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Level of compost extract pumped into a sprayer. The extractor uses water and air to concentrate living biology in compost into liquid that can be used in sprayers, seeders, and other equipment to jump start soil biology. 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
Un detalle del compost, al que todavÃa la falta un poco para estar listo para ser usado en el huerto.
The Archdruid has turned his peak oil/deindustrializing blog into a course in Green Wizardry. His first practical assignment is to learn to make compost and think about rethinking our industrialized food growing system and start solving our problems within the ecological system itself using what nature already offers more efficiently and with little waste instead of mining all the necessary nutrients separately and ripping off mountain tops to do it or other such ridiculously destructive thing.
Catherine has taken over the composting regime because she wanted to make sure that the proper amounts of carbon were mixed in with the kitchen scraps and then watered. I was being too lazee fair about it and not keeping things moist. She says compost making is just like cooking. Here we can see the lovely redwood shavings I got from Martine and Hilary's house. They live in the redwoods and a fallen tree from last winter was cut up into firewood leaving three giant bags full of wood shavings.
I like to turn compost and sift it. It's very meditative. The Archdruid talks about what I call the ick factor and he calls the Squick factor that keeps people from returning to earth based systems. When I kept a worm bin, my worms were so happy they multiplied prodigiously and when I went to harvest the vermi-compost I was left with a 7 lbs mass of wriggling worms that tipped even my ick factor, but then I adjusted; they were very clean and looked like lava flowing. Wish I had a picture of that, but it was pre-digital.
More details about the composting toilet here: chunkychooky.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-place-and-yours-that...
Tom Gilbert, Executive Director of Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, Vermont, shows off some of the local compost. (Keith Shields, NHPR)
The soldier fly larvae in the compost bin in an all out orgiastic feast. The worms don't seem to mind competing with the larvae. Infact, I think the larvae break the food down quickly into something more manageable for the earth worms.
August
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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September
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:
stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
Our tour group listens to our guide explain how incoming leaves are received in the Fall, and worked into the composting process.
October
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:
stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
From L to R: Marni Thompson, NRCS Soil Health Specialist, Alec McIntosh, farmer, Larry Johnson, farmer, Kailee Calnan, NRCS conservationist, and Shawn Preputin, farmer, examine raw materials used to create compost extract. Hill County, MT; June 2022
By "the City" I mean Albany, NY, but still, I am in a city and composting.
The pile in the wheel barrow is sifted compost and the pile on the tarp is what was sifted. The sifted, made up of material that hasn't broken down and some sticks, will go back into the composter which is the big green barrel in the background. I added in some newer compost and leaves from the back garden where I had been piling compostables during the winter. The wheel barrow was mixed in with dirt and some left over leaves in the back garden. I will mix in some peat moss and continue to work the soil until I cover it with week blocker fabric and we start planting seeds.
Peas and green beans can go in as soon as the soil is ready.
The British population of grass snake belongs to the distinct subspecies Natrix natrix helvetica, but new research published in August 2017 proposed that it should be elevated to full species status, with the name barred grass snake, Natrix helvetica.
Composting culture, you may enlist worms to do their dirty work in making rich earth.
As a worm eats its way through organic matter, it leaves behind castings, digested organic matter rich in nutrients and beneficial microbes. These microbes aid plant growth, help fight off disease nourish plants with readily absorbed nutrients that keep them healthy.
Compost bins are available to campground members at Sweetwater Reservoir - Bonita, California
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.)
Joel was incredibly proud of how well the compost pile turned out. The only thing that wasn't plain old dirt were the grass clippings from the day before.
We invested in a new compost bin. This looked really fairly easy to use on the Internet, but you really need to have muscle to move the handle. It's supposed to be turned daily. Where is Alex when you need him????
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.