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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
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.
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 composting toilet is a dry toilet that uses a predominantly aerobic processing system that treats excreta, typically with no water or small volumes of flush water, via composting or managed aerobic decomposition.
Composting toilets may be used as an alternative to flush toilets in situations where there is no suitable water supply or waste treatment facility available or to capture nutrients in human excreta as humanure. They are in use in many of the roadside facilities in Sweden and in national parks in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
The human excrement is normally mixed with sawdust, coconut coir, peat moss to support aerobic processing, absorb liquids, and to reduce the odor. The decomposition process is generally faster than the anaerobic decomposition used in wet sewage treatment systems such as septic tanks.
The Excel is the best-selling unit in North America. It is a high capacity Bio-drum toilet that is very simple to operate, features well proven technology and is extremely reliable. The Excel was the first ever self-contained composting toilet to be certified by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF).
To simulate residential use the Excel was tested by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) at maximum capacity for 6 continuous months, during which the Excel produced no odour and produced a clean, safe compost.
The 2" vent is attached at the top back of the Excel and can be installed invisibly by running it through the wall and up the outside wall. For comfort the Excel has a sturdy detachable footrest which can be removed to pull out the finishing drawer.
Composting worms at work making rich fertilizer from newspapers and junk mail - right by the Adult Reference Desk.
April
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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.
This huge pile of steaming compost gave me compost envy. I wish we had all of these horses pooping around my house.
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!
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
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch announce a roadmap to implement the nation's largest composting program at City Hall on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Here's how I went about harvesting worm castings for the first time. I scooped up what looked to be ripe soil in a "finished" corner of my worm box and put it in a bucket. I then dumped it out on a tarp to form a little mountain. I left it out in the sun for a half hour. The worms headed for the coolest region—straight down—and I scraped worm castings off of the top. By the time I had made it to the bottom—yes, I know, this is not exactly Everest, but I was working slowly and carefully on this first test run—a whole mass of worms was down there, so I collected them and put them back into the bin.
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
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