Tag: YIMBY composters
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
A tree stole my compost!
Does your compost pile never seem to fill up, always seems dry and powdery...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Is your cool compost… cool?Most backyard compost piles are cool, which means they don’t achieve consistent temperatures over 55 degrees Celsius for...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
The great turning
There is both fear and mystique surrounding the turning of compost piles. Many people never turn...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Carbon cap and store
There is a little trick you can do every time you add ingredients to your...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Hot, or what?
There is a fever that gardeners catch once they have made their first successful hot compost...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel meadows
The good, the bad and the beautiful
In my work as a compost educator and volunteer on the YIMBY*...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
When I go out door-knocking with our YIMBY* composters, looking for households to offer us weekly buckets of food scraps, I am...
Feeling the heat?
It can be hard to stay warm during these winter months, and let’s face it, it can be hard to make it...
YIMBY compost hubs expanding
YIMBY is set to expand access to backyard compost hubs in Castlemaine after a very enthusiastic response to a call for new...
Art under the microscope
Lisa DennisAs part of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival's 'Art Window Trail', passionate local backyard composter Mikaela Beckley has created an art installation...
Our organics are not ‘waste’
Transitioning to a localised economy is both pressing and exciting.
As we learn of recycling industries in crisis, rising...
