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Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
My new compost bin from City Farmer. This is before I had finished setting it up. The worms are in the plastic top in the top right corner. The stuff inside the bin is the carbon-rich brown layer, made up of straw and shredded newspaper.
I have a mostly cold compost pile that I thought would do better being a bit caged. I built a sifter for the compost (which also helped me to prototype the bottom of the quail run), and was able to get several buckets full of compost. The compost has been added to the vegetable beds as well as to the violas and calla lilies in the front
The compost mixer is made out of recycled material and can be re-grinded and re-used in the manufacturing process of future products.
This compost bin came free with our house (and we think free from the county). It's just flexible plastic with fairly large round holes, and the previous owners put some chicken wire around, presumably to keep rats out. We dug down a few inches and put bricks around the perimeter to prevent tunneling. And it seems to work, though I don't see why rats won't just climb up the side and over. I'm sure birds and squirrels have easy access and will forage if we leave tempting scraps on the top. To the right (washed out) is our old pile. We reset the bin about once a year and spread the old pile out on gardens or around trees/bushes.
Ramatu Yakubu shovels homemade compost into a donkey cart with the help of her eldest daughter Safia, 18, while her youngest daughter sits patiently.
Ramatu says that since learning organic, conservation farming techniques at ZOVFA’s ‘Farmer Field School’, such as making natural compost and pesticides, her onion crop lasts for much longer, and her children no longer get constant stomach complaints. She receives a better price for her onions and maize because she can store them for longer, and for the last year had no need to send any of her five children to the health clinic once. ‘I think it’s because I’m not using [chemical] pesticides’ she says. Ramatu also received a donkey cart and other equipment to support her new farming practices. She regularly tunes in to radio shows such as those ZOVFA and the Northern Presby network are running through an awareness campaign on the dangerous implications of the misuse of agro-chemicals. ‘From the radio discussions, if you listen carefully, you learn a lot’, Ramatu says.
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It's getting increasingly harder for me to find things to photograph. Most of our stuff is packed away, and we'll be on our way to our new home in a month :) The compost tumbler will be gone soon too. Glad I got to photograph it one more time.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Two cattle feeder composters. I lift the feeder off the compost with a front end loader and then use the tractor to re-pile the material. Most difficult thing is to keep the material moist.
We have stopped using this system June 2011.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
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
I like it when I get a full bowl of compost filler from meal preparations - I know it's going to be good food if it takes that many fresh ingredients. :)
Probably one of the best designed compost bin out in the market. Compost bins are generally not known for creativity in styles.
We put all of our food scraps into our compost bucket and then when it's full take it to our local "sanitary district" where they compost the whole shebang w/yard waste, etc. We're on the waiting list for an "Earth Machine" so we can do it all at home, and have the lovely compost for our garden too.
Compost making exercise
Permaculture Design Certificate
With Nick Ritar + special guests
Alexandria, Sydney Australia
May-August 2010
Made with 3 entire pallets taken from work and pallet boards from an hvac delivery last summer.
The back pallet was tied with rope to the left and the right and I made a gate for the front. The front gate's held on by simple latches since I won't be swinging open daily. The right side is covered with chicken wire since I didn't have enough boards to cover the areas that an opossum could get through.
I made the gate at different heights just to be creative I guess. My cousin has my chop saw and the humidity has lead me to believe that accuracy doesn't really matter for something that will hold decaying matter. I did brace it with another pallet board at an almost 45 degree angle.
We'll see how this goes. Perhaps next year I'll do something more permanent.
Took the snow fence off and added a wire mesh to the inside. Using a tarp around outside to protect from the wind and one on top to prevent rainfall from getting it too soggy.
Addendum: Have discovered that a wire bin doesn't work all that well if one likes their compost very fine, it leaks out through the wire. It's fine for courser stuff.
Update: As of summer of 2011, I don't use these for composting anymore. A local farmer bought the feeders.
We compost most of our leftovers from our pecan processing plant (the stuff that is not composted is used to fill holes in the road, used as mulch in the garden, or whatever else we could think of).
Climate change has been affecting agriculture but there are ways to combat these effects, as writes Agricultural Coordinator Mahara from Malawi - findyourfeet.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/protecting-soils-to...