PILE

Cedar, like the fence behind it. Wider, taller, straighter. Lid and front both come off in two sections. Black plastic bin disassembled, cleaned and put away til leaf season.

You'll find compost man wherever compost is in trouble.

something round

Jamie flips compost while everybody else plays games.

Taken by Maia Surdam June 18th, 2021

Joe is a master composter out of San Bernardino, with more worms than you can imagine. Here he observes the compost that I've been managing at my parents place.

after cooking tomatoes and straining them I tipped them into the ocmpost bin, loved the colour and patterns with the dahlia!

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