Good luck and enjoy presenting! If you are willing and allowed to, could you share your full slidedeck afterwards? Or at the odd chance of it being recorded, please share the video!
Really cool that you are doing this for your local community =)
Nice pile there! I’m guessing this Composting Day is a (US) national thing? A quick search shows ‘Learn About Composting Day’, is that the one?
Please tell us more. Over here (Netherlands) we do have a ‘national compost day’ in March, where you can go and get compost from the municipality. Great initiative, though the quality of compost is questionable as it’s the end product of whatever the municipality collected in the green bins over the year. And people put in, well, everything. So, it is definitely not a ‘Learn About’ day, while we could use that for sure over here in my experience.
Sounds good to me. I wouldn’t sweat it and just give it more time. You have a somewhat decent balance of greens and browns? Not trying to compost a humongous amount of orange peels?
Just to be sure, your pile is directly on the actual soil? Second, how are the moisture levels? In my pile, I noticed an increase in worms when I things were wetter than they were before. Depending on your setup that might be tricky to control. But moreover, time. In the first months I hardly spotted any worms in my pile. After say two years, there are plenty. Never added them myself, they just found the party.
Main mod here! I won’t dispute I have been less active over the last couple of weeks (holidays and other reasons), but I think /c/composting is not doing that bad. It’s not high-traffic, but there are posts every few days and I’d say it’s not anywhere near dead.
When I created the community, I thought about how much I should post and opted to hold back to see how many other compost enthusiasts would come out of the woodwork. Perhaps I have been a bit too conservative, though?
So, the words I definitely didn’t remember while in bed too late at night: Tremorgenic mycotoxins. Please note that I am in no way an expert in any of this, but as a fellow dog-owner I got very cautious when I read about someone actually losing a dog which ate from a compost pile. I found a source (link below) which highlights a few points, amongst this one that might be important:
"Mold growth, particularly Penicillium mold, and production of mycotoxins in food (walnuts, dairy products, pasta), animal feed, or food waste (compost) can result in tremorgenic toxin production. "
My compost pile definitely contains some of the above, but a pure garden waste based pile might not.
Another point worth highlighting as ‘vomiting’ is mentioned in this thread:
"After ingestion, the onset of clinical signs can occur in a few hours. Toxins ingested in lower concentrations appear to cause fine muscle tremors lasting for hours to days, whereas large tremorgenic toxin ingestions can cause seizures and death. Vomiting can be the first clinical sign and may help limit the severity of the intoxication. "
I suppose the size of the dog and the amount they ate from a pile all come into play here. Again, I am by no means an expert on any of this, just a (overly?) concerned dog owner. Please correct me if I’m wrong on any of this, and enlighten us all. If we promote composting in this community, and there is any danger to any member of your household whatsoever, I feel we should inform people and err on the side of caution.
https://www.msdvetmanual.com/toxicology/mycotoxicoses/tremorgenic-neuromycotoxicosis-in-dogs
Please watch out, there supposedly can be very toxic things in a heap in certain stages of the composting process. I’ll try to find out proper info and sources when it’s not hours after bed time but please watch out.
Fun little game. Also reminds me that I proooobably should check on my real bin.
While I don’t have hands-on experience with such a cold climate, two things popped in my head. First, maybe you are better off with one big pile. More volume means the heap will be able to keep higher temperatures. The snow on the cover might actually be a very good insulator as well. Second, and this might be the number-nerd in me, but I’d actually track the temperature with a compost thermometer. I guess you won’t be turning the pile often, and for sure not in winter when it’s covered in snow, but that way you can keep track of what your pile is doing.
I hope someone has better, actual practical tips for you, but keep us updated on this one!
I like this, it shows there’s always a design possible with whatever materials/scraps you have lying around. And don’t forget the simplest design, if you have the space for it: just a pile on the ground.
For folks interested, we have a community dedicated to composting over at [email protected] Perhaps you would like to crosspost this over there as well.
This also very much depends on the climate you are in. If you get lots and lots of rain, you might a roof. If you hardly get any rain at all, you might want to cover up your pile/bin with a tarp or something alike. So yes moisture is definitely very important, but the specifics depend on your situation.
I’ve only been on mastodon for a couple of days, but yes it is active, and depending on what you’re after it might we worth it. For me, it seems to be a nice mix of keeping up to date with things and people I already know, and at the same time stumble upon (related) things I did not yet knew about.
You will have to put in some effort to follow people/accounts/hashtags, but that’s kinda fun. Just try it out!
Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!
Perhaps I’m missing something here but that headline is quite misleading, isn’t it? The NY residents have to separate their green waste. The fact that that wasn’t the case already surprised me, but, this sounds like a big win.
Seen it a couple of times, I suspect it’s a Lemmy thing, something like: whenever your instance starts federating a community on another instance —likely because another user on your instance just subscribed to that remote community— the server starts pulling in posts from the remote instance. Those are simply (wrongfully?) injected at the top of your page as they flow in.
Yes, you created an account on one instance (in your case sh.itjust.works), but you’ve posted this question to the Jerboa community on another instance (lemmy.ml). And I am reading this from yet another instance, slrpnk.net. That’s the magic of the fediverse!
But that also means there are several moving parts and places where things can break or misbehave, hence my question because I am also still figuring this all out =).
Good question. I have no clue how much content/traffic we would get on such a topic. We could do c/Trees but maybe c/Arboriculture is more accurate?
Let me have a look at which communities are already there now, maybe something fits.
Please consider making a dedicated post for that (or any other similar) video if you find it, sounds like it deserves its own place and that way more people might find it.
Managed to find a copy of Sprout Lands, and reading the synopsis I see ‘living hedge’ mentioned. In season 2 of Clarkson’s Farm (Jeremy Clarkson trying to run a farm) there’s a match organized where folks make traditional living hedges, something I had never heard of but found fascinating. So thanks for this recommendation, sounds right up my alley.
Bookmarked, gonna need to find some to time properly check this out, thanks for sharing!