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I put all the recyclable kitchen food items in this and it gets dumped into our large compost pile in the backyard by the Hoop House.

I find compost very pretty: the colours, the stratification, the juxtaposition of food stuffs. It's like a dietary diary (except the grass, that's from the rabbits).

composting!!

The fine brown groundings are Ruibosch tea. The teabags were emptied so that Maya could make her own hand-sewn teabags with mint from the garden. I wanted to show how well an eggbox makes a bottom liner.

May

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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Screened a windrow and put the compost in the shed. Should help to keep it a lot drier than just sitting out on the mud.

Glorious earthworms! There were literally hundreds of these wriggly dudes in the compost bin. Great for the soil. :)

Yard compost angles around the shed. There are three sections and each year each section gets rotated to a new section or used in the garden.

two simple compost piles on the side of the house, made with two by fours and chicken wire.

So this is our third set of boards and we aren't even half way through them yet! As previously mentioned we headed to Somerset to paint as many boards as we could handle in a weekend for the nice folks at Pootopia. They have hundreds of compostable toilets and are beautifying them with some artwork on boards which fit into the toilet doors. Which is where we came in. We set ourselves a somewhat ambitious target of completing 40 boards over the weekend. Despite working just about as hard as we could we only managed a final tally of 32 completed boards (with 7 left just as backgrounds and one MIA). Not too shabby if i say so myself. The hard part was trying to make it so they didn’t all look too similar.

Just look at this little terror. Youl couldn't leave him alone for a minute before he'd be smashing your most precious things...

Cheers

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Compost

Compost binscapes. Springtails and mites

Descolou esta manhã da Base Aérea N.º 6, no Montijo, uma aeronave C-130H com um

conjunto de militares da Força Aérea e do Exército, rumo ao Mali.

Os familiares e amigos puderam despedir-se dos militares que partiram e que vão passar

o Natal fora de Portugal e longe dos seus. A cerimónia de despedida foi presidida pelo

Chefe do Estado-Maior do Comando Conjunto para as Operações Militares do EstadoMaior-General

das Forças Armadas (EMGFA), Vice-Almirante Fernando Pires da

Cunha, e contou também com a presença do Comandante Aéreo, Tenente-General

Joaquim Borrego, bem como de outras altas entidades militares.

O contingente que partiu hoje constitui o grosso das tropas que vão cumprir a missão

MINUSMA (www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minusma/) naquele país

africano, sob a égide da Organização das Nações Unidas.

Nos últimos dias já tinham descolado outros dois grupos de militares, que constituíram o

grupo avançado. No voo de hoje seguiu ainda uma equipa médica da Força Aérea, que

voltará ainda este domingo e que é responsável por acompanhar e fazer regressar um

militar português que adoeceu no terreno.

A missão prolongar-se-á por seis meses, sendo composta por cerca de 60 militares (que

serão sucessivamente rendidos) e uma aeronave C-130H, da Esquadra 501 – “Bisontes”.

O destacamento fica enquadrado no contexto de Força Nacional Destacada na

dependência do EMGFA.

Worm composting in Reno, Nevada.

From the actual compost heap. Amazing!

An old deep tiller I use after the bags have been emptied on the field. Chisel spikes worked the best.

What nature drops into the environment composts and regenerates into new growth.

The same cannot be said for mankind's deposits.

#14 Stacy Brewer

Large, aviary style coop w/ a green roof. Seattle Tilth 3-bin composter to compost the chicken manure & bedding.

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Seattle Tilth's Chicken Coop & Urban Farm Tour

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Bac à compost communautaire et bac à compost normal.

compost corner

December

Now a book. Tho this one wasn't selected.

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very colourful compost

Found in the middle of the compost heap.

yard waste being composted in windrows

The compost crew.

Our first bag of compost from our "Enviro-Cycle" composter.

Composting in action! Right now the soil is sitting about 8' deep spread out over a 30' X 24' space.

Compost bin scenes. A springtail along with a whole lot of springtail skins (the white things). Focus stacked using zerene

I made compost

BREAKING NEWS My 400th picture to be viewed over 1,000 times (July 2015). First uploaded March 2014.

I got me a 7 Cu-Ft (52 gal.) composter for the backyard - recycle more of my trash into something useful.

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Day 189/365.

First part of our compost heap begins.

Composting is environmental stewardship.

biodynamic compost heaps, Sloterland

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.

Two year old compost, screened to 5/8ths of an inch.

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

Compact composting - worms in a box eating all your left over greens and leaves.