Category: Composting

A trial, NOT a recommendation, of growing in fresh horse manure with straw and a bit of hay, from the neighbour’s heap. I shall add the final results here in November 2017 with details of harvests, including a comparison with the kohlrabi planted into composted manure in the nearby heap. Currently they are four times…

Ohio University is home to one of the largest in-vessel composting operations at any college or university in the nation. The OHIO Compost Facility allows the university to divert its food waste from greenhouse gas-producing landfills and instead to create a nutrient rich soil amendment to enhance our campus landscape beds and intramural fields. Source

With the right balance of greens, browns, water, and oxygen our community compost pile has reached temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that the pile is actively decomposing which should produce usable compost in a couple months. Source

Lettuce plants can produce for months when harvested by hand (no knife!) and kept tidy (fewer slugs!), I show you the method here. You also see the results of an experiment with different composts for sowing, how to plant and the use of covers to protect from weather and pests. Plus the beds are no…

we share a simple way to make organic fertilizer with used teabags/ Best diy liquid fertilizer for any plants #shorts Source

Composting is going to be a part of every New Yorker’s routine starting Oct. 6. Source

Learn how to make compost step-by-step so you can get finished compost in just 6 weeks! No fluff here. No regurgitated theories. Just practical steps that work in any garden, anywhere. If you ever felt like you were left in the garden without a compost guide that everybody else got, fear not. These composting tips…

At UNH’s Organic Dairy Research Farm, UNH researchers have launched an innovative composting program that provides a high-quality compost product and captures the heat energy for use elsewhere on the farm. It’s part of University Professor John Aber’s work looking beyond the cows to see the farm as an agroecosystem. The project is supported by…

Compost Facilities consist of a structure or device to contain and facilitate an aerobic microbial ecosystem for the decomposition of manure, other organic material, or both, into a final product sufficiently stable for storage, on-farm use, and application to land as a soil amendment. This video explores how Barry Higgins implemented this conservation practice on…

Paul Campbell has been a sanitation truck driver for 18 years. His most recent route has him lugging 300-pound bins filled with watermelon rinds, coconut shells and other compost onto a truck in the dead of the night. He sees a part of New York that few ever get the chance to glimpse: its vast…