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These plastic composters, sometimes called 'Darth Vaders' due to their resemblance to helmet of the infamous 'Star Wars' character, are a low cost way to compost garden and kitchen waste. Their dark color helps to heat the compost. The covered lid keeps the compost from getting rain-soaked. However, some compost aficionados don't care for these bins, claiming that they don't allow for adequate intake of oxygen.
2 years later, we have fresh compost/soil for the garden.
The in-coming baby makes an attempt to bust out of the shirt...
The barrel is from a local hospital (don't worry - no biohazard materials) and the frame is the roll bar from a Jeep CJ7. The steel bar going through the center is from our closets. When we moved in the previous owners had used steel pipe for the hang bars in all the closets. We saved them all when we updated the closets... 9 years later we pulled one out for a compost bin. Who would have thought?!
The pee toilet goes into a container and poop only in the pit. A man designed this toilet. A two story toilet does not seem to appeal to women. And there is not seated pee toilet.
Aeration tubes in a compost bin that uses the Johnson-Su method. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh, farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
In our West Coast environment, composting needs plenty of air circulation so that the kitchen scraps and garden waste actually compost - an aerobic process that produces little odour. The widely used black plastic bins are not so great - poor air circulation, very hard to turn or empty, and SMELLY! Our solution is this two-lidded box made of Western Red Cedar and wire mesh (sometimes we even have wire mesh panels on the sides, too). The front boards are removable, right down to the ground, so turning and emptying are easy.
Here's the patch of dirt where I'm going to build the compost heap. The bricks are the ones I got from a dumpster down the street from a building renovation, and used for edging along the little yard by the patio. The yard itself used to be patio. 4 years ago I had some guys dig up the cement and haul it off, then I hauled in 3 truckloads of dirt in my pickup truck and spread it out on the yard-to-be. My neighbor Sha over the years did a lot of work to water and seed the area with grass and clover. The clover has done very well. The dirt itself was very poor quality and we didn't consciously try to rehab it. The grass mostly dies off in summer. Needs too much water. So, in this corner I moved the bricks out from the edging. I'll build a smallish frame with stakes and wood slats. There are cedar trees above it, so the soil that's there starts out quite acidic.
After I turned my compost pile today, lots of red worms were exposed on the surface. This bird sat for about 20 minutes doing a risk/benefit analysis: the danger of me and my camera vs. a mouthful of worms.
the -in mexico organic- solidarity coffee café caracol from chiapas, mexico going back into the ground.
Back in 2005, I used three plastic trash cans as compost bins. I now use two Smith & Hawkins BioStack Compost Bins, but still use these to handle the overflow and to store finished compost that is ready to use.
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