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What size blowers are you using to move the air

Great video always 🇳🇿❤️

magnificent speaking voice...

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It all sounds good ! But check out the revelations in Australia with the dispersal of ASBESTOS in composted products ! Impossible to remove all plastics and these products should not be allowed to find there way back into the human food chain .

Excellent video, straightforward practical to the point no b/s 🇳🇿

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Thank you.

Thank you for sharing. This test is very doable.

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Great explanations with excellent photos!

John Paul: Great comments as well as great explanations and nice photos ! What exactly is the initial biomass that you are composting ? (leaves, branches, garden clips) I am impressed as I saw no foreing matters (plastics, etc.) I am curious to know... 20 pads to process 20 000 tons per y ... what is the main limiting factor to operate efficiently the proposed system ? Is it the initial blending step (300 t/d) that prevents you to blend and spread the biomass onto the pads or is it the TIME of the year you collect the biomass to be composted ? Or is the collection strategy adopted by the city ? ... Denis, from Montréal, Qc, Canada

Thank you, John, for creating and sharing such useful videos related to composting. For day-to-day operations, I concur that Solvita and Dewar Tests for the compost maturity are practical given the financial constraints of a small community/producer. However, for industrial or municipal composting, I would recommend the O2 uptake or CO2 evolution tests whenever there is a change in their composting recipe, or to cross-check sometimes the results of the Solvita/Dewar test with the O2 uptake/CO2 evolution tests. All you did was great!! I look forward to watching the video on the self-heating test. It was a pleasure working with you. Thank you very much for providing me with that opportunity. I look forward to working with you in the area of biodegradability/composability of bioplastics in Saskatchewan.

So we are regulating compost now

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Thank you for sharing friend. I look forward to trying both methods.

Am dead sure you are not using tags while uploading videos. If you did your viewership and subsciber counts bot would have gone up significantly. I think you are just uploading and then giving the title.

Thanks again. Looking forward to more on the self heating test.

Thank you I would welcome the opportunity to chat about a simple method we can use in Mali, West Africa, to test compost for maturity. Distilled down to basic principles. Thanks

Thanks for sharing, very useful. 👍

This is awesome👍👍👍

Ok how to compost stabilized dry grinded kitchen and garden waste. Adding microbes converts dried food/garden waste into compost? If yes which microbes.

John Paul I got some organic commercial compost like this and spread 2" over my garden rows. I have drip tape watering and neither that nor surface watering wets this compost well. My seeds aren't germinating!! Any advice? Thank you.

V true and less people know it.

Interesting

Thought you should use distilled water

I teach Horticulture, and your videos are super! Thank you so much!

I found your videos by searching compost too dry. I am subscribing and liking hopefully more people will find you a different way! I will be adding another video to my interesting by others playlist which is a library for gardening information. Thanks!

Greetings from south east Asia. Thank you so much for making these videos so scientific and evidence-based. There are many videos about composting out there that provide simple principles, techniques, and tips from experience but not many explained the science behind it in such a compelling way that you did. I have watched a few videos of yours and wish that I have found them earlier. 😂 Can’t promise I won’t aerate just to feel like optimizing is done, but I will fight the urge

This is a great video intro but I wish there was more information shared. Some questions: What is the "cleanliness" of the final output (eg: 99% plastics free, or completely clean) of the Compost Liberator? What is the process used to seperate plastics (especially micro-plastics) from food waste? Where can we follow-up to learn more?

In the UK we have windrows 15ft they still compost you should try leaving the compost longer between turning we do every 9 weeks

Buying compost is such a lottery, I'm glad I no longer need to after I started making my own.

Thank you too

Wouldn't this be illeagal, if it has not gone through a thermfilic phase in your country

I can accept stable, but not mature compost. But i would not pay anything for immature compost...

Great point!

Well, I changed my setup. I think that my pond air pump and the setup that I was using is not sufficient enough to make a real difference and to make it worth to pay for the energy. I had turned it of and I did not notice any difference. A larger pile with a larger blower fan would be better, but I can't do that here in my urban setting. I might revisit the concept at a later stage. Maybe that it will work better with different pipes that cover the footprint from the pile a bit better and that have larger holes, or something like that. What I was using now was not intended to be used for this purpose. So for now I have put my pile on top of pallet, and instead of a conical shaped pile I stacked my pile straight up, and I created some holes in the pile so that air can flow from the bottom to the top. I also added some more bio mass, but I think that my nitrogen and carbon ratio is still not optimal, at least not for the ambient temperatures that we have right now. I think that the pile has too much carbon, but during the summer I can collect and add more nitrogen rich material to the pile, so that is what I am going to do. However, it is not all bad because there is a composting process happening because the pile does reach 25C, and the pile is also packed with worms. So at the bare minimum I will get good vermicompost. But I realize that I need to be patience and that eventually the fungi will complete the composting process. And the pile even might start the hot composting process after all as soon as the weather gets substantial warmer and when I have added some more nitrogen rich material. This weekend the temperatures go up substantially for a couple of days, Saturday the temperature might even reach 25C, so I am curious to see what that is going to do with the temperature inside the pile. I will post updates on my channel if something noteworthy changes.

Great video as always thanks for sharing your knowledge🇳🇿

I've run into this making leaf mold soil, rushing using last year's ground leaves the next june. When I grind leaves in the fall, if it's a warm fall and I can get 1 strong hot cycle and 1 warm cycle, plus another turn of the pile, the next spring I can screen that pile and let it sit for another month, then it's usable as stable and mature in june........ but, if I don;t get enough turns of the pile in and get that last screening in april done early, that pile can;t be used until July. It really needs the 1.5 months in april/may to go hot/warm again.... or, I'll end up with stable leaf mold soil, not mature.....stable, but immature leaf mold in a 100 gallon pot can run a bit hot again, causing some stress on baby plants and seedlings, where as mature leaf soil will not produce any such outcomes....... Anyhow, you must grind your leaves, make the pile at least 3 cubic yards, and get 3 turns (covering on after the 3rd) in before winter for success by next june.... it's damn near impossible to get fall leaves viable for next spring, when used as the sole soil medium for growing (like a peat moss or coco, but much, much better). This all only applies to northern latitudes, as it's easy to keep microbial activity in southern leaf mold or compost piles throughout the winter. I think there are also leachates coming of the leaf mold piles, like tannins and such, that plants really don;t like.....so you kinda have to leave the pile exposed to the elements some, rather than coveredall the time, as a way of moving those tannins and such off the pile when it rains (or you have to water the pile occasionally). WHen you soak an oak leaf, some remarkable stuff leaches into the water. I am pretty sure some of that needs time and composting for viable leaf mold soil. It appears you can grow just about anything with deep, mature leaf mold soil beds......add aerated compost tea feeding if you want stellar plant health and production.

Great video!!!! Can you send me some info on the aerated compost system. I'm interested in using it at my four compost facilities in California. Hope to here from you. Thanks

I find it funny that you in this video had to go educate the individual involved in this. As you said Creston which I used to live at now has to figure other things out. Yet their given a huge government grant to start it with... Sounds a little fishy to me

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Thank you!

Great topic, I’ll stick around. Thank you.

Great information on composting 🇳🇿

Excellent and valuable information, thank you.

Thank you for sharing. Soon there will be an update on my small experiment.

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Thanks for another great vid. I'm making compost on a much smaller scale. I keep 11-12 yards in process.. I'm very selective about my inputs and still have to spend a lot of time removing plastic. It's easy to pick out red and blue pieces, but small black pieces are very hard to identify. I've done a little experimenting and found it takes five screenings to remove most of it. I understand that's not practical to do on a larges scale. Hopefully better and more affordable commercial removal systems will be available in the near future.

Very cool!