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Thanks for the breakdown. Cheers to our Veterans!!!%

I need help!!! I have reason to believe the sellers of the home we just got was using cat poop and litter for compost! The fruits and vegetables we were told were good never grew back in our yard. As a matter of fact, everything is dying. Including the Palm Tree in my front yard!! Please help!!!! I hope she didn’t kill her husband feeding him that stuff. He was a good man. We’ve only been here a few weeks. There is redness inside everything I cut down!! What is this??

I didnt have any woid ash so burnt some brown paper that came with something i ordered do you think thats a good idea?

Above 131 degrees celcius is way hotter than compost.. im sure you meant Fahrenheit, great video though 👍

I second that eggshells take a long time to break down! As do avocado peels and pits! I now don't put any of those in my compost! Also, chicken manure -- best thing in the world to speed up the breakdown of your compost. Guess you can tell I'm not worried about salmonella! :)

I have 2 donkeys on a mini-farm. The longest I can "compost" their manure is about 3 months, before I have to spread it in the pasture or use it on something. I add some waste hay, some lime, and turn it some but not terribly effectively. It never heats up! Today I spread some that was 3 months old and had melted down to about 1/4 its original bulk, on some shrubs, sunflowers, and perennials. It was the consistency of dense black mud (and FULL of tiny red wigglers!) Now I'm worrying about burning my plants. My hay is pesticide free. My local ag office hasn't been terribly helpful. Any suggestions? And should I scrape this stuff off my flame azaleas??

Is there a problem with the bleach used to make it white? thanks

Thank you for sharing this… great education for those who do well dabbling but want to maybe grow it a bit.

What about brands like if you care unbleached parchment? I looked up other websites that says it’s ok for that brand to compost

Whaaat? Problem?? Since i was a child: just put a stone on the hole. Simply

Like how he's worried about soil falling out, but he dumps all the soil on the floor

Oh look! A fix for a problem no one has ever had! Sweeeeeet.

How dry and dusty is your soil if it just drops out a 1" hole?

Love seeing another vet out there on the same mission! We're doing the same in rural Oregon, using it to support our veterans programs. We've been building up as we go and just got into more equipment. Your advice is appreciated and valuable.

My grandmother just used to put broken pieces of other pots in the bottom to keep the soil in.

dang that’s legit a good idea

Wow! A genius. 😂

i did this for 5 years, went out in my boots in the pouring rain and marched and stomped all over that dirt! I loved working in my compost while I was singing and feeling the stress drop!❤

Place looks great. We need more of these in this country but I gotta ask, the walking backwards, is he trollin?

Thank you!

Great video, Justin! - Cory from Greener Bay Compost

Cory from Greener Bay Compost here. The paraffin wax that coats most wax paper is made from petroleum-based. Even if the paper is coated with wax made from soy and, say, BPI-certified as compostable, the problem for composters like us is that the paper tends not to be clearly and individually labeled/watermarked as such, which means that we can't possibly know whether it is truly safe for composting or not when/if we receive it from someone. For this reason, Greener Bay Compost does not accept any wax, baking, or parchment papers. The material itself simply isn't valuable enough for us to deal with the headache of it potentially contaminating our finished products. Check with your compost service in your area before giving them any coated papers like this. They'll likely tell you they don't want them. It is best to toss them in the trash. 🚮

The biggest issue is to watch out for is grazon. It will ruin your garden for @ least one season. It happened to me 5 years ago.

Can someone explain the “carbon stealing nutrients from my soil” statement? I was always taught the larger the carbon pool the better plants can fight off pests, pathogens, and stress. Would love to learn more about this.

I use it n the compost pile and also in a bucket of water to make a liquid fertilizer.

We do spoiled hay, shavings, and tree/garden waste (through a chipper), and minimal kitchen scraps with our horse manure. Consistent turning 2-3x per week and I can get temps upwards of 150 with no weeds…. I can make a lumpy; well composted product in about 45-90 days depending on rain.

Thank you Justin

Never had a problem with horse manure, seems like a scare campaign to buy commercial compost.

Thank you for your video from Australia.

Good to know!! I pulverize my egg shells and feed them to my worm farms!🪱🪱🪱

Great info!!🪱🪱🪱

Never had pigweed in my garden until I used composted horse manure. It also screwed my garden because of Herbicide sprayed on the hay. Had to deep turn all the beds. NO HORSE MANURE ever again. Even in the quote Big Box stores compost. Not worth it.

I haven't run any windrows with manure yet but I'd like to try it out as an experiment. Right now we're focused on food waste and that seems to be the "low hanging fruit" for now.

Threw a dead groundhog in a large compost pile and kept it hot & aerated…. Was GONE in just weeks, hair, bone, and all

How big a of space would I need to start my own business?

Thank you for informative channel, Sir. I am trying to do something like this in another part of the world, and your channel is very informative. I have a question, don't you crush the input waste material before sending it to the piling and curing area?

Dangit, i've been throwing those things out for years. Cheers for clearing this up. You're the most commonsense voice I've seen on composting, so if you say a thing's okay, I'm gonna be chill about it.

Damn, that is a good idea I would never have thought of.

So glad you put this out there!! Lots of great points! Citrus does just fine in worm bins as well, just like life, everything in moderation...to include moderation!!🪱🪱🪱

What do you do with the larger screened out pieces after you remove the worms?

Succinct and makes sense. Shame most people don't get understand the dangers of the wrong bacteria and toxo. Looking to get into composting one day but was curious about this bit. You made it click fast.

Thank you

Government over regulation is a scourge on the people the people need to stop voting for

To your point about commercial businesses that adopt your service based on principle but really look at your service as another expense is a great point.....it all boils down to money.....on the other hand the challenge is the opportunity and while i dont have the full answer, i have a glimpse of a vision that is mostly a pipe dream, but the point is we as a society have to complete the circuit.what i mean is our food supply and food growing system is all wrong. We need to move away from big factory farms that dump chemical fertilzers to grow food and move back to using a system that relies on the food scraps going back to the farmers to feed the soil or the livestock that the resterraunt needs to feed its customers. Right now the food is flown in & trucked in from far away, the chef isnt required to send it back because the farmer doesnt operate that way. In our closed loop the chef supplies the farmer with the fertilizer, instead of a big chemical company. The chef literally has no incentive to send his scrap to you in order to make the fertilizer aka compost that the farmer need to raise the produce. If it is possible to create local food supplies that operate in a cyclical way and cut the reliance on sysco and northern haserot, farmers would raise the meat , fruit, and veggies locally, sell to the local restaurant or market to feed the local population, and those people would send their waste to you, and you compost the waste to send back to the farmers as "fertilizer" to replace the nutrients in the soil that grew the food the first time..... To put a fine point on it, the use of chemical fertilizer brought in fromoutside the local ecosystem is the outlier that is disrupting our loop from re connecting itself

Do you guys do anything to get rid of microplastics that screening doesn't get rid of

Thank you very straight forward to follow for a novice gardener like me..👍

why recycle anything that can be used as free compost to grow plants at your house, even just tossing it in a pit/trench to use for planting in a year instead of buying unnecessary compost or soil nutrients

Thank you so much for the information here. We are thinking about starting a composting operation on some land my family owns in East Texas not too far from some major cities and have been trying to work on the economic model for it. This video along with others definitely helps me make sure I take things into consideration that I hadn't before. One question I have is whether or not you have looked at composting via Johnson-Su bioreactors. They seem to be a mostly "build and forget" type of model which would have a lot lower production costs for high quality compost.

So what were the results??

Rip teabags before putting them in food caddy/ compost bags. People are not going to empty teabags when putting them in the above.