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We dug up compost from the woods in back and sifted them into this wagon. I mixed it with last year's potting soil. The white container is for strawberries.
I originally bought this bin and named it "Yard Waste" because my city used to have free curbside recycling of such things. With the recent budget cuts, they stopped that but still offer free regular trash pickup. Rather than put my yard waste in with the trash that ends up in the landfill, where it turns into methane gas, I'm attempting to turn this bin into a mini home composter by drilling holes into it for aeration.
Today I spent about half an hour digging over the compost & wheel barrowing it to the greenhouse. Not much fun with a wheel barrow that has a flat tyre!
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Mixing compost tea with our Black Gold - finished, cured home-turned compost - to brew overnight. Not appetizing to you and me, but I swear I see the plants in the garden perking up and salivating impatiently for it!
Last of the flowering tulips and residue of this week's vegetable, fruit, and coffee consumption are relegated to the compost bin.
Compost pile bacteria - Wild Heerbrugg M20, HI 100 oil immersion, celestron imaging camera. sub micron
I made a thing. While not exactly fine woodworking, it is wood, and it should work fine. Lynda seems happy. Those front slats just lift out, so don't worry, she's not trapped in there.
I set up the second compost bin that I bought in January in one corner of the backyard.
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This home built machine uses a concrete mixer and screen to separate the large and fine materials after the compost is finished. Only the fine materials will be used in the extractor. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh (pictured), farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
i harvested my first batch of home made compost today and used it to enrich the soil in my new planter box...
how organic of me!
This home built machine uses a concrete mixer and screen to separate the large and fine materials after the compost is finished. Only the fine materials will be used in the extractor. Shawn Preputin, Larry Johnson, and Alec McIntosh (pictured), farmers, create compost extract that is applied to their crop fields to bolster soil microbes and improve soil health. Hill County, MT; June 2022
Everything from the Tomato & Pepper Garden is in this compost pile along with some leaves and existing compost...
Another view of the bins. The trash cans on the left are where I keep completed compost to use year round and also my stash of fallen leaves I use in the bins. The neighbors might think I am a little nuts "stealing" their leaves during fall time, but if they do, they don't ever mention it. :-)
I needed to move the compost heap from one side of the garden to the other, in order to dig up the flags next to the bench.
I tried shoving it and working it, but in the end, it was easier to shove it over, slide the plastic free, put it where it needed to go, and then re-fill it with the compost, which had been lying about on the floor.
Don Filomon Delgado produces his own organic compost to fertilize his farm and looks forward to getting the support to implement additional improvements when the conservation funds become available.
I needed to move the compost heap from one side of the garden to the other, in order to dig up the flags next to the bench.
I tried shoving it and working it, but in the end, it was easier to shove it over, slide the plastic free, put it where it needed to go, and then re-fill it with the compost, which had been lying about on the floor.
I've got two 16-gallon bins I found on the street. This is the active one, and the one next to it is just digesting, and being used. I pull most of the worms and large stuff out of the digesting one, and mix in some soil from the local flower store and from old pots. Both composters are covered, with small vents on the sides.
Everything on the roof is grown in about 50% compost.
This thing is teeming with worms. They've digested all of our cooking scraps since March.
The volume of food scraps that goes in here is huge, compared to the volume of compost produced. I think that bugs carry off some of it, and some rinses out through the drain holes in the bottom, but mostly it gets denser.
One side advantage of doing this is that there is no food rotting in our kitchen garbage.
This is my indoor worm composting bin. I've decided to add a second tray to it. The collage shows the following:
Upper left: the first tray, topped off with paper to contain smells.
Upper right: the first tray, most paper removed. You can see the bedding, which is coir and paper.
Lower left: My finger in the bin, showing that the level of the bedding is about 2 inches below the top of the tray.
Lower right: The second bin in place, directly on top of the bedding in the first tray. You can see the fine grid of holes in the bottom of the second tray. This allows the worms to move from the first tray up to the second tray.
You can see pictures of bedding in the second tray here.
Raw material used to create compost extract by Alec McIntosh, Larry Johnson, and Shawn Preputin, farmers in Hill County, MT. June 2022
San Francisco's Chinatown with the Leica M6.
At the end of the day dump trucks sweep through Stockton Street in Chinatown. All the food vendors, stores and shops along Stockton wait until the end to take out scraps & compostable trash. But before the dump trucks make their rounds a few people get the pick of the lot in the hopes for edible scraps of food to take home.