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Our Disastrous Summer Garden

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ith better raccoon fortifications. Take out stone fruit that isn’t performing (Kelly has wanted to do this for a long time but I’ve dragged my heels). Take better notes. Improve soil and restart a composting project. Come up with small metal cages to enclose fruit (I have a notion that involves 3D printing–more on this later). How did your garden do this summer?...

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Compost Piles on Fire!

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Composting, Gardening
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...the biology. BioCycle has a whole article on fire prevention in municipal composting facilities that covers this common problem. So what situation(s) can lead to a fire? Here’s what can happen with a low moisture, large pile with little air exchange, combined with water getting into the pile in a place where there is enough air to support biological activity and chemical oxidation, but not enough to cool the pile. An old, dry compost pile, or a p...

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Saturday Tweets: Two Weeks of Tweets for the Price of One

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Saturday Linkages
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...co/xmQtGVd1NC — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) December 6, 2016 Is Community Composting an Emerging Economic Opportunity? https://t.co/6FLmb8RiOr — UCUrbanAg (@UCUrbanAg) December 6, 2016 Grow Vegetables In Winter With A Mini Greenhouse – GardenFork https://t.co/enhfGpgaEz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 6, 2016 If your city has streets and highways for cars, it has all the raw material it needs to operate without them https://t.co/XrFTqgGcDH —...

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Talk and Vermicomposting Workshop With Nance Klehm Sunday March 8th!

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Events, Gardening, Permaculture, Vermiculture
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...s option! Stay after the talk for a short workshop taught by Nance on vermicomposting, that is, home composting using a worm bin. This is a fun and easy way to transform your kitchen scraps and waste paper into gold, even if you live in an apartment. Worm castings are a fantastic food for house plants as well as garden plants.You don’t need a strong back or much space to compost with a worm bin. Worm-shop participants will go home with a functioni...

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