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Composting 101By Agrarian Food Web Consultant L..L.C.
Patti Armbrister
Why are you here?
• Goals
Why
• Soil Health
•“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” - Charles E. Kellogg
Why
Healthy SOIL
Healthy LIFE
Why
There is NO Away.
Recycle everything from your own place first.
Understand the successions of Nature
The Soil Life changes with the succession changes. If want to
grow vegetables you have to have the soil life that lives in that
succession.
Making compost to create the soil life
• If your goal is to grow vegetables than you have to have a balance of soil life living in your soils.
• Get the soil life with diversity of plants and products going into your compost!
Naturally
Plants give back around 75% of what they grew-when healing your soil
50% if you have great soils
Follow Nature
• Keep the soil covered
• Plant diversity of plants
• Mulch plants
• Keep living plants in your soil as much as possible
• Your goal is to do photosynthesis for as long as possible
• Make diverse compost
• Add compost each fall
Composting
Allow us to give back better than what we took away
Composting- Help
Compost Tea Brewing Manual (5th edition)
Elaine Ingham- Soil Food Web
Where to make compost?
Where to make compost?
Close your cycle first
•Use all of your own household waste first
Recipe
30:1 Carbon to Nitrogen
Gather Materials
Do not mix until you can be turning the pile
Heat
Turn at
160
degrees F
What causes the HEAT
Ready to Turn
Heat
Soil Life
How
Plant Diviservity
What to use?
•What is in your area- from our local environment
Take away
• What did you learn about composting?
Resources
• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/health/
• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/soils/health/mgnt/?cid=nrcs142p2_053859
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErga1eP718&t=527s
• Elaine Ingham Composting
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag
• Elaine Ingham presentations on the web
Other resources-
Agrarian Food Web- Pinteresthttps://www.pinterest.com/AgrarianFood/ TED talks,
ideas, gardening help etc...
https://www.pinterest.com/AgrarianFood/agrarian-food-web-composting
Resources- Books
Miracles Abundance
• The Soil Will Save Us Kristin Olhson
• Dirt the Erosion of Civilization David Montgomery
• The Dirt Cure
• One Straw Revolution
• The Hidden Half of Nature
• The Third Plate
