Tag: YIMBY composters
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Chop till you drop?
Imagine what it might be like being a helpful microbe in a compost pile, building the proteins of your body from...
The Compost Conversation – with Mikaela Beckley
Layer your compost like a lasagne!
Regardless of whether you are cold composting, hot composting, or somewhere in between, paying attention to your layering technique...
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 and no matter how many kitchen...
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 three days...
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 their compost, but there are benefits...
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 compost pile that can really improve...
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 pile, it can be quite contagious,...
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* team, I have stuck my nose...
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 amazed by...
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 out to...
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 composters earlier...
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 that celebrates...
