Yes in My Backyard
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Adding soil, or not?
When looking back at many early recipes for compost making, I often see soil recommended as an important compost ingredient….
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Take it outside
Between the chopping board and the compost pile there sits another piece of composting ‘equipment’ that often gets overlooked, but…
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To lime or not to lime?
It used to be pretty standard advice to add sprinklings of garden lime to our compost as we built them,…
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The ‘Williams Manoeuvre’
I first met Lisa Williams when YIMBY were out looking for new composters in her street in north-west Castlemaine. We…
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Winter Warmer Workshop
Is it really possible to keep our compost hot in these cold winter months?If you’ve been following the Compost Conversation,…
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Meat and dairy … in or out?
I’m sure you have come across the claim that you can’t or shouldn’t compost meat scraps and dairy products. Given…
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You can’t compost that…can you?
Have you been told that you can’t, or shouldn’t, compost a particular thing? Perhaps it is onion skins or citrus…
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Cellulose, chitin or lignin?
The bodies of all living things, from the largest trees to the smallest microorganisms are mostly made of carbon, organised…
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How to use your ‘mind blender’
We have talked before about the importance of getting the moisture content of our compost piles right. Our favourite image…
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The leaves are falling
“Did you see the wind today, blow the autumn leaves away? From on high they fluttered down, some were red…
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Compost in our autumn garden
Autumn in central Victoria is pretty spectacular. As the rains bring a flush of green and the nights cool, our…
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The Compost Conversation – Flat out for great compost
Note: We have decided to leave our article on making biochar until after the fire season is passed. There is…