Ambassador Pollinators<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@Broadfork" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Broadfork</span></a></span> Regarding our compost and soil. It is a wonderful spot on the planet for black soil. And composting improves the structure. The location has never been a factory for war munitions, that helps. The location was under a glacier, prairie, deciduous trees and Dakota and Ho-Chunk. <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/nodig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodig</span></a>, <a href="https://epicure.social/tags/compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compost</span></a>.</p>
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It was a cool, overcast morning and perfect conditions for BeetBear and I to clear out the cucumber patch. We managed three final cukes and everything else went to the compost pile, which, in a way, is another harvest, adding to the compost for next season. Next up: We've got to figure out where to store all those butternut squash! Now going to pick more raspberries. 
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#BeetBear
#compost
#Cucumbers
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Lost connection to the office VPN. So made my time useful by temporary removing the woodchip mulch layer. Added #compost, mushroom spores and fresh coconut fiber grounds. Making sure not to disturb the layer underneath it.
Ready to plant my new #plants this week. And then the wood mulch can go back in the #garden.
#gardening
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@Broadfork Vaughly nutty is just right. Your varieties are inspiring. We have a few climbing bean varieties. Cherokee Trail of Tears, Hidatsa shield, and Scarlett runner beans. The bean growing season is going well. #nodig, #compost, #minnesota
It’s always surprising how little #compost comes out of piles and piles of biomass. And then I think about how so much organic waste is generating methane inside plastic bags in landfills, just kind of rotting in place forever when it could be reduced to almost nothing.
Today I covered our two old cowmanure piles (ca. 25m long and 10m long) with grass clippings. The barn is full, and I still had some grass left for composting by covering the piles. I'm already excited to see how the grass will be processed into valuable soil. I'll cover the large pile with a compost fleece.
#organic #compost #compostheap #manurepile #grass #meadow #wood #hardwork
#organic #compost #compostheap #manurepile #grass #meadow #wood #hardwork
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#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.
So, a heap.
Munch it up with the lawnmower to avoid a painful back later and speed composting.
#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.
So, a heap.
Munch it up with the lawnmower to avoid a painful back later and speed composting.
Last week's batch is from the Town Hall #Compost, still quite active, but we have food scraps incoming and need the room! Will rest it for a few weeks while the process winds down.
Since this one is for filling up raised beds and topping up our food gardens, it has been screened through a 20mm mesh. Our new screening table, build from salvaged trestle table parts and an old shopfitting display is working a treat. Removing a few fruit stickers and rubber bands as we screen #sayNoToFruitStickers
#Gardening tip: not original to me: to make big bits of plants into smaller ones for the #compost heap dump them on the ground and run a #lawnmower over them.
Works nicely. I don't think a traditional cylinder mower for nice stripes would do it though. The rotating horizontal blade sort is much like a #chipper
Now to lift some more #potatoes
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership:
" a non-profit organisation helping people learn to cook, access a healthy diet, grow their own food and waste less food."
https://bhfood.org.uk/
Brighton and Hove Food PartnershipBrighton and Hove Food PartnershipWe’re a non-profit organisation helping people learn to cook, eat a healthy diet, grow their own food and waste less food.
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership:
"We help set up and support community compost schemes across the city,"
https://bhfood.org.uk/directory-hub/community-composting/
Brighton and Hove Food PartnershipCommunity composting - Brighton and Hove Food PartnershipWe set-up and support community compost schemes where you can take your raw fruit and vegetable waste, tea bags, coffee grounds, cardboard and paper.
"The Compost Pilot Program, funded by a one-year, $100,000 grant from Carhartt, will launch Aug. 21 via a partnership with Doers Edge, the city’s Department of Public Works, Scrap Soils, and community farms."
https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroits-composting-pilot-is-about-to-begin-sign-up-now/
BridgeDetroit · Detroit’s composting pilot is about to begin. Sign up now
I took a sneak peek at the bottom of my compost bin. There is compost already!!! 
Some layers are quite dry. Next year, I will put cardboard at the edges.
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening #potager #compost
Some layers are quite dry. Next year, I will put cardboard at the edges. #gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening #potager #compost
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I need to figure this out, because I have tall fruit trees and wasps right now.
Compost tumblers for the "lively" stuff has been my approach, seems to keep rats uninterested, but I fear I would just have tumbled angry wasps.
Possibly digging one good-sized hole every year, putting the unusable fruit in it, covering it in its own soil and planting a tree in it a year or two later...