I started my first compost bin in 2008 and I was so jazzed up and excited about it. I was going to turn my yard and kitchen waste into black gold! Grow awesome vegetables! Save the earth! Yeah, that didn’t happen. I never thought about how not to compost, I figured stuff just naturally breaks […]
3 Productive Homestead Recyclers
One thing that separates a productive homestead from an expensive hobby farm is the homesteader’s ability to close waste loops and recycle nutrients back into the production system. Here are three easy ways to get started accomplishing this task…
A Few Simple Way To Reduce Waste
In the United States we waste a lot of food but food gets wasted almost everywhere because of storage issues to the consumer waste. According the to the United Nations roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption goes to waste every year. That is a lot of food. You […]
Composting: Tumbler or Pile?
My dad is a master gardener and composter who always kept two or three large bins which he turned and rotated, and even let the chickens scratch through now and then. So, when I wanted to start composting for our urban garden, a three-bin setup was my choice. The problem, for me, with bins is […]
Putting The Gardens to Bed
The mornings have gotten frosty and we may be only weeks away from the first snow, so we have finally put our gardens to bed. The first step is simply to remove the gone-by plants from summertime, but after that there is a lot more which you can do to ensure that next year’s growing […]
3 Bin Composting System
Today I am going to talk to you about composting, which is a very popular thing to do these days. Everyone loves to say they compost but do they really know what they are doing? I am far from an expert in this arena but I’d love to share our method. After all, it works…
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