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- 01 Cold composting: the pile that takes a year and needs almost nothing Not every pile is a project. A passive stack on the ground, built once, turned once, produces compost and leaf mould with about twenty minutes of work a year — and it is…
- 02 Kitchen and home waste: what goes in, what stays out Nineteen items from the average kitchen, sorted by whether they belong in a compost pile, a worm tray, a bokashi bucket, or none of the three.
- 03 Running a tumbler properly: two charges, not one Tumblers fail in a specific and predictable way — the material balls up, the middle goes anaerobic and the temperature collapses. The fix is partly technique and partly…
- 04 Working out C:N and moisture before the pile is built Every smell problem in this log traces back to a ratio that was wrong before the material went in. The arithmetic takes ten minutes, needs nothing but a scale, and…
- 05 The 18-day hot method, and why the size rule is not negotiable Turn every second day, keep the pile above 55 °C, and you can have finished compost in under three weeks. The catch is that the method only works above a minimum…
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