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We enjoy creating compost and worm bins on a small scale to produce beautiful gardens.

We invite you to join other enthusiasts who share the same interest in composting at #Compostodon.

Composting is a simple way to take #climateaction that anyone can practice.

Please take note that in this community, we do not tolerate climate change deniers and appropriate measures will be taken if necessary.

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compost, to Plants
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Our local #seeds and #plants free #library is the best thing our local community has done for #gardeners.

We can give the extra plants that love to volunteer in the #gardens and exchange a few #herbs, #trees, plants, or garden tools that people want to share.

Here is the link to the FB group if you want to find some inspiration and start some for your community. It is my last reason to still use FB.

I sure wish #mastodon had groups like this one.

#gardening #growyourown

https://www.facebook.com/share/yYV6XSwWdNMJD4d5/

Lizette603_23,
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@compost Don't do FB but love gardeners. Good on ya!

thepoliticalcat,
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@compost I will NEVER use Facebook. But perhaps you could start a Fediverse-wide Free Library for gardeners?

thepoliticalcat,
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@compost It's amazing how many of our lovely LGBTQ fam are gardeners AND readers. I guess when you have to hide who you really are from most people, it makes sense to want to do things on your own. Nothing better than sitting in the garden, surrounded by this little piece of a beautiful planet. Our home.

thepoliticalcat,
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@compost I understand. It's just that they're siphoning so much data about you, constantly. Fortunately, we have a couple of local Seed Libraries with emphasis on open-pollinated and heirloom varieties adapted to our local microclimates.

thepoliticalcat,
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@compost ๐Ÿ™€ ๐Ÿ˜€

compost, to random
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Controversial topic I would like to discuss.

Because I lived a lot of my life with vegan people who had to lecture me a lot about how the meat industry is evil I would like to remind a few things about growing veggies.

A lot of the veggies we buy at the store and eat are sadly produced with a lot of toxic products.

Veggies require pesticides so that they will look pristine in the store and the buyer will feel confident to buy them.

Veggies also requires fertilizers that can be just as toxic for the environment than for you.

Unless veggies are grown in a very organic fashion and on a soil that focus on biology only and not on chemistry, you are not being much different than the guy who buys his steak from the conventional meat industry.

This is why it is important to understand how our soils work and why we need to stop poisoning ourself with the food we eat.

JetlagJen,
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@compost the more I learn, the more convinced I become that it's not what we eat that is the problem so much as how it's produced.

For example, we in the UK quite like asparagus. Yay veggies, but it might well be grown in Argentina and flown in.

Meat typically has a high environmental cost. But we regularly cull deer as pests, so eating venison is using a waste product.

Vegan as an everyday default is fine, but there's a lot of extra nuance and complexity that is also important.

mikeswimm,
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@compost Iโ€™m not vegan, nor do I lecture anyone, but there is absolutely no question that a veg based diet is significantly better for the planet than a meat based one.

As for chemicals Iโ€™m with you. But remember that the meat industry is consuming just as much or more of those plants to produce meat protein much less efficiently.

kensingtoncomposthub, to random
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Great work by our volunteer wildlife gardeners revegetating a monoculture lawn.

We planted Knobby Club-rush (Ficinia nodosa), Blue Tussock-grass (Poa poiformis), Magenta Stork's-bill (Pelargonium rodneyanum) and Small-leaved Clematis (Clematis microphylla).

Volunteers fan out across a grassy area, with community compost bays in the background
Plastic trays of indigenous tube stock on the ground ready to plant out
A view down the fenceline, showing the freshly mulched โ€œmoat to separate the native plants from the invasive lawn grasses

compost, to random
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Because I decided to practice daily #yoga at the beginning of this year, I am able to do 3 hours of mowing with a push mower in a row and not be messed up after this.

I am getting close to 50 years old, I am not exactly young anymore. My body used to be in such a bad shape that what I did today was impossible.

Yoga has changed my life and yard work is not a concern anymore.

B_Whitewind,
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@compost I carried this huge bean bag last night like it was a bag of milk.
When I left the city a year ago I had to roll it to the car ๐Ÿ’ช

LJ,
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@compost I need to get back into a daily yoga practice.

gneilyo,
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@compost My 2x/week core class at the Y has done the same for me. Rebuilding a raised bed used to be a surefire way to throw out my back. It's no big deal now.

thepoliticalcat,
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@compost Keep working at it. When you get to 80, things don't work so good, unless you keep them in condition by regular exercise.

yogiron,
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@compost congratulations on your recovery. Itโ€™s what the physiotherapists say: โ€˜use it or lose it.โ€™
Our bodies are originally made to run after deer, climbing trees and hugging bears. We need exercise to remain healthy.

For me it means walking and 4 days a week practicing yoga for an hour.
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’ช

compost, to climate
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Our account goal is not to be popular. Our goal is to inspire a few people to be the change about composting and hope that with a domino effect, they will inspire others.

This is why we have decided to stand for a few topics that are not related to composting.

We want LGBTQIA people to feel included here as I have myself a few letters of the umbrella. It is about to be #PrideMonth and we will celebrate this event.

We stand for the fact that the #climate crisis is a reality. We don't understand why we should follow the feelings of a few old men who are destroying this planet in the name of greed. Fuck that.

Also if democracy is about to be wiped out from the USA we will remind Americans that freedom is never a one-way road. Freedom should never be a privilege for a few people.

JimmyB,
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@compost I post this about once a week at the moment - very relevant to the state of our politics: from the Billy Bragg version of the Internationale

โ€œFreedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and allโ€

Well said Billyโ€ฆ

Adorable_Sergal,
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@compost Earth has an astounding diversity of life, and diversity of living. It's all worth saving. Well, except for the bits that are actively killing the planet's biosphere, but that's a given

Laplantgenetics, to random
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I have a bumblebee nest in one of my piles.๐Ÿ˜ It is an all black bee, so it doesn't photograph well. Composting builds habitat for wildlife.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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#ClimateDiary Delhi recorded highest ever recorded temperature in India at 52.3 ยฐC.

compost, to zerowaste
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The best way to learn for free is to go to your local public and check the they have on the subject.

What was the book that got your attention and made you want to compost? It will help those who want to start.

ivy,
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@compost the veganic growerโ€™s handbook by jimmy videlle!

compost, (edited ) to random
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Today one of my projects will be to start a new worm bin.

Over the warm winter, the worm population has exploded and they need more space to be happy.

If you have any questions on how to install a worm bin at home or your office, feel free to ask the #compostodon community and ourselves.

edit--
This video is a reference on how to start a worm bin and work with composting worms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ve39opqc4

noodlemaz,
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@compost I have a q! I live in a flat but we have quite a bit of balcony space.
The council hasn't given the building organic waste bins.
A block down the road has a compost heap, we we don't have garden space for one here.

Is there anything I can do with our organic waste do you think?
Basements are a no-go for any food due to rats sadly.

compost, to climate
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It is and we will all day celebrate this event.

The gives us two options: deny it or accept the reality. We have chosen the latest.

If anxiety is a thing for you, composting is a simple tool anyone can practice. A worm bin will do that job if you do not have a garden.

If you do not know how to compost there is one thing you can do, go to your local and grab all the books on that you can find.

Please boost this message and help us inspire the and to be the change.

AdamJWest,
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@thepoliticalcat @compost

claralistensprechen3rd,

@thepoliticalcat @compost It depends on the plant. Perennials get mulched with it and annuals get a fresh start each year with compost mixed in the native soil unless it's a melon, in which case they get mounds of 100% compost. And in my compost is lots and lots of used Starbucks coffee grounds...note that native soil is on the alkaline side.

thepoliticalcat,
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@AdamJWest @compost "Wormageddon" is an excellent name for this writhing mass!

compost, (edited ) to random
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Rhonda Sherman is a vermicomposting specialist. Her work in the USA has been a reference for many worm farmers.

She explains in this video everything you need to know to work with composting worms on a small scale.

#compostodon

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ve39opqc4&t=433s

carapace,
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@compost I once found a wee compost worm living under the dish dryer rack, apparently subsisting on the moisture from doing dishes and grout. As in it seemed to be eating the grout from between the counter tiles!

I have mixed feeling about this.

(I put the worm in the compost bin.)

compost, to random
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Tomorrow is the #CompostingDay here are a couple of things you can plan on doing.

We will celebrate this day and share on #Compostodon how we reduce our waste.

https://nationaltoday.com/learn-about-composting-day/

aziz,

@compost I should go check my compost

afterconnery,
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@aziz @compost Ive been trying to set up a habit of checking in on it every morning before heading off to work. That way I can see if I need to mix it up or add water, etc later in the day. Been going well around 110-120F (43-48 C ) for the past few days.

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