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For a healthy and thriving garden, nothing beats having your own compost, and Geoff is here to show us how easy it can be to assemble, turn and make it. With the help of interns Juan, Ian, and later Chico, Geoff is making a quick and hot compost to ensure his garden remains healthy and fertile while he travels overseas for the next two months.
Geoff is utilizing the Berkeley Method for composting, but he has made some modifications to the recipe to speed up the timeline, using only 10 turns over 14 days instead of following the traditional 18-day cycle. To better understand this method, developed by the University of California, watch Geoff's animation at [ Ссылка ] or download the "Warp Speed Compost" infographics at [ Ссылка ]
Key Takeaways:
- Turning a compost pile more frequently, as much as once a day, will make it heat up and decompose more quickly.
- Hot compost should be composed of roughly equal parts brown manure, green manure, and carbon material. It should have plenty of water, too.
- Inoculums of very rich material can be put into the middle of a compost pile to help get things fired up quickly.
- Compost piles should be at least one cubic meter, which is a gravity-fall pile of about 1.5 meters high.
- Creating better soil with lots of soil life is integral to sustainable systems.
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About Geoff:
Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world's major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other and to return the surplus.
About Permaculture:
Permaculture integrates land, resources, people, and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no-waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.
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