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The wind and the cold rain
have stripped the leaves
from our yellow flowering
Witch Hazel, which
is mostly sticks now.
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
Week 4 of the 2015 Photochallenge, subject: man-made in nature
This is a compostable soup container from work. The line "shut up and compost me" runs across southern Africa, urging the owner to return this man-made object to nature.
I have been composting all food scraps throughout the winter, no meat or bones. I even have a generous group of friends who drop off their kitchen compost for me throughout the year. I share what vegetables I get with them during the season. It's a win, win! I have resolved this year that nothing leaves the garden space. Everything goes in the bin. If there are invasive weeds they get sun dried before being put in the bin.
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.
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.
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: ÂŁ18 $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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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.
This is what I like to call "finished" compost. It has achieved a high (130-160) temperature during composting then cured for a long time.
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.
A defiant orange slice in the compost bin. Dare to resist, fruit, your degradable days are coming.
(I mostly liked the bright spot of color among the grey, done w/o any PhotoShoppish tricks)
Composting worms at work making rich fertilizer from newspapers and junk mail - right by the Adult Reference Desk.
April
There is now a book! stefan-szczelkun.blogspot.com/2018/09/compostion-advance-...
But this photo above ain't in it - in spite of being in my 100 most pop album.