I don't know if the plants will like it, but it smells good and has a very nice texture.

blogged at mayamade.blogspot.com/2008/07/barn-tour-part-two.html

Trail of compost laid down by the top dresser.

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.

A version of ones I have done before in Arizona, made from the free palette pile at Canadian Tire.

On the right is seaweed, a common island mulch / compost component

A downed oak snag at the Doyle Center

It's not essential that your brand of compost be the same as your brand of potatoes, but it does help!

We have a big compost box. And to sift it we only had a wee little sieve. Obviously, something had to be done about that.

So I built that massive shooka-shooka box.

Krissi Fiebig, Compost Site Intern with WRRAP. Krissi is collecting food scraps and other organics each week from departmental break rooms and buildings around campus. This material goes into the Earth Tub, where it gets mixed and processed into a rich compost. WRRAP provides the compost at no cost to students (self-serve compost pick-up is located outside the entrance to R.O.S.E) and to programs like CCAT and Oh SNAP! Work on campus but don't have a compost bucket in your break room? Contact WRRAP today for this free service, wrrap@humboldt.edu.

Annually, HSU collects approximately 100 tons of food waste. While some of this remains on campus to be composted in the Earth Tub, most of HSU's food waste is transported to an off-campus worm farm.

Trail of compost laid down by top dresser.

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

A small-but-perfectly-formed DIY Dalek, blogged here.

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

compost heap in preparation

Our Christmas tree was in good shape, but we were eager to clean the house up a bit. Rather that tossing it on the curb where it magically disappears, we put our to good use by chopping the limbs and tossing them into our compost bin.

We got turned on to composting after our 2005 visit to Vancouver Island and seeing black gold soil in a bin in Ucluelet. The city of Scottsdale offers these black bins (made of recycled plastic), and we've been composting in the desert the last 2 years. It takes a bit longer, but we get good soil for our veggie garden.

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

Here's how I went about harvesting worm castings for the first time. I scooped up what looked to be ripe soil in a "finished" corner of my worm box and put it in a bucket. I then dumped it out on a tarp to form a little mountain. I left it out in the sun for a half hour. The worms headed for the coolest region—straight down—and I scraped worm castings off of the top. By the time I had made it to the bottom—yes, I know, this is not exactly Everest, but I was working slowly and carefully on this first test run—a whole mass of worms was down there, so I collected them and put them back into the bin.

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

Pile temperatures are taken using a thermometer with a 4-foot-long probe!

The Swillet Allotments, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

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

Church Lane Allotments

Exploring Sarratt

In most situations, the recommended method for disposing of animal mortality is composting.

It was on a 2004 trip to Ucluelet on Vancouver Island that I got turned on to composting. Even here, in dry, hot Arizona, one can turn leaves, twigs, coffee grinds, fruit peels, vegetable ends, egg shells, stuff you previously just tossed into the waste stream... into beautiful black organic soil.

There is something fulfilling here, even for me, a born in the city boy.

With both bins full, it was time today to release the most "mature" one into the veggie garden. And start again!

Most of the leaves have fallen and the compost bins (and chook yard) are nearly full.

i have an unhealthy love of composed compost.

Cantaloupe.