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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)
Checking on a 3 week old pile of hot compost (not yet ready to use)
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