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I have been composting all food scraps throughout the winter, no meat or bones. I even have a generous group of friends who drop off their kitchen compost for me throughout the year. I share what vegetables I get with them during the season. It's a win, win! I have resolved this year that nothing leaves the garden space. Everything goes in the bin. If there are invasive weeds they get sun dried before being put in the bin.
By "the City" I mean Albany, NY, but still, I am in a city and composting.
The pile in the wheel barrow is sifted compost and the pile on the tarp is what was sifted. The sifted, made up of material that hasn't broken down and some sticks, will go back into the composter which is the big green barrel in the background. I added in some newer compost and leaves from the back garden where I had been piling compostables during the winter. The wheel barrow was mixed in with dirt and some left over leaves in the back garden. I will mix in some peat moss and continue to work the soil until I cover it with week blocker fabric and we start planting seeds.
Peas and green beans can go in as soon as the soil is ready.
Landscaping has begun between the north and southbound red IRT lanes along the stretch between Sunset Beach and Dolphin Beach. Workers are distributing compost to improve the soil ahead of planting.
October
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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Joel was incredibly proud of how well the compost pile turned out. The only thing that wasn't plain old dirt were the grass clippings from the day before.
This is what I like to call "finished" compost. It has achieved a high (130-160) temperature during composting then cured for a long time.
SimpleHuman bag waiting for the pack. I grabed this out of a can on the curb the day before. The woman who produced it claimed to recycle and compost everything. Overall she did pretty good, bit I think there was still some good stuff in there when I opened it up.
Producers make their own compost with a combination of Guano de Isla (highly nutrient-rich bat poop, essentially, found in caves on Islands near Peru), guinea pig scat, and coffee cherry skins.
Check out the steam! The compost pile had gotten so warm that it steamed for at least 20 minutes when Joel started turning it into the garden. (Oh, and it smelled like a horse farm.)
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.
We invested in a new compost bin. This looked really fairly easy to use on the Internet, but you really need to have muscle to move the handle. It's supposed to be turned daily. Where is Alex when you need him????
Ran out of the stockpiled compost, so hubby went for another load today for me to finish the new "shade" garden! It used to be free from our town, now they charge $18 for this amount. Still a bargain!
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch today announce the launch of the nation’s largest curbside composting program starting this fall, at the The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, on Monday, August 8, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
A defiant orange slice in the compost bin. Dare to resist, fruit, your degradable days are coming.
(I mostly liked the bright spot of color among the grey, done w/o any PhotoShoppish tricks)
Composting worms at work making rich fertilizer from newspapers and junk mail - right by the Adult Reference Desk.
April
There is now a book! stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
But this photo above ain't in it - in spite of being in my 100 most pop album.
A 30 gallon container of mature compost from 2005. I get about three of these things out of one load from the small steel tumbler you can see up on the right. This has not been sifted. If left long enough, it seems it breaks down this fine.
Landscaping has begun between the north and southbound red IRT lanes along the stretch between Sunset Beach and Dolphin Beach. Workers are distributing compost to improve the soil ahead of planting.
It's not essential that your brand of compost be the same as your brand of potatoes, but it does help!
We have a big compost box. And to sift it we only had a wee little sieve. Obviously, something had to be done about that.
So I built that massive shooka-shooka box.
Krissi Fiebig, Compost Site Intern with WRRAP. Krissi is collecting food scraps and other organics each week from departmental break rooms and buildings around campus. This material goes into the Earth Tub, where it gets mixed and processed into a rich compost. WRRAP provides the compost at no cost to students (self-serve compost pick-up is located outside the entrance to R.O.S.E) and to programs like CCAT and Oh SNAP! Work on campus but don't have a compost bucket in your break room? Contact WRRAP today for this free service, wrrap@humboldt.edu.
Annually, HSU collects approximately 100 tons of food waste. While some of this remains on campus to be composted in the Earth Tub, most of HSU's food waste is transported to an off-campus worm farm.