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Posted by
Elbourne 9 (
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Sat, Dec 31, 11 at 18:34
| Next week our church will host 175 people for a big project. We will prepare 3 meals a day for 8 days. That will, no doubt, produce a lot of kitchen scraps. I would much rather compost all of this for our gardens, rather than fill the dumpster. I will also have a good quantity of corrugated cardboard at my disposal. Any suggestions on making this work?
I'm thinking of building some pallet compost bins, then layering cardboard, kitchen scraps, and brown leaves throughout the week. Then letting all that sit until next year, probably emending it in the spring with grass clippings once we start mowing the lawns again. |
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RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| Layering sounds good. Be prepared that such an amount of cooked food waste will attract a large number of animals, especially rats. There is no structure of reasonable cost that is effective for both aeration and keeping rats away from food. |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| Speaking of animals, I guess I should be concerned about our raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, and wild pigs too. Perhaps I should figure out a way to build a wire mesh lid on the bin. |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| A volume of organic waste that size and that "wet" needs special handling. Or are you just considering raw preparation waste? |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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- Posted by pt03 2b Southern Manitob (My Page) on
Sat, Dec 31, 11 at 23:30
| Sounds like it will be a substantial amount. I'm assuming coffee grounds as well. Plenty of browns will be required I'm thinking. Toss in the wildlife and you might have more than you bargained for. Lloyd |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| What kind of "special handling?" |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| a worm farm? i would put it straight into the garden. len |
Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| If your ground is not frozen, consider trench composting on the sites of future Spring and summer gardens. Depending on the soil character, a trench two feet deep and 3 feet wide will accomodate quite a volume of waste. Add about a foot of waste lightly compacted. Cover the trench with reserved soil, leaving a mound about a foot and a half high. By mid Spring you ought to be able to plant directly into the somewhat raised bed marking the now-decomposed and worm-filled waste lens. |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| Our ground is not frozen. Its 75�F here today. That is a good idea. You have me thinking of a spot for bananas. |
RE: 4,200 meals of kitchen scraps
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| The trench suggestion seems most practical to me ... and has benefit of not attracting critters. The redwormcomposing.com site has a section on pit composting. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Vermicomposting in trenches
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