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The composting facility on the campus of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Looking northwest towards the houses on Monroe Street.
I mentioned to a fellow employee that used coffee make a good fertilizer, or compost ingredient. Then the following Monday my desk is covered with used coffee grains.
This bucket of soil started life as (non-meat) kitchen waste. After six months or so in a pile with occasional turnings of soil and shredded newspaper, it goes back to the garden. A satisfying domestic activity!
I haven't bought a bag of "topsoil" in years!
The leaves are new shoots of Four O'Clocks--Mirabilis Jalapa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabilis_jalapa
Using an old corn crib conveyor to build a compost windrow. Once the windrow is done we will use a manure spreader to blend all the materials and add water as necessary. As a note it takes about 24 hours for the material to heat up to about 155F
If you're willing to dull your lawn mower blade a little then don't be afraid to run over twigs. These make for great spacers in your compost pile which are crucial for it to be successful.
A high quality (PAS 100 certified) compost output produced by composting garden waste and food waste in a verticle in-vessel composting unit.
Allotment parsnips made into soup. f/10
December
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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Finger Lakes Food/Flower Gardens
We found a source of pallets for our compost, Stu got these for a super good price.
Finally got a chance to try out the 'new' screener. The compost is still frozen in the middle so it was difficult to get a full bucket of 'post. We had to adjust the offset weights to get the vibration but it works very well now. The motor runs at just a hair above idle, any faster and it smooths itself out. We had to put up some plywood due to wind.
I tossed out the old plastic compost bin I kept on my counter; it might have been attracting ants. Until I can get another container, I am using an old plastic drink pitcher that has a lid.
Just finished my triple-bin compost bins. Used cedar fence boards and 2x4s. The mesh lid (open-able) keeps the birds and squirrels out. The front panel is removable for digging.
Fallen leaves make for a wonderful addition to your compost pile as they contribute as a brown trimming or brush which will eventually be totally decomposed by microbes.
Inside the compost heap, we put mostly our kitchen and garden waste.
Here you can see fruit and vegetable peelings (carrot, onion, potato, orange), salamis, tea bags or leaves; basically everything that is organic. You can even put egg shells.
started with green kitchen scraps and dry grass. 4:1 brown/carbon:green/nitrogen. A few weeks of adding more kitchen scraps, turning, and dialing in the moisture level has produced very rich results. This is a 32 gallon bin and is about half full of compost so far. There are a lot of larger diameter sticks that are not breaking down, but i believe they enhance aeration. 10mm holes on the sides, top, and bottom about every 10cm.
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We are avid recyclers. Every non-meat food scrap ends up in this compost heap. It will be quite a pile come spring.
Our attempt at thermophilic compost. It's not staying very hot consistently, but it has jumped up to 118°F for a few days at a time.
UPDATE (May): once we started using sawdust instead of peat moss as the cover material, the temperature shot up. We consistently are at or above 130°F now!