Composting in the Suburbs - Materials...
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- Ok Nicholas so you have a farm and you can get hey or straw and cow manure, but I don't, how do I make a real quality compost in the suburbs without access to the farm. I am glad you asked.
I did not always have access to a farm and honestly sometimes it is a lot of work to bring all that material from the farm to the suburban permaculture site. This is how we have in the past, and for the most part still use gather and use material for compost in the suburbs to make beautiful garden rich planting material.
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We have very little organic matter here in the desert. To fill our deep holes for our trees we bought compost and straw and my husband has been wood chipping old wood. Then we have the added microryza and worm castings. Hopefully this works out for us until we find a better way to get more organic material here. Love what you guys are doing!
I drive around my neighborhood with a 4x8 trailer and pick up bags of leaves around halloween/early november and i can get two weeks or so of leaf collecting (zone 5b). Two trailer loads is normally enough
Brilliant - thanks!
Duh, neighbor leaves, what a fantastic idea! Around here, they pay to have their leaves taken away. I have been considering using cardboard, like we already do in our worm bins, since we receive a lot of boxes at our business, but the neighbor's leaves is perfect. I guess it does not matter too much if the neighbors use chemicals on their lawns since the leaves fall onto the lawn and probably would not have been sprayed.
Hi Nicholas, do you compost the bags also? We have compostable bags that say they are only compostable in an industrial facility. Will they be ok in the hot compost pile?
I've ripped them into smaller pieces and use them sparingly in compost hot compost pile. They're also not bad to use underneath all the layers and the sheet mulched garden
Firstly awesome job. I have 2 comments though... When you pile up those kitchen scraps and let them sit anaerobically, you are making a ton of methane. This is 30x worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2. You should be doing everything in your power to change your system to have minimal time in anaerobic conditions (ideally zero). I'm trying to be as kind and diplomatic about this, but that is really really really bad. Like really really bad. Everything permaculture is trying to reverse bad.
Regarding fats and dairy, one other problem with them is that they can dissociate into oils. These oils coat your compost and make it hydrophobic. That then makes it go anaerobic also. These should really be processed separately, not just for pest/rat issues, but also (and mostly) because they can create anaerobic and hydrophobic sections in your compost system, especially if it isnt turned daily.
I hope you take that criticism the right way because we are all on the same team here. Other than those things, what you are doing is awesome, and the more people we can get connected to these things the better.
Great comment. The only small thing that I can add is that one could capture the methane in a digestor. I've seen them available for homes, but I'm not sure about safety and bottling.
@@kentvandervelden indeed, they are a great option, especially if done on a big scale, like bringing in massive amounts of scrap from restaurants. Very big, especially in places that stay relatively warm all year. Happen Films just did a video on an Australian guy who uses a pretty decent size digester to heat his home with.
Thanks. However know that composting itself also releases methane as well as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. every 1 unit of carbon released, 21 units of methane are also released, according to the Canadian government.
@@schoolofpermaculture do you have a link for that, that sounds like something would like to learn more on of that actually true
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/cl3014