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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2023
- For a healthy and thriving garden, nothing beats having your own compost, and Geoff is here to show us how easy it can be to assemble, turn and make it. With the help of interns Juan, Ian, and later Chico, Geoff is making a quick and hot compost to ensure his garden remains healthy and fertile while he travels overseas for the next two months.
Geoff is utilizing the Berkeley Method for composting, but he has made some modifications to the recipe to speed up the timeline, using only 10 turns over 14 days instead of following the traditional 18-day cycle. To better understand this method, developed by the University of California, watch Geoff's animation at • 18-Day Fast Compost [P... or download the "Warp Speed Compost" infographics at / 1967444573442064
Key Takeaways:
- Turning a compost pile more frequently, as much as once a day, will make it heat up and decompose more quickly.
- Hot compost should be composed of roughly equal parts brown manure, green manure, and carbon material. It should have plenty of water, too.
- Inoculums of very rich material can be put into the middle of a compost pile to help get things fired up quickly.
- Compost piles should be at least one cubic meter, which is a gravity-fall pile of about 1.5 meters high.
- Creating better soil with lots of soil life is integral to sustainable systems.
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About Geoff:
Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world's major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other and to return the surplus.
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You know that feeling when a holiday is almost finished and you'll need to get ready to go back home? This is how i feel when Geoffs videos get close to the end :)
Cool video! keep us updated!
I appreciate the tips on how to use tools without doing your back in, that's something I have problems with occasionally when shoveling or digging.
The best way to save your back is to get some other idiot to do the work for you, just as Geoff does.
You're the best, Geoff - thank you for everything.
I am thinking that the little story Geoff tells about the Chinese kitchen floors in the compost is actually something that Steve Solomon has mentioned as a vital compost ingredient in his book "Intelligent Gardener - Growing Nutrient-Dense Food". His compost recipe includes several ingredients that really boost the potency and nutrient density of compost mixes. The main two are rock dust containing many trace minerals, and clay - which is an essential element of a good compost because it provides a cation base for the various ionic compounds to join onto. (Sorry if i got any terms wrong there, I'm more a computer scientist than a biologist).
Old kitchen floor would presumably be made of clay, and would be a fantastic conduit for the various ions created in the composting process to bond to.
In Geoff's case he's in the caldera of an extinct volcano, so the existing soil is quite full of the minerals that rock dust provides, because rock dust is literally volcano rock dust. And also the existing soil is very rich in clay, so once the compost he makes hits that soil the ions in the mix can all bond with the clay in the existing soil.
For anyone not living in such ideal locations, Steve Solomon's research into making nutrient dense composts suggest to add the following 3 items:
1) rock dust (sourced from volcanoes)
2) clay
3) a good few buckets of local soil
I am not the world's best gardener, but my composts made by this method have boosted my own and my neighbours' gardens to significant new levels. Can't say it means that I get massive award winning tomatoes or anything like that, but my soil is just consistently very healthy. The plants are more pest resistant, the taste is better, the whole garden just has better energy, and looks after itself until the next compost and planting.
Steve Solomon is a treasure! Good comment.
good comment, I have not read anything about it, but I certify this information with the wisdom that I have acquired during this time.
@geofflawton
It is telling you.
It's not ready. Many soil biota...visible and invisible... will be damaged or leave.
You started out with too small a pile...not at your armpit.
#asiflifeonEarthmatters
Can't believe even how much Geoff earns and has as helpers, he's still out turning compost doing manual labor. True inspiration
I visited Zaytuna in Jan, and Geoff was working the property, he has jobs and shifts just like anyone else. He definitely isn't sitting back and giving orders..
How much does he earn?
you've gotta love adding capacity for life to exist in the world and cleaning the body by sweating at the same time
Seems to me that that's his JOB
That is exactly how we can earn a good income, by having a good work ethic 😏
Great compost even if it is crunchy😊
Geoff enjoy your trip away overseas😊
I love this long form video of a project from start to finish.
The Hollar Homestead has a faster method requiring less work with chickens that's impressive. Thanks for all you do to help the planet.
They use chickens too on Zaytuna. At least they have used them. They had the chickens fenced in on the slope between the beds in the main production garden with the shelter at the top. They bring fresh hay and materials to add to the compost then do the same thing as in this video, setting up piles using the coop "bedding" except the chickens are doing the turning daily so you just need to move the material into piles down the hill with a fresh pile up top each day and by the time it gets to the bottom, it's ready to store or use. The food from those gardens tastes incredible. 🙂
Have followed Geof all my gardening days. Thank you and God bless.
stuck his hand right in that manure lol big love G
A good person never bossing around yet he is giving helping hands
amazing. Thank you for sharing !
Personally I would leave the compost as is for a few days to "mature" and get it cooled down.
Bamboo has such long fibres it may take longer to break down.
Looking forward to seeing the new videos especially Jordan. Neighbours are from there, have family still there.
More permaculture videos every year now, so hopefully people will stop using chemical inputs and go natural.
He was simply taking advantage of the free labor he was getting from those young people. If he had to do it himself there's no way he would turn that compost more than once or twice the entire year, if he turns them at all!
This is brilliant! 😊
Thanks for the back tips.
I always come back to the composting stuff, Geoff. I found your videos back in the day because I looked at a lot of composting videos, and I have this nostalgic Geoffposting enjoyment when you put them out. Thanks!
Exelente ese compost!!!
Loving the apple watch. So natural
Very nicely presented and made it easier to understand.
Thanks
great job guys, tried this on my allotment a few years ago, and it worked well. Geoff looking forward to your next lot of videos. Chris D
The best fast soil creation.i really do love your work Geoff .thanks for this Knowledge ♥️
I'm looking forward to meeting you in September.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. 🌱
This is also a great workout!
Master at work
The process of making compost is very good, thank you for sharing your knowledge. always success bro
It is a miracle to me how this works, getting beautiful compost from waste! Great 😊
Soil farmers, 🥰 I'm related to people who live this way
Do you grow anything? 🤩.
Never lose the wonder of it all.
One of the chicken farms down the road will have a fan cage cover you could probably grab from them, Geoff.
Great for sifting stuff 😊
I love compost making ❤❤❤❤
Thank you thank you so much 😍 you just saved my back from a lot of pain. I've been doing it wrong the whole time. Thank you for this valuable tip!
Thanks for showing levering to stand up straight to save your back.
Liked the agri-yoga technic. Please adopt me, I wanna live and work there😊 love learning by doing.
Thank you.
You are brilliant Mr Lawton. I've been trying to establish compost to upskill the soil in my garden. I have a lot more knowledge thanks to your sharing. We can all green the planet if we learn your techniques.
very cool, we use the berkley method with an 8 bay compost station made from bamboo and get about a cubic yard/meter every other day or so.
Looking forward to your next few videos. The back tips are gonna come in handy when I start my swales. Keep up the great work, its always a pleasure hearing from you
Thanks Geoff and crew for providing the production of *the most valuable* knowledge and material. Life works!
Cool 😊!. Thanks
I wish you consider going to Ethiopia. This will be the most valuable learning experience and teaching.
Thank you
Thank you!!
Thank you for this. Permaculture is key to world peace, environmental, climate stability, justice, and more... It's the whole holistic bag!
Thanks for showing us. I watched and read everything I could find on hot composting and there was a bunch of conflicting information. I think I got a hang of monitoring the ratios and moisture. Without cover my pile stays at 50C flat. With cover on it goes above 70, but it needs daily turning, because the oxygen does not replete well. Without cover I might have to add more nitrogen and I definitely have to water more frequently, but can get away with turning it much less often. Tarp on is probably the fastest, if you're not lazy.
Of course, the bulk and available surface area of the materials is also a factor. I didn't shred anything in my pile. Dumped whole 2 meter high red root Amaranths and other weeds, old straw, bad vegetables and different kinds of manure as they were. Took longer for it to take off and I got it both too dry and too soggy in the beginning. Easy guess it was also incredibly hard to turn first few times.
i will have to do small piles and sit down to turn i guess. can barely walk due to a massive stroke but am determined to try. looking forward to it.
Looking forward to more like this; especially when recipes go a little cattywampus
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently live through a drought
That's gorgeous ... amazing. Black gold in ten days. Geoffy-poo, should the universe support the wishes that circumnavigate this consciousness that surrounds this presnce, this mass of presence wull fall into your wake, humble its self at your feet, learn and plead to the planet for the health you give it. There is no better effort here now.
Ассаламулаейкум, Джефф мырза, сіздің видеоларыңызды көре келе табиғатқа деген көзқарас өзгере бастады, яғни таза табиғи өнім алуға деген талпыныс, мүмкіндік бар екеніне көз жетті,рахмет. Әрі қарай да бізді осындай танымдық видеоларыңызды сала берулеріңізге тілектеспін, құрметтпен Қазақ баласы Нұрқасым, Қазақстан,Атырау қаласы.
Cheers legend
Thank you very much l gained a lot❤
Dog: “ Hey what are you doing with that chicken?”
Lol😂 thought it was only me with that ring tone!
Glad to see Geoff still chucking dead animals in his compost piles 😂 I have composted a number of questionable things over the years, thanks to Geoff's example! Nature isn't picky. I always hear his words reminding me that the soil is an animal that's all mouth.
Kedi ve köpek benzeri de olabilir mi
Compost your enemies 🫢
Butifull compost, great video,
Hi👍🏻🤠 I love Geoff and compost.
@@nickthegardener.1120 besides the gardener I think compost is the most important thing in the garden. Geof is certainly an inspirational pioneer in the permaculture and re greening the desert. 🌱🌿🌴🍃🍂🍓🌽🥬🍅
Very much appreciate you showing how to make the compost just a bit faster than the 18 days. Thank you also for an easier on the back way to turn the pile.
When it warms here and can work outdoors more without mounds of snow I am looking forward to getting going on my compost.
A lot of travel and wonderful work to do. And wow Hungary too. Look forward to you sharing.
The color has really darkened up.
Do you let the manure sit for awhile before using or is it not necessary?
Look forward to seeing what your growing when you get back.
I wonder if may need to amend the soil more frequently with the geoengineering and aluminum and barium chemical sprays in the air.
Algerian's government reviewed green wall project, but this time they use fruit trees and productive plants, it will be interesting if we see a touch of permaculture in it , just thought you might like to have contact gov and offer your service,I would really like to see this project see the light:))
Manual handling training always welcome
I dont have international muscles helping me, but i do have a local brush turkey trying to help me.
😂
I that but slow cook as a big mount for one guy to turn takes a few day to recover after.
But yes quick you turn with hi nitrogem will give fast compost. ❤
Southern utah is devoting funds to wildfire management. I would love to have you as a consultant in our area for this purpose, sir. Thank you for your work and teachings. ❤️🔥
You should look into the UA-cam videos about Jean Pain. He was a French forrest warden who made compost from the cleared brush to prevent wildfire.
@@estebancorral5151 Just looked him up… thank you for the tip. Actually he was born in Switzerland, but somehow was also French. 🇫🇷🇨🇭
@@louisegogel7973 At one time he raised goats, and won a prize for making goat cheese. Hot water definitely comes in handy when making any type of cheese. Another use for the hot water would be making dehydrators. To dehydrate agricultural products i.e. tomatoes, mushrooms, mangos, coffee, cacao, etc.
That bloke simply couldn't look more Argentinian with that Maradona hair 😅Classic.
Nice trick with long handle tools is to use the thigh as a pivot point. I just had an idea to make a barrel type Johnson Su bioreactor type composter on it's side. Well most of you have seen the nifty little barrel composters that you can turn over, nice gimmick but a bit on the small side. How about making a giant barrel composter so it is able to hold a decent amount of bulk. I might have to give this a go.
Let us know how it turns… out.
The circle of life, with a little help from humans. Thank you for this informative fast mulching concept.
The dog is so good, it hasnt tried to dig up the composted chicken!
Hey speaking of wood fired cook/heat stoves, what do you do with the ashes? Does it depend on what the wood is? Around here l loved to use big leaf maple or fruit tree wood.
Hi Geoff, thanks for all your amazing work. Re the chicken you threw in, I always thought meat products were a big no no in compost? I mean, it clearly broke down quickly so presumably it's all good. Does that mean throwing in cooked meat would also be fine? And would you keep it to a minimum in any case? Thanks heaps!
Gee you can really see the difference in the work rate of the guy who has been doing this for decades and the new guys
New young guys at that... Just legend!
Question: Could you sift it, use the finer compost in the garden and/or pots, and reserve the chunkier bits as a "starter" or inoculant for the next pile? Would there be a benefit to that?
I was wondering if the wood scraps that remain are soaking up the rich ooze of the mixture to be awesome reservoirs of long term fertility and housing for the all important soil critters.
What about adding Biochar to the pile? Is this a good stage to get Biochar into the garden?
I go peep peep in my compost pile almost every morning.
Is there a way to compost in the desert? Water is a high premium here and not alot can be allotted to compost.
Vamoo Juancito de Argentinaa
Hungary? That’s around the corner! Is there any possibility to join you there? 🤩🙏🏻
Looks like it’s starting to work. Little more water would be good. Maybe some green or manure.
My compost was so quick that it run out of my beds.
Just gonna go away and be a legend, thought ya'd like to know
yayyyy
What temperature do the compost get to please 😊
I was teached that compost (or even organic fertilizers) would take some time (months to years), after put in the soil, so it decompose enough by the soil organisms, and its nutrients can be utilized by plants.
Can its effects be so fast? Or the fast results are not about nutrients and more about the mulch effect (lower temperatures, more water retention...)?
yes, compost tea, liquid fish or kelp fertilizer are used by organic growers for fast absorption by plants.
Afaik, fast compost is more bacteria dominated, so for annuals. While slow compost can be fungal dominated, so for perennials or trees.
@@CIB8282 compost tea have no nutrient, right? Maybe a bit of nitrogen if one use lots of melaco...its about boosting bacteria, right?
@@antoniomatos1980 yes, the added bacteria do most of the work but you may get some trace minerals based on what you add
@@CIB8282 can you provide some kind of link to scientific studies showing what kind of bacteria are being brewed in the composteas (diferent recepies), and how many and what type end up being add to the soil, and what effect they have on that soil (s), relating to avaiability of nutrients to plants, and plant grow? Have been searching for this for ages and didnt found anything credible and unbiased so far. Had agronomous friend tell me this is amateur witchcraft!?!Tanks.
Je me disais justement que je manquais de compost pour cette saison. Je n' ai plus qu à m y mettre. Est il nécessaire que le tas soit si gros? Merci pour tout!
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I didn't know that you could make compost with that much woodchip!
Probably works because of all the organic manure and inoculum. Don’t forget Geoff is a wizard too.
Forgot a barrel of woodchips outside and they turned to pure compost in only a few months.
@@merrickb9559 😁Did you see those threads he wore day 2? Looked like some fancy Chef's diggs, lol
@@Reyajh ❤️😊
@@strauchdieb7628 I wanna hear more!😮
What type of wood 🪵?
How chippy?
What's your location, weather, climate rainfall and other 'environmental' factors for the situation?
I imagine it'd take more than a few months for that to decompose where I stay (but I'm also starting an experiment to see for myself! One pile on soil, another on hardscape,🤞🏼👍🏼), so any elaboration/clarification would be sincerely appreciated 🙏🏼🌈🕊️
Sorry Geoff, not sure about this one... It's a lot of work and time for a small compost pile. I mixed my compost and my chickens. They do the rest. Going in it with the rotoroller once in a while... I was wondering: If I'm not that much on a hurry for my compost to be ready and I need much more, is it still important to mix it everyday? Or once every week or more would do? As the years goes by on the farm, I tend to delegate as much as possible. In my mind, if you find an animal that can eat the job you don't want to do, they're gona be your best employee. They stop just for sleeping. It's not all, you can eat them just before winter. Even as good as they seem to be, don't try that with Ian and Juan...
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I’d like to understand this more. Do you mean you mix the brown, green, compost and let the chickens scratch it or you put dead chickens in it?
@@jasminechatelain3 chickens mix it. If you want that they work even harder, you make little hills on top. They switch 2nd gear until all is leveled. But mostly I have around 20 chickens scratching all day long and I put all my stuff in the compost as I get it. Once in a while, I mix it with the rotoroller for air to go down and insects to go up. It make me at least a ton of compost a year and tasty eggs. You just have to make the effort to move the pile to the garden. Working on that...
@@genevievegrondin2378 amazing! i guess maybe you could put your compost materials closer to your garden so there's not as much transferring to do?
@@jasminechatelain3 This summer I'm redo it so that the sides panels can be open I will just trow it with the shovel in the garden when it's ready. we'll see next year if it work well...
Looks like that wants to be rested.
I don't have much space in the city backyard so I bought some large plastic can, made holes all over and use it to pile in kitchen scraps. Any ideas how I can make it decompose faster? I don't really move it like these guys regularly. Maybe few days just use materials on bottom to come up, putting top materials down. But I see a lot of green bacteria decomposing and smells rotten food.
I have a question : Is it possible to ferment tea rose leaves with blackspot to where the virus gets destroyed so that I can reintroduce it as fertilizer? The standatd practice of thought is throw it away because it increases not reduces blackspot on new rose bushes. It seems to me there must be a way to keep their own leaves as imo the best choice fertilzer....Jeff?
I wonder if you can pre-compost the diseased leaves by including them in a bokashi system first before adding them into your compost pile, the anaerobic followed by aerobic composting might take care off the disease organisms?!?
I’m curious as to what you find out. As I understand, hot composting kills off a lot of microorganisms as is touted all the time but the thing that creates the heat in the first place is bacterial activity. By the nature of being viral, I would imagine it should die as it doesn’t have its living host. There is always an ideal temperature for hot composting, which I think is between 55 and 60 Celsius (?), could be wrong here. Too hot and the bacteria that’s doing the work composting starts to die as well. You can get a compost thermometer to test the temperature of yours. You might want to search Elaine Cunningham’s work to see if she has an answer there. She is known for her work in soil micro biology.
@@yewsengcheong1637 thanks.
Your green and brown material appear not freshly cut, so how long have they been sitting there before being used?
In Australia they add clay to sandy soils with compost to create a loamy perfect soil I find very interesting
Cool! Any particular ratio?
1/3 each
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I can just see me turning a 1.5 meter pile when I'm 5 feet tall. I think I will take a bit longer. LOL I do have a "few" thousand dead leaves, after this winter, which doesn't want to go away. Last huge pile of snow: this week. Lucky this one is mostly melted. Have just about every thing (no dead chicken), better start collecting my pee. LOL
Lawn mower mulching those leaves up would be helpful! Along with your pee… lol. good luck. Last frost of the season in Southern Vermont this morning… I think.
@@louisegogel7973 Good luck, I'm typing while wearing a winter hoody, over my pajamas and trembling. I'm indoors, so it's not the cold wind outside. Longest winter that I can remember in Minnesota, must be all that Global Warming.
Nothing's more juicier than hot compost
Doesn't the compost need to cure and cool? Surely you can't use it hot?
As a guy with limited manpower and time, I find this style of composting where it needs to be turned everyday, very tedious and time consuming. While I agree it's a great way to compost fast, it takes too much of my time and effort. Would it be okay to do the turn over once a week? Would it still be effective?
Slower but effective for sure!
I don't understand how the 14-21 day compost works and is safe/effective when other compost takes 6 months to mature? Can somebody explain this to me?
Is there a ratio of brown, green and manure to start with?
one third each
Mate I live in Australia, but where you live looks more like the Congo, you must live up near the Daintree or something.
21:30 start from here, enjoy!
I notice some young people doing heavy outdoor work in flip flops or crocs. Do you have any thoughts about that?
How do you turn a heap that big when it’s not in a bin.
What country is it? In terms od climate
Australia
was just waiting for old mate in the sandals to poke a few holes in his foot