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Composting Fall Leaves

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:14:04 +0000

How to compost fall leaves and other vegetative material. Shows inexpensive bin and how to turn compost. This is one of many videos that will follow the gardening season chronologically in Kansas City. We hope that people can follow along and work in their own gardens. Organotill features organic no-till methods.

Duration : 0:11:30

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Compost in 40 gallon Containers for Container Gardening-Recycle your trash for compost

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:14:03 +0000

Hi! This is Going Organic. You can find our website at “www.goingorganic.weebly.com”! Today I am going to talk about composting.
It is winter time here in Central Florida. I am composting in containers to prepare for a container garden in the spring. I’ve drilled 3/8″ holes in the bottom of these 40 gallon containers. I’ve added oak leaves to the containers with shredded paper and cardboard from the home shredder, used coffee grounds from Starbucks, water from the fish pond, egg shells, cow manure, vegetable scraps.
All those old bills and junk mail you shred at home can be a carbon source for your compost. This is one more way to recycle and not send paper to the landfill.
Used coffee grounds are a good source of nitrogen. Once the grounds are used, their ph is close to neutral. So they are very safe for plants. I picked up this bag full of coffee grounds the other day. Starbucks has a recycling program for their coffee grounds. Anytime, you can walk in and ask for their used coffee grounds. They will pull the whole trash bag full of grounds out and double bag it for you. The other day, the server even carried it out to the car for me. I just want to say “Thanks!” to the Lake Mary Starbucks for all their free coffee grounds.
I’ve been using water from the fish pond, since it is used as liquid fertilizer in hydroponic systems. I have a page on my website on how to build an easy portable fish pond.
I save the egg shells from cooking, since tomatoes like calcium. I let them dry out overnight. Then I break up the eggshells into small pieces and add them to the compost.
Eventually I will substitute worm castings for cow manure. I didn’t start on my worm farm early enough to put it into this compost. The worm castings will provide much more nutritive value directly to the plant.
I had a lot of potatoe peals left over from Christmas dinner that I added to the containers a few days ago. Composting is a great way to recycle much of the waste that you usually take to the curb. Did you ever wonder how much of the trash in landfills is comprised of food waste. Well, according to the Department of Agriculture, it’s approximately 100 billion pounds every year. The average household alone ends up throwing out 14 percent of their food purchases.
Every few days, I dump the leaves into other containers to stir up all the leaves and increase the oxygen level in the mulch.
I put these large black garbage bags over the containers to accelerate the composting. This soil will be ready when all the leaves have broken down to the point where they can’t be recognized as leaves anymore. At that point, it should look like rich black soil.
So let me know what you think about the video. Also contact me at my website: “www.goingorganic.weebly.com”! I will keep you updated this coming spring on how well the compost turned out. Thanks for watching.

Duration : 0:4:45

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Composting toilet

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:58:04 +0000

A small documentary about the composting toilet on national geographic, showing an interesting solution to a huge environmental problem. Could this be a new renaissance for the composting toilet?

Duration : 0:4:34

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Loveable Loo Eco-Friendly Compost Toilet

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:05:01 +0000

This video is obsolete because we now make a new and improved version of the Loveable Loo. The new video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jhFKSjvqX4

Duration : 0:8:16

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Starting a New Humanure Compost Pile

admin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:55:43 +0000

From HumanureHandbook.com: This short video clip shows a humanure compost pile on its first day. The empty bin bottom is dished out, the “biological sponge” is added, and toilet materials are deposited.

Duration : 0:4:31

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My New Vegetable Garden – Parts 2 and 3 – Plus Composting Fun!

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:17:01 +0000

Just a couple updates on my vegetable garden. And some footage of the super awesome composter!

Duration : 0:7:16

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Compost Tumbler Assembly

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:39:02 +0000

Compost tumbler assembly keeps garden author Doug Green http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/compost.html busy for a while sorting out the best way to assemble this massive drum composter.

Doug uses a lot of compost and compost tea in his gardens so when he had a chance to trial this compost tumbler system, he accepted it as a challenge. The first challenge was to figure out how to build it. And that’s what he’s doing in this video.

Doug shows you some of the pitfalls and techniques in assembling this compost drum style unit – from making sure the plastic sits in the hot sun until it’s soft enough to work to figuring out how it all goes together and still turns.

The first year’s experiment with this unit wasn’t spectacular because Doug didn’t add enough “brown” or carbon based material to the mix. Also he added far too much material over too long a time. So instead of getting a good composting process going, it tended to rot. The second year, he loaded it up more as a batch loader (a shorter time to load everything) and then didn’t add more material once the first load was in. He also balanced the green:brown ratio (5:1) better than the 10:1 he probably used the preceding year. The composter worked well and produced useable compost.

Because Doug produces a great deal of compost in any given year and continuously batch loads his pile (he has two piles for alternating years) the drum system isn’t large enough for him. But a smaller garden would likely find it fine to use (or have 2 – one cooking and one loading)

These and other organic techniques can be found on his websites at http://www.douggreensgarden.com

Duration : 0:5:32

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Aim Environmental: Composting Facility for Green Bin Program

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:39:07 +0000

Welcome to the City of Hamilton Central Composting Facility operated by Aim Environmental Group. This facility was designed to process 60,000 tons of source separated organic material per year by incorporating some of the worlds most innovative composting technologies. The design team at Maple Reinders, Aim Environmental Group and our partners at van Kaathoven Group and Christiaens Group collaborated to bring the finest in European, in-vessel tunnel technology to produce a system known for rapid decomposition of organic feedstock and the production of Ontarios highest grade compost.

The material that is brought to our facility is inspected before being loaded into a shredder. The material is conveyed under a cross belt magnet to remove any metal contaminants before it is loaded into one of the ten Phase 1 tunnels. The shredded waste is distributed in uniform layers over the tunnel, which is equipped with a heating system, an aerated floor and a sprinkler system to nourish the microorganisms responsible for decomposing the organic matter. It will remain in the Phase 1 tunnel for 10-14 days.

The material is then moved to one of six Phase 2 tunnels, where the material is further broken down and pasteurized in order to meet strict regulations. This second phase takes 7 to 10 days, and after cooling, the material is ready to be screened.

The highly efficient screening plant is able to extract plastics, stones and other ferrous material from the compost in one pass. It also separates the finished compost from organic material that wasnt fully broken down. The screened, finished compost is transported to the curing building for maturation, while the unfinished compost is added to the incoming waste.

The facility has an advanced computer system which is able to monitor and control all elements of the process such as water and air flow, leachate collection, and temperature. The process computers also control all of the air entering and exiting the building. To maximize odour control, negative air pressure is maintained on the plant floor and all exhaust from the building is passed through a biofilter before it is released to the outside environment.

This state-of-the-art composting facility has been in operation since 2006 and is still recognized as one of the most advanced compost facilities on the continent. Together, Maple Reinders and Aim Environmental Group outlined the facility to ensure it had a modular design to allow for future expansion to address emerging opportunities. All facilities are custom-designed in order to meet the demands of their market.

Duration : 0:3:26

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Coffee to Compost

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:44:13 +0000

A video about composting coffee into compost.

Duration : 0:2:5

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Building a composting toilet

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:44:07 +0000

It’s so easy to build your very own sawdust composting toilet. Here’s how.

Duration : 0:1:24

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