T – Page 208 – Crazy About Compost

Introducing…the Dirt Factory!

Something really inspiring occurred in west Philadelphia recently - the opening of the Dirt Factory, a community composting facility located at 4308 Market St. I truly believe that this concept/design will become a template for others to implement throughout the city, and hopefully throughout the country. What does it do? The site is run by University City District and it provides a place to dispose of fallen leaves in the area, to then turn into compost for its gardens. Even better, it's open once a week for anyone in the neighborhood to drop off up to 5 gallons of material. Two Earth Tubs (pictured above) were installed on the site and can process an enormous amount of material, creating high quality finished compost in short time. As you probably know,…

Plastic Worm Bin-07-12-12 (article)

I'm a regular reader of Bentley Christie's redwormcomposting.com and he just posted recently about his new worm bin aging experiment...check it out: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/plastic-worm-bin-07-12-12/ As he demonstrates, it's really important to add your materials long before you get your worms so the insides are nice and damp (but no pooling on the bottom) and the contents are mixed up evenly. I had my bin for a few months, but the upkeep on it got to be a little much for me, and that's when I switched to the Worm Inn...no more moisture issues with that thing. Although I recently skipped town for a little over a week, and when I came back I thought my worms were all dead from a dried out system...luckily I still had time in this 100F+…

Starting a New Humanure Compost Pile (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BWc-RjuWbs Watching this video makes me wish I lived outside the city with a bit more space! The creator of this video is the founder of The Humanure Handbook, which is a classic guide on creating great compost from human manure. If you haven't read this, I strongly suggest checking it out even if you don't plan on building a system. His observations and insights are great, such as calling the human race a disease on page 1... dude's spot on.