Topped up the pile with 6 months worth of 4 horses shit and straw bedding. Will be ready for next spring submitted by /u/mgizzel [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Finally, a day off with suitable weather for flipping and mixythe 2 wee bins. Added some fresh grass clippings to one and a fair amount of wood shavings to the moister one. Should be ready in another few months. Braw submitted by /u/Avons-gadget-works [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

We have a plastic composter on an island that has a mostly dry weather from mid May till late September. There are rains but climate is to extreme these days, so it's hard to predict what to expect. We live 400km away and visit it every 2 months except during the summer when we're more frequent. During the wintertime when there are rains the box is open. During hot days it dries too much even if closed. We made some irrigating systems around the house for plants, and I was wondering if we could benefit from a small sprinkler/nebuloser inside the closed composter. Currently I could attach an i ..read more

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This is a very simple engine that runs on hot water. The water doesn't even have to be anywhere close to boiling. Now I think you could use compost as the source of heat for the water. I think if we worked on this concept a bit it could solve the energy crisis. I think that the nitinol itself might be improved if it was coated with graphene. The graphene coating isn't as hard as it sounds. I love what this community represents. I don't have an active pile going yet, although I'm planning it out right now. We are finally going to have the money to build it right. I think I'm going with a circu ..read more

My husband made me a compost sifter just like how my grandfather made one for my mom 30 years ago. It got its inaugural wheelbarrow full of dirt today submitted by /u/Adventurous_Deer [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I know it's not the best pic, but hopefully it enough. I've got thousands of these larvae. The thin end is the head. Most of them are inside the bin, but these guys are trying to escape. submitted by /u/barfplanet [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Update photo op submitted by /u/MobileElephant122 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Giving the fascination about peeing on compost among males on this sub - I assume it's gender-specific for anatomical reasons - I wonder if that really makes a difference. Are we doing something useful or just entertaining ourselves? From what I can tell online, an "average" person urinates around a half-gallon of liquid a day (800 to 2000 milliliters, with 3786 ml to a gallon) which seems like a lot. Assuming I haven't screwed up metric-to-imperial conversions, that would contain about .065 pounds of nitrogen (source: https://goveganic.net/gardening-how-to/fertilizing-with-human-urine) But I ..read more

I know coffee grounds are one of the best sources of compost fuel, but what about brewed coffee? We’ll drink day old coffee but if it’s been a couple days and we haven’t finished the pot usually we’ll pour it down the sink and make the next batch. Can I pour it on the compost instead? submitted by /u/mintyturkey [visit reddit] [comments ..read more