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Hot Compost
Overview
Welcome
Compost Log & Planning Tool (download enabled)
Step One: Plan for efficiency
Why plan?
Choosing a site
What to gather
Green Waste Management Plan
Weed tea with Dock growing in paddocks (1:38)
Step Two: Gather materials for your hot compost
What to gather? It all depends on what you already have.
Grass Clippings: when to cut the lawn, should you dry them first? (2:20)
Gathering Gorse, to cut up in small chunks and add to the hot compost (3:08)
Collecting sheep manure (4:57)
Making sheep manure slurry (2:58)
Step Three: Build your hot compost pile
Building methods - simple, complicate, low budget, or beautiful. Something for everyone.
Build - Review of gathered materials (6:30)
Building the hot compost - Timelapse (2:47)
Build - Building the Foundation (2:50)
Build - layering (4:18)
Build - shaping the sides (1:27)
Build - different types of carbon (1:22)
Build - adding liquid: slurry, weed tea or water (2:05)
Biodynamic Compost Preparations: Stirring Valerian (2:11)
Build - Adding the biodynamic compost preparations (3:27)
Build - Adding a final outer skin layer (3:29)
Hot compost - Monitoring the temperature (3:13)
Using Biodynamic Compost Preparations 502-506 (5:48)
Step Four: Use your compost
Don't forget to use your soil to grow food and flowers. Beautiful compost piles are not meant to be admired for very long.
Checking on a 3 week old pile of hot compost (not yet ready to use) (5:00)
Finished Compost - sifting, sorting, how to use it (4:18)
Original content from the first version of this course
Building techniques (5:58)
Using the biodynamic compost preparations (10:33)
Opening up the April 2020 pile after three months (1:53)
May 2020: a small pallet enclosed compost pile (1:48)
Titirangi garden: April 2021. The beginning. (5:53)
Titirangi garden dismantle: June 2021. The middle.
In situ composting: case studies
June 2020: In situ compost to open in September 2020 (3:13)
December 2020: starting with everyone's famous time lapse video
March 2021: Woven sides surrounding the compost
One year later... how the soil looks in April 2021 (1:50)
Composting around the world
Madrid, Spain (Starting November 2021)
Don't forget to use your soil to grow food and flowers. Beautiful compost piles are not meant to be admired for very long.
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