How to Make Compost Compost is the ultimate ingredient for building fertile soil. If everyone composted their kitchen and garden waste, the world would be a cleaner place, and we would all enjoy more productive organic gardens. Some folks are intimidated by this unfamiliar and seemingly mysterious process — but have no fear! Composting is so worth the effort. Compost also vastly improves soil structure, allows the soil to hold in moisture better and improves friability (workability). After surveying hundreds of MOTHER EARTH NEWS readers and checking out what our Facebook community had to say during Compost Awareness Week 2012, we were blown away by the many answers to the question of how to make compost at home. Many households compost using multiple methods, and the techniques described here are a distillation of strategies employed by MOTHER EARTH NEWS readers. Composting Techniques “To keep from feeding critters, our kitchen waste first goes into three black compost containers until unrecognizable.
6 Tips for Building Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds and Planters When my wife and I first started gardening in earnest, the results were discouraging. The seeds we planted would sprout and begin to grow, but soon the rate of growth would slow and produce undersize vegetables. Some would succumb to damage from insect pests and slugs, and even when we purchased healthy seedlings for transplanting, they failed to grow to the size we expected. During our first few seasons of gardening we spent more time weeding than anything else. Over time we learned what most successful gardeners know: building soil is what gardening is all about. With hopes of sparing you the mistakes we made, here are some tips for building productive soil for your garden beds and planters. 1. We purchased a half-dumptruck load of soil to develop a perennial bed for blueberries. 2. It is common that new gardens do well in the first year, even without additional soil inputs. After one or two crops have been grown in a garden bed, we plant a ‘green manure’ cover crop. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Referencing - The Harvard System Department of Lifelong Learning: Study Skills Series (Download pdf version) Introduction As a student, it is important that you identify in your assessment when you are using the words or ideas of another author. The following guide tells you why you need to use a referencing system, shows you how to insert references in the text of your assignments, and shows you how to compile a reference list. Why you should use a referencing system As a part of an academic community, it is important that you show the reader where you have used someone else’s ideas or words. Plagiarism can have disastrous consequences for students. On a more positive note, referencing is important for reasons other than avoiding plagiarism. Collecting all the details: Accurate referencing In order to have an accurate record of what you have researched and therefore an accurate reference, it is important that you write down the details of your sources as you study. For books, record: For journal articles record: Conclusion
Composting Techniques for Anyone Compost bins can be made of repurposed materials, like these pallets. Composting doesn’t have to be difficult, nor does it require a strong back, large acreage, livestock waste or expensive bins. Even apartment-dwellers or those with physical limitations can put their kitchen waste to work. The easiest method of using kitchen waste and thin paper goods is to bury them. If digging is out of the question, use your blender. The next step up is cold composting, which is throwing your biodegradable waste into a stationary, closed compost bin. If your compost bin is a tumbler, meaning that the barrel that holds the compost can be externally turned, then you should have hot compost. The next, more difficult type of composting requires a shovel. Then there is the three-bin composting technique, which requires regular turning. Besides being a little taxing on the back, this method of composting, or any open-air method, releases methane into the atmosphere which contributes to global warming.
Composting with Worms An Introduction on The Worlds Best Compost: A Fair Overview This guide of The World's Best Compost is brought to you by FaceLube, your best source for Best Face Moisturizer for Men and the Best Male Grooming kits. While you are here, don't forget to see FaceLube's amazing broad spectrum anti-aging sunscreen and happy customer compliments on Amazon. Video Summary: Learn to compost with worms. Video goes over selecting a container, starting a worm bin, caring and troubleshooting An Introduction on The Worlds Best Compost: A Fair Overview Would you prefer to discover a way to feed your plants in a natural way that might make them the tastiest food you have ever had? The thing that makes soil healthy is extensive amounts of microbial action, which in your own garden can be achieved with the use of colloidal humus compost. An Introduction on The Worlds Best Compost: A FairOverview You could discover the path to dropping excess pounds and improved health through this book.
Recycling by product Products made from a variety of materials can be recycled using a number of processes. Building and construction waste[edit] Aggregates and concrete[edit] Concrete blocks in Germany. Asphalt and tarmac[edit] Asphalt including asphalt shingle can be melted down and in part recycled. Gypsum, plaster and plasterboard products[edit] Because up to 17% of gypsum products are wasted during the manufacturing and installation processes. Bricks[edit] Intact bricks recovered from demolition can be cleaned and re-used. Batteries[edit] Some batteries contain toxic heavy metals, making recycling or proper disposal a high priority. Lead-acid batteries, like those used in automobiles, are relatively easy to recycle and many regions have legislation requiring vendors to accept used products. Biodegradable waste[edit] Kitchen, garden, and other green waste can be recycled into useful material by composting into leaf mold and regular compost. Electronic waste[edit] Electronics disassembly and reclamation[edit]
Screen Compost Now to Make Your Own Seed Compost for Spring If you make a plentiful supply of good compost, you can screen it to remove large particles and be self-sufficient in seedling and potting compost. In the summer months, compost piles work fast. If you can set aside some time before cold weather to screen the amount of compost you will need for seedlings in the spring, you can then have unfrozen compost ready to use when you need it in January or February. Even better, if you put the screened compost into some kind of bin, bed or box in your greenhouse, you can transplant lettuce into it, and the watering to keep the lettuce growing will help the compost organisms to mellow out the compost over the winter. Worm eggs will hatch out, the lettuce roots will make air channels throughout the bin, and you can harvest the lettuce before you need to sow seedlings. Making Compost Screens There are two basic styles of compost screen. To make a flat compost screen, cut two sets of battens and make two frames that will sit on top of a wheelbarrow.
Garden compost making. How To Compost With A Compost Pile - Pictures And Description Custom Search When you think of garden compost - what comes to mind? Warm sunny days spent planting a vegetable garden... only to be spoilt by having to plunge your gardening fork into a smelly mass of slimey, rotting vegetable matter. Well, if that is your experience, you're just not making compost correctly. Vegetable gardening and garden compost making are like Laurel and Hardy or Morcombe and Wise - I added the second pair because they`re more my era and I don't want you thinking I'm that old... get my drift! Garden Compost - Getting Started It is tidier to make your compost pile in a bin or compost container. Locate your compost bin in a sheltered, level area of the garden - where there is good drainage and access if it is possible. Garden Compost - How/Where To Use Garden Compost Your compost can be used at any time of the year but for maximum impact it should be applied to the existing soil in the autumn or spring. How Do You Make Garden Compost? How To Make A Compost Pile Home Page
Mass Production | EBSCO Sustainability Lean manufacturing is a business tool designed to eliminate waste at every stage of the production process. Most companies misuse their resources in ways that are not immediately obvious. The waste might be in the form of equipment that is not in top working condition or employees that do not have what they need to perform their jobs most effectively. Using lean manufacturing principles, companies first identify their sources of waste and then redesign their processes to eliminate them. Toyota pioneered lean manufacturing with the Toyota Production System. The concept of lean thinking exploded in 1990 with the release of The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production by James T. Given the series of recalls recently announced by Toyota, lean manufacturing is under some scrutiny. For a free trial of EBSCO Sustainability Watch click here. Read Full Post »
Build a Worm Tower To Spread Compost Over Your Garden A worm tower not only enables worms do their work at composting, but it also helps them spread out and distribute the compost in your tank garden. This is such a low maintenance way of keeping nutrients cycling in your garden, and easy to put together. All you'll need is a 3 or 4 foot piece of PVC piping (or a 12" concrete pipe) and a flower pot. According to Ecofilms, be sure to use a food grade PVC pipe to avoid any chemical contamination - and the concrete pipe often works best. Once you've got your pipe, the next step is to bury the tower half way down in your garden with half of the pipe sticking out the top. Then, add some manure, compost worms (it's important to use compost worms), and secure with a flower pot lid. via Eco Films
Practical self sufficiency through food skills. Cork - Sustainable Materials Like hemp and rubber, cork is another sustainable material that has been used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world to build sustainably constructed structures for many years. Cork is a unique material that is harvested mainly in Portugal for a number of things. However, within recent years many people in the sustainable movement have found uses for cork in building projects. Below is a brief introduction to the material of cork and some of the ways that you can use it for your own projects. Cork as Bricks There are a number of sources of sustainable bricks to choose from. It is no surprise that the sustainable movement has gained so much traction over the past few years. Harvesting of Cork One great aspect of cork is that it is so easy to harvest and is in great abundance. Timber is usually commercially cut in huge swathes which disrupt the ecosystem and contribute to deforesting on a large scale.
Composting 101 for citydwellers | Page 4 As Tom Philpott wrote in the introductory essay to Grist’s Feeding the City series, urban agriculture took a huge hit once combustible-fuel machines replaced horses — and horse manure — as the vehicle of choice in cities. Farms need fertilizer, and it’s more efficient to grow where the sources of it live and poop. However, every day city dwellers throw away huge amounts of organic matter that could be turned into that precious material — through composting. Yard trimmings and food scraps make up 26 percent of U.S. waste, and once this organic matter hits the landfill, it breaks down slowly due to lack of air: your farmers-market tomato can produce methane, a deadly greenhouse gas, in a not-so-green afterlife. If you’re going to all the trouble to eat locally grown, organic vegetables, it’s rather a shame to truck their remains away to landfill prison when you could be feeding them back to the earth. So why aren’t you composting yet? First, you need to know the basics. Municipal composting
A Little Bit of Personality: October 2013 Though I write often about cognition patterns and how thought processes differ between each of the sixteen types, I feel like I haven't really gotten across in full what I mean. And is there any way better to get across concepts simply and efficiently than pictures? I think there is not. Now, I can't make stick people like the greats, and I don't want anyone to think I'm trying. This is just literally the best I can draw :P Well, pretty much... Everyone thinks :O It's kind of a necessary part of being conscious. A common misconception about Introversion vs. Instead, Introversion and Extraversion describe where you primarily turn for information and input. In truth, it's as simple as that, though those differences effect all a person's decisions and actions. The difference between iNtuition and Sensing has a slew of misconceptions as well. Typical side effects of these focuses, again, are varied. Thinker vs. Cognition - Step One Take home lesson: Your personality type doesn't change.