How to Maintain a Vermicomposting System
Cassandra Ford, the city’s composting manager, explains how the department maintains its “Can of Worms” vermicomposting system.
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Low-cost vermicompost showcase in Bhanasandra, Karnataka
Murli Krishna showcases low-cost vermicompost during an exposure trip for farmers at a government cattle farm in Bhanasandra, Karnataka
Duration : 0:7:1
Kitchen Compost Bin Minus The Worms
I started a kitchen compost bin since I’m done with worm composting.
For more information, please visit www.UrbanOrganicGardener.com
Duration : 0:2:55
Kitchen Compost Crock
If you’re a composter then you know that sometimes it’s feel like a chore to take your kitchen scraps out to the compost bin. No one wants to run outside every time they eat an apple or chop some onions. Well you won’t have to anymore if you get a compost crock.
You may have even seen a compost crock before and not realized it. They look a lot like cookie jars. A compost crock looks great and no one will ever know that you have a container of garbage on your kitchen counter. Now whenever you have used up coffee grinds just add them to your crock, filter and all. Fruit and vegetable peels, tea bags and any other ingredients for your compost bin can go right in there. You don’t have to take them outside to your compost bin until you’re ready.
If storing stuff on your counter that you’re used to putting in the trash doesn’t sounds like a great idea to you, don’t worry. Kitchen compost crocks come with replaceable carbon filters. They fit neatly into the lid of the crock and eliminate odors. No one will ever know that it’s filled with stuff all of your kitchen waste.
Kitchen composters come in either stainless steel or ceramic versions so choose one that best fits the dcor of your kitchen. Now just because you can save your organic waste in a kitchen crock doesnt mean that its okay to get lazy and never empty the contents into your compost bin. Now that would be gross. Depending on the size of your family you will probably have to empty it at least once a week. I suggest owning two compost crocks.
After you empty your indoor composter, its a good idea to rinse it out. A quick blast from the hose while youre outside is fine or you can clean it back in your kitchen sink. Every once in a while you may want to give it a thorough cleaning in the dishwasher.
Stop throwing away those banana peels, tea bags and anything else that could be used in your compost bin to make an terrific organic fertilizer. Its almost like throwing out money. A compost crock will make saving these items more convenient and that will make composting more convenient too.
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Easy to use Auto Opening Kitchen Compost Catcher.
A retro fit kit – that makes a under sink door hung Kitchen Compost Catcher Auto-Opening.
An easy and quick homeowner do-it-yourself installation. The Auto Opening feature makes doing the right thing with kitchen compost quick, easy and clean. Hands free for dish clearing reduces the possibility of cross contamination; no-touch access to the container while tossing compostables.
Greater Adoption of good ideas is readily accepted when the end user is kept in mind. When doing the right thing is easy to fit the idea into our lifestyle. We get on board… we ‘pitch in’ …we make waste diversion and composting part of our lifestyle.
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Gardening with Compost Tea AMAZING RESULTS
See our square foot garden using compost tea. See how to use your worm bin to make compost tea
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Vermicomposting: Born Again Worm Bin
We were saddened by the death of our first worm bin because of some imbalance of moisture, acidity or bad paper products. We’re super determined to continue the worm composting process with a homemade bin. We took the tray from our old bin (a big kitty litter pan) and gathered some scrap wood from our communal backyard at the San Mateo Eco-Village and got the process going again. The basic set up for a healthy, homemade bin is plenty of ventilation, damp paper bedding, food scraps, green plant stuffs, red wiggler worms and some shredded dry paper topping. We’ll keep monitoring our bin to see how it’s going and hopefully, cross your fingers, our worms survive and make us rich worm castings for our plants. If you make your own bin, let us know how it’s going and what your secrets are!
Music: Santigo (Stuttering Breaks Mix) by DJ Rkod
Duration : 0:3:9
Green gardening guide – part one
In the UK, we each spend an average £200 each year on our gardens.
That’s a whole lotta cash that could be used to make our green spaces green in the eco-friendly sense – by growing plants to organic standards, using compost instead of chemical fertiliser and deploying natural pest controls instead of going crazy with pesticides.
To learn the how, we took a trip to Garden Organic Ryton to meet environmentalist, writer, CAT staffer and organic gardener, Allan Shepherd.
This is part one of a two part series. For part two, head to youtube.com/newconsumer
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Setting Up my Worm Composting Bin Part 2
Part of my Eco Suburban Lifestyle Series: Part two of setting up our worm composting bin. Bin purchased from www.happydranch.com (shipping was slow, but it was the best price I found for the five tier bin) and worms purchased locally from www.wormpoop.com.
Duration : 0:7:53
Setting Up my Worm Composting Bin Part 1
Part of my Eco Suburban Lifestyle Series:
Part one of setting up our worm composting bin. Bin purchased from www.happydranch.com (shipping was slow, but it was the best price I found for the five tier bin) and worms purchased locally from www.wormpoop.com.
Duration : 0:6:8