http://www.learningherbs.com/ Watch this video on how to make compost. Learn about the compost ingredients, how to compost, on making compost, as well as organic compost in this how to make compost video.
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How to make compost & the Five Compost Ingredients
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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Restoring The Ice Shelf With Huge Greenhouses Solar Wind Power Plant Cities
Friday, August 14th, 2009
This is a VERY brief clip of my plan to build Huge Multi Level Organic Greenhouse/Solar/Wind/Power Plants. To eventually create enough food so that no one wants for anything they need. The extra food for all of our Ethanol/Ethanol By-Products & Compost needs. Create large Green Power Plant Ice Makers on the Polar Ice Caps! Making ice is not a new technology.
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Information on a compost system?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Does anyone have any information on the process of building a pretty in depth compost system, potentially at a summer camp? Also, how much would a project such as this cost?
The basics for composting are:Organic waste – newspaper, leaves, grass, kitchen waste (fruits, vegetables), woody materials ;
Soil as a source of microorganisms;
Water; & Air to provide oxygen
http://home.howstuffworks.com/composting1.htm
To ensure good aeration and drainage, put down a 3-inch layer of coarse plant material, such as small twigs.
Add about 8 to 10 inches of leaves or other dry organic wastes from your landscape and/or kitchen.
Provide nitrogen for compost-promoting microorganisms by adding 2 to 3 inches of fresh grass clippings or fresh manure. If fresh nitrogen sources are unavailable, add about one-third cup synthetic fertilizer (36-0-0) per 25 square feet of surface area.
Add a sprinkling of soil to each layer to inoculate the pile with microorganisms.
Moisten the pile, but try not to get it too soggy. Turn the pile every so often to keep it from matting & to add oxygen. Don’t use meat products.
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-703/426-703.html#L5
Video on composting using leaves:
http://www.technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxSYbVHOmHog
Using a three bin method:
http://www.technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-QaoMxCfOrw
Composting yard waste:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-703/426-703.html
Making a compost turner using salvaged materials. I’d add some holes in the container for more air/oxygen. You might get creative & use a large plastic garbage can for a tumbler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcPz4XF-yUM
It’ll cost you mostly your time & effort if you use materials you find in the environment or materials that can be recycled or donated. It really doesn’t have to be an elaborate set up.
Good luck!!! Hope this helps.
i am interested in making my own compost, but i am worried about rats…?
Saturday, August 8th, 2009if i have a compost bin in my garden am i likely to get rats? is there anything i can do to stop them? (and i dont mean old wives takles like hanging wind chimes up)
Reggie is absolutely right: rats can chew through concrete and metal cabling: chicken-wire mesh isn’t going to stop them.
So you need to make the compost heap itself as unattractive to rats as possible.
Keep everything damp: this is better for compost worms (and therefore your compost) and not something that will appeal to a rat looking for a nest site.
Turn the compost regularly with a garden fork to mix it up, put air in (helps the composting process) and make sure the whole mass is still damp.
If the compost isn’t wet enough, human urine, diluted, is better than plain water. And that’s not attractive to rats, either…
As to the compost’s contents: avoid any meat remains or any scraps of cooked food (including bread or pastry.) Raw stuff is generally ok, but don’t add edible waste (like windfall apples for instance) in big quantities. Make sure that there’s lots of plant material (cuttings, prunings, weeds etc) mixed in. If you haven’t got enough woody/leafy stuff, old eggboxes and other unprinted paper or cardboard are good additions, but make sure they’re crumpled so they trap pockets of air and damp so they aren’t useful nesting material.
Hope that’s helpful: it’s the result of 15 years experience with a garden compost heap and 5 years+ with a larger allotment heap. The worst I had was mice nesting in the allotment heap over winter when I hadn’t turned the heap so the centre got all dry and warm.
Good luck!
How can I make my own compost?
Saturday, August 8th, 2009I’m only 15 years old, and can’t afford buying a compost. How can I make my own compost? Or where could I find a cheap compost bin? And how do composts work?
Does it need to be spring or summer for a compost to work? Or can it work during the winter and fall also?
This is great! In bio class, we’re working on a project to reduce CO2 and making a compost pile is one way to do it too!
My friend’s experiment involved constructing a three sided crate from wood to hold the compost in. He then threw the dead leaves, dried grass, sticks and other decomposable material into it.
But the question is do you have a big yard? if you do then this crate will be a great thing to make compost out of. My house has a compost crate and it has tons of fertile soil!
Compost piles: when you pile layers of decomposable (natural) materials and leave it to decompose, you will get fertile soil. This is because the bacteria that breaks down the stuff has oxygen to survive. ( unlike garbage piles, which can be dozen feet high, there is no longer oxygen once you get below 8 – 9 feet so the bacteria cannot live so they do not decompose the trash we throw out: even if it is a decomposable plate or some dead leaves.)
Just make sure you turn your pile over once in a while to help oxygen get into the pile for those bacteria!
here’s a list of things to make compost useable:
http://www.compostguide.com/
you don’t necessarily need to buy one of these things.
Good luck! You don’t know how beneficial this is for you and your community.
worm bin make your own
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Just a little home movie on how to make your own indoor worm bin.
What i did not mention in the video is to make sure to use Red wigglers not earthworms if you do this project.
Also i do mis-speak during the equations but the slides are correct
And since making the bin I also added screening to the bottom holes as well
Duration : 0:9:39
Eco-Friendly Kitchen How-Tos with Behind the Burner
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
http://www.behindtheburner.com Learn how to clean your kitchen the green way, conserve energy and incorporate local fresh market ingredients into your cooking by making your kitchen eco-friendly. Protect the environment and your health with these simple, beneficial steps.
“Trick: Always use the smallest size pot or pan necessary for the cooking task and match the cookware to the right size burner. Cooking with a 6-inch diameter pan on an 8-inch burner wastes over 40% of the available energy.
Technique: Most things in the kitchen can be cleaned with a basic mixture of vinegar, baking soda and lemons. For bigger jobs, choose natural, plant-based cleaning products. For trash, consider using newer biodegradable, recycled plastic bags.
Tip: Buy as much food as you can locally. Most produce in the U.S. travels an average of 1500 miles from farm to plate. That’s a lot of wasted fuel! Buying local also supports small farmers and the local economy.
Tip: Make smart, informed choices at the supermarket. For a complete list of seafood caught in an environmentally-friendly manner and those to avoid, check out the Greenpeace website.
Trick: Think before tossing out food scraps. Many vegetables work quite well in making a chicken or vegetable stock. If you or a neighbor has a garden, save your kitchen scraps in a compost pail and store under the kitchen sink.
Trick: Easily save energy in the kitchen by changing incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs). These bulbs fit in a standard light socket, use 75 percent less energy, last longer and create less heat, which is good for the Earth and your energy bill.
Tip: If you’re in the market for a new appliance, look for the Energy Star symbol. Energy Star is a program used by the EPA to identify products that are more energy efficient, typically 10- to 20-percent more efficient than other kitchen appliances.”
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Turning Compost with the Compost Tumbler
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Making your own compost is a great way to provide your garden with important nutrients. Turning the compost is a vital part of making compost, and this composter makes it easy.
Duration : 0:2:54
How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : What Should You Put in Compost?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Coffee grinds are great for compost. Find out what other yard and kitchen scraps are best for putting into a compost pile in this free organic gardening video.
Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Duration : 0:0:48