Your idea of making the compost with a chimney is a keeper and has shades of the Johnson Su Bioreactor with its 4" perforated PVC pipe, spaced 12 inches apart to aid in the aeration of the compost material. All of my heaps have turned anaerobic up to one foot from the bottom or better due to moisture accumulation and material compression.
Wow, no comments. I'll make a comment. Neat regenerative permiculture way. I love how the food waste from Whole Foods and the other companies are being utilized.
thank you for sharing your ideas and practices. I love your channel content. Been a sub for a while. Im building a food forest myself, and value your information. God bless
We have a factsheet on Backyard Composting that covers that. It says that the cause of pests in compost piles comes from adding meats or other fatty foods to the compost. The solution is to remove any meat products from the compost and covering the pile with soil or sawdust. For more information copy this url into your search bar: pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1495/BAE-1744web.pdf.
Removing meat from the pile isn't going to solve rodent issues. If you have a rat problem, you'll have a rat problem regardless of what you're putting in it. Compost piles are a well heated nesting area, a source of diverse food, and often central to other sources of fresher food. Seal your composting as best as possible. This will help keep them out and make it harder for them to find in the first place. Agitate the piles frequently. This will encourage the items to decay faster, making them undesirable to the rodents sooner. This will also deter them from nesting as they would need to rebuild their nests often and likely lose offspring because of it. Accept rodents as part of the ecosystem and only be concerned with them when they are actually an issue and not just an unsightly, mental roadblock.
Here is a factsheet published by OSU Biosystems & Ag Engineering about the basics of vermicomposting (worm composting): extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/the-basics-of-vermicomposting.html
Mine has been producing heat for over 2 months now. My piles start out carbon heavy, but large, which means they're big enough to get hot but they don't break down that fast because carbon heavy piles take a while to decompose. A couple times per month I'll add a few bags of coffee grounds, although if you have other types of nitrogen rich materials like manure that can work too, and that helps keep the heat going.
Your idea of making the compost with a chimney is a keeper and has shades of the Johnson Su Bioreactor with its 4" perforated PVC pipe, spaced 12 inches apart to aid in the aeration of the compost material. All of my heaps have turned anaerobic up to one foot from the bottom or better due to moisture accumulation and material compression.
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Wow, no comments. I'll make a comment. Neat regenerative permiculture way. I love how the food waste from Whole Foods and the other companies are being utilized.
They have a really nice compost heated greenhouse.
thank you for sharing your ideas and practices. I love your channel content. Been a sub for a while. Im building a food forest myself, and value your information. God bless
Thanks! We are glad to have you here.
Do you get the wood chips free as well?
Love it, want to try this
Thank you for t6his nice video!
I would like to do this with compost but how do you handle the rat problem? Thanks.
We have a factsheet on Backyard Composting that covers that. It says that the cause of pests in compost piles comes from adding meats or other fatty foods to the compost. The solution is to remove any meat products from the compost and covering the pile with soil or sawdust. For more information copy this url into your search bar: pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1495/BAE-1744web.pdf.
Removing meat from the pile isn't going to solve rodent issues. If you have a rat problem, you'll have a rat problem regardless of what you're putting in it. Compost piles are a well heated nesting area, a source of diverse food, and often central to other sources of fresher food.
Seal your composting as best as possible. This will help keep them out and make it harder for them to find in the first place.
Agitate the piles frequently. This will encourage the items to decay faster, making them undesirable to the rodents sooner. This will also deter them from nesting as they would need to rebuild their nests often and likely lose offspring because of it.
Accept rodents as part of the ecosystem and only be concerned with them when they are actually an issue and not just an unsightly, mental roadblock.
Do you have information about that worm compost sifter? We would love one.
Here is a factsheet published by OSU Biosystems & Ag Engineering about the basics of vermicomposting (worm composting): extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/the-basics-of-vermicomposting.html
Where are you located
How long does a compost produce heat?
I think its like 30'-35 days if done correctly
Mine has been producing heat for over 2 months now. My piles start out carbon heavy, but large, which means they're big enough to get hot but they don't break down that fast because carbon heavy piles take a while to decompose. A couple times per month I'll add a few bags of coffee grounds, although if you have other types of nitrogen rich materials like manure that can work too, and that helps keep the heat going.
YOU NEED AIR CIRCULATION UNDER COMPOST ->> PUT SKIDS ON FLOOR UNDER COMPOST PILES .
I kinda agree tbh. It's always the bottom of my piles that have tended to go anaerobic.