Okay: here’s the thing. My compost pile has taken some big hits in the last year or two. Nothing bad, mind you- but my use has outpaced my production.
I’ve been thinking about getting an electric shredder- to put the clippings/leaves/whatever through prior, with the hopes that increasing the surface area might help speed things along.
Is this worthwhile? Anyone have a machine recommendation?
(I’m simultaneously working on a better compost setup, worry not) #gardening#compost#compostodon
@ai6yr Just think of all the methane & waste that protocol will generate! (Yes, I am totally composting any and all dead chickens I encounter into soil, not landfilling them). #PolyCrisis#Compostodon
@compost My super fancy compost bin. Anyone can build one with spare materials or even just have a pile. The bin helps keep out small animals and my dog from the pile for me. Once every years a bear comes along and opens it like a cardboard box so I don't fuss about it being nice. What type of bin if any do other people use?
@jbussieres@compost. Thank you for sharing your bear aware outdoor compost system. Our outdoor system in southern Minnesota does not have to be bear aware. Our system has metal T posts and sheep wire fencing. It’s usually a two bay system. Our pallets lean on the fence to add shade. Our cover is cardboard weighted down by boards. We rotate the compost with a pitchfork working from the open, north side. #compost, #compostodon. Composting will save the world.
@jbussieres@compost. It is important to have easy access for the pitchfork and I. Our compost material volumes work for this system. #compost, #compostodon.
I often, justifiably, bitch about modern tech being shite, so it’s only right I share my delight at digging a ten year old GoPro out of the cupboard, getting it some new batteries from eBay and finding it works perfectly well. Even the phone pairing app, which has been “upgraded” with all manner of nonsense, still works with it.
Trying a new composting method. The photo is of the layers after 2 weeks of collecting organic matter, and just prior to turning into the bin again. Keen to see if this works, as I'm breaking lots of composting rules! #compostodon#FairyBootFarm
I empty 3 into pots to use - most recently I planted old eyesey spuds. Then 2 gets dug into 3. Then 1 gets dug into 2. I add paper is it's heavy. Then 1 has space for kitchen scraps again.
This is a huge task for me since #LongCovid. It takes several sessions over several weeks. I am very grateful to the many worms and other bugs in there for doing most of the work.
What we are working on at our composting station is to have enough homemade compost of the highest quality to cover all our needs and never buy compost again. Here is a nice video that tries to explain how to achieve this goal.
Our account proved that by curating a topic like compost, we were able to reach out to the #Fediverse and provide a tool that can be a solution to fixing the #Climate.
We need to understand that by changing our habits and asking ourselves every day: what can I do for the climate today? We can be the change we want to see.
And by sharing our practices on #Compostodon we can inspire others to do the same.
Hey hey #compostodon! Here's the Aerobic Digest - the third one this month, by golly - featuring a timelapse of me filling a heap with stinky food waste and rabbit excrement. Plus a video of a visit to a worm farm and some ponderings about the viability of municipal and community composting schemes.
Filled my #compost bay nearly to the top today thanks to some gifted rabbit poop and food waste, plus my own backlogs of stuff, and attempted a timelapse video!
Here’s the low-res version. Subscribe to https://the.aerobicdigest.email/ to see it in better quality and a bit slower, with an explanation of what's going in there, coming as soon as I write it.
I have a #compost question for #compostodon followers. Egg shells? They take a long time to decompose - do you separate, crush, throw in, sieve or exclude?
@matthewguy. Egg shells are nutritious treasure. We crumble them into the compost pile and grind them up to dust for the red wrigglers in the worm tower. #compost, #compostodon, #Vermiculture.
I did not even know there was such a thing as a fungal-dominant compost pile. Not all the compost piles are the same.
Some compost piles have more bacteria in them because they have a lot of greens that make the pile heat up.
Some other piles have more fungi in them because they have more carbon material like wood chips or leaves.
Here we have a fungal-dominant compost pile because we stored all of the carbon material we could in one pile. So we will keep this practice to help balance our native soil that has way too much bacteria.