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A drawing I've made for May issue of the poster zine Composter. I'm playing with lots of naturalistic themes lately and this also serves as a preview of things to come.
a charming little wood mouse stocking up on seeds from our compost heap - note I'm using the 100mm macro lens - I was about 2-3 feet away, and it wasn't concerned at all. More to follow ;D
Our garden, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, UK
From weeds and leaves to next year's dirt. I recently moved this in order for it to catch more sun, it's working quite a bit better.
Terra Nova Rural Nature Park,
Thompson, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
Terra Nova means 'New Land' in Latin. The land was first used as a grounds for hunting, fishing, and housing by the Musqueam First Nations people. This area was later claimed by European migrants as the area of Richmond was among the earlier Crown Grant subdivisions. Both groups of people contribute to this rural landscape's agricultural and fishing history.
Some old apples on a compost pile.
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On a rainy Saturday road-trip to Sonoma County, a visit to the Green String Farm was the highlight. It is a natural and sustainable farm in a beautiful setting with dynamite produce!
From their website:
"Sustainability in the farming context is defined as healthy, local, socially responsible, simple living and control. We make every effort to reduce soil erosion, pesticide dependency, loss of biodiversity, resistance to natural predators, and other harmful ecological impact. We create a self-nourishing system where less human intervention yields better quality crops."
A photo of our home composting bin. I built this last fall out of mostly scrap materials we had in our garage. The side panels are roughly 36" X 36". California composting can be difficult because it is so dry here...but the rains of late have been helpful in getting this compost to "kick" and it is finally getting hot.
The cold compost method will produce compost in one to two years. Hot composting takes only three to six months. Photo by Tiffany Woods.
Home made compost tumbler.
I made it from things I had at home. The barrel was free from a dairy and I had the hardware for about 20 years. I save everything thats of value, and my value system is probably different than most.
So my wife say's
So what do we do with the green-waste we’ve just shredded and screened? Pile it up nice and high!!! I took this picture a while back of the massive compost mountain which I used to see on each visit to Kimbriki tip. I don’t know if this is the local northern beaches stockpile awaiting use or if this is the storage solution until they get into processing the material. Maybe this is their idea of windrow composting? Just one massive pile containing a few hundred tonnes of green-waste haha I imagine they’d achieve this mountain as a result of the processing equipment ejecting and shooting the material up to the top, just like a mulcher does, but with more force in this case. With the steep angle, it looks like an excavator or loader would’ve flipped and rolled back onto itself until it hit the bottom. Haven’t been to Kimbriki in a while, but I’m sure this is still an icon for the green-waste drop-off area.
la ricetta è quella del salame di cioccolato (avete presente?), più o meno.
io metto 150 grammi di burro e 100 grammi di zucchero a velo in una terrina e poi con una forchetta lavoro il tutto fino ad ottenere un composto cremoso. poi aggiungo 70 grammi di cacao amaro, 300 grammi di biscotti secchi sbriciolati, un bicchierino di rum, qualche mandorla tritata (ma anche nocciole o arachidi o noci o quello che volete, insomma) e un po' di latte.
poi faccio le palline, le ricopro di farina di cocco o di granella di nocciole o di arachidi tritate e metto in frigo per qualche ora.
A Base Aérea N.º 11 - BA11 situa-se nas proximidades da cidade de Beja, tendo sido criada em 1964 pela Portaria n.º 20856 de 21 de outubro, data que passou a ser considerada como o "Dia da Unidade". A Base ocupa uma área de cerca de 800 hectares e foi construÃda com a finalidade de corresponder aos acordos bilaterais entre Portugal e a República Federal da Alemanha, no sentido de proporcionar facilidades de treino operacional à Força Aérea Alemã.
Igualmente pertencente à Base e sob administração direta do Comando, mas integrada na urbanização da parte Sudoeste da Cidade de Beja, está implantada uma zona residencial composta de arruamentos, parques, zonas verdes e 330 habitações, complementadas por outras instalações de apoio social.
A constituição do Comando da Unidade e respetivos serviços teve lugar em 1967, mantendo-se no entanto a construção das infraestruturas que vieram a terminar em 1968. A Unidade começou a ser utilizada pela Força Aérea Alemã a partir de 1970, ano em que os aviões F-104 iniciaram a atividade operacional na Base, constituindo um Grupo de duas esquadras, que acabaram por ser retiradas para a Alemanha em 1973, devido a alterações no seu dispositivo militar. A partir daÃ, a BA11 funcionou como aeródromo de apoio a aviões militares quer da Força Aérea Portuguesa quer da Força Aérea Alemã e, ainda, a aviões comerciais da Lufthansa e TAP, para voos de treino. A assinatura do Acordo Luso-Alemão sobre a utilização da Base, em 16 de agosto de 1979, deu origem a um desenvolvimento significativo da atividade aérea, com a instalação de uma Esquadra de aviões Alpha-Jet, da Força Aérea Alemã, para cumprimento de missões de treino operacional, incluindo tiro no Campo de Tiro em Alcochete.
Em 1987 a Esquadra 103, da BA5 (Monte Real), foi transferida para a BA11 dando inÃcio a uma nova fase da vida desta Unidade, com aeronaves nacionais estacionadas em permanência, e que seria enriquecida em 1993 com a atribuição de mais três unidades aéreas, nomeadamente, a Esquadra 101, equipada com aeronaves EPSILON, a Esquadra 301, que operava os ALPHA-JET e a Esquadra 552, que opera os helicópteros ALOUETTE III.
Em 1993, a não renovação do Acordo Luso-Alemão sobre a utilização da Base, determinou o fim da atividade da Força Aérea Alemã.
Em 2005, a Esquadra 301 foi transferida para a BA5, passando a operar a aeronave F16.
Em 2008, a Esquadra 601 foi transferida da BA6 (Montijo) para a BA11. Esta Esquadra encontra-se equipada com aviões Lockheed P-3C CUP+ e tem como missão executar operações em ambiente marÃtimo.
Em 2009, a Esquadra 101 foi transferida para a BA1, em Sintra. Além das Unidades Aéreas sediadas em permanência e já referidas, a Base é utilizada por diversos tipos de meios aéreos, quer da FAP, quer de outras Forças Aéreas estrangeiras para fins de treino e exercÃcios, beneficiando das excelentes caracterÃsticas das infraestruturas aeronáuticas existentes.
Em maio de 2007, a BA11 foi agraciada com a Medalha de Honra do MunicÃpio, atribuÃda pela Câmara Municipal de Beja, por se ter destacado por serviços distintos e altamente meritórios prestados ao MunicÃpio e cujo nome está intrinsecamente ligado a Beja.
Great Dixters compost heap is the biggest I've seen, although I believe Kew Gardens claim to have the biggest! This one however was complete with growing marrows. I would love to size the size of the marrows when they are ready!
From the compost bin with large earthworms, pulled out some of the non-native 'assistants' to the worms. The snails eat a lot and help keep the balance for the worms. All local material the awl snail has made a home.
I built this compost bin with some special brackets I bought from Lee Valley, and some cedar fence boards I bought from a lumber yard.
20191011_1377_7D2-50 Compost Bins
At the start of this day the bin on the right did not exist. The bin on the left was my old bin #3, built about six months ago (in autumn/fall) and was full to 1m high.
We have decided to put a 3m x 3m garden shed behind the garage (to store some of my son's stuff) and therefore the old compost bins 1 and 2 (built about a year ago) have to be moved, as well as the 1,000 litre water tank that collects rainwater from the garage roof. It will go in part of the space vacated by old bin #2.
Therefore old bin #3 (on the left) is now new bin #1, there is a new bin #2 (now with the contents of old #3/new #1) and the third bin is yet to be built.
Each bin is approximately 1.2m wide x 1m deep and up to 1m high, so today I built bin #2 and shifted 1.2 cubic metres of compost, as well as looking after the two grand kids for the last day of the school holidays. Term 4 starts on Monday!
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We have been successfully composting kitchen wastes for two years now and are very happy that we don't have a lot of garbage to throw out to the daily waste collector!
The pots are from Daily Dump, Bangalore. If you do have a bit of yard space, do consider trying this. It really is not difficult or time consuming at all.
We segregate 'Dry Waste' (plastics, paper, glass etc for recycling) and 'Wet Waste' (Vegetable peels, food, waste from cleaning the floors etc). The Dry waste needs to be given only once a week. and the wet waste comes to hardly a mug full, that I really don't need a plastic cover to dump that. I just line my waste bin with a newspaper, just so that it doesn't get messy.
Update December 2010:
Still composting at home and now cannot think of any other way! :)