Composting Tips - Three Different Ways to Make Compost with Dr. Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web
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Dr. Elaine Ingham discusses 3 different ways to compost in this interview with Natalie Forstbauer, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Heart and Soil Magazine.
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I've been making my own compost for 15 years. I've only just learned about Dr. Elaine Ingham. She is totally awesome. Thanks for the upload.
I dont know if she is totally awesome. She is 95% awesome though for sure! :-)
I agree. She is amazing!
are you still around buffalopatriot? do you have some tips of your own? :D?
What a cool old lady.
Elaine your my favorite 😍
Wonderful interview that explains composting in laymans terms. Thank you for your video!
I'm getting "compost certified" next week ! Hurray !!
In France we have certification for about anything. A good side of it is, that should allow me to plan composting strategies for local comunities.
Thanks for the great video !
Je ne savais pas que je pouvais avoir une certification comme ça ici à la France. J'habite à Pas de Calais, our peux-je obtenir l'information ? Merci beaucoup.
@@chubbygardener l'organisme de formation par lequel je passe est "au ras du sol" en Dordogne.
Il y a deux niveaux de formation : guide composteur et maitre composteur.
Tu peux contacter l'asso au ras du sol et leur demander s'il y a des formations plus proches de chez toi.
@@gaelkellerson893 Merci beaucoup
We also have a master composter certification in the US. Offered for free by my local botanical garden-have to do 6 online courses, practicum and some volunteer hours. I can’t wait to do it, but the courses are full and I have to wait a few months. They also provide building help, browns, etc. (I live in a big city) I hope many places are doing it, it’s a great idea and apparently it has a lot of demand.
Thanks Dr Elaine for that wonderfull overview of the three different types of aerobic composts. My primary take away from this talk was to learn that finished compost is at room temperature and not that's which is steaming hot. The word of caution about a vermicompost bin getting infested with flies was equally important as i have dealt with those horrible maggot filled bins in the past.
I laid compost whenever felt like it and added huge pile of twigs and leaves. All of it composted down and the soil is great. Grew butternut squash horribly late all by itself
I've bought a compost thermometer and it's fascinating! The centre heats up slowly and then, I'm gonna have to turn it all inside out and upside down!
Love her videos, and I can also confirm how hard it is to find good quality compost in Los Angeles.
My mind was blown when I realized, me dressing the tops of my compost piles with hay, leaves or dry grass, is a bit of a take on the static compost pile capturing those off-gasses
Thanks for sharing
That covers it all. Wow
Thanks you Dr. For knowing compost tea ❤❤❤
Thank you Dr. Elaine Ingham that was awesome I learned a lot from that. And thanks to Heart and Soil magazine.
Great video thanks
Very interesting thank you
Absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Newly subscriber here from the philippines
We struggled with our garden. We always bought the most expensive compost. This year we made our owe. The difference is staggering. We did a 30 day trial and recorded it. Will never buy compost again
My gardens were struggling with bought compost. Then I added my compost and things took off.
That's awesome! Bravo, we are celebrating this huge success with you. Isn't composting amazing!
Same experience here
@@grahamthomas411 yes we trialed shelling peas. Worked great!! Again we recorded it if you wanna check it out. We'll probably ammend it with some Vermiculite and and coco core to make it even better in our spring sowings
@@grahamthomas411 We do now!
Hi.. thanks for the info you made it simple. My question is: Is it possible to mix different compostings methods in one batch ?
Hi. I am from South Africa and I am following your program on how to make compost.
I have 50% of shale stones in my yard and I want to plant in that area by using compost. Can you please direct me is to what do I do with the compost and shale stone?
It is always a blessing hearing you teach, I have a question pls. You made mention of 1ton of compost for an acre, is it applicable for any kind of crop or plants?
Idah, from what I understand from studying with her this is a generalization and a good place to start. You can also sue less compost by making compost tea.
Happy Composting!
Natalie
Use whatever local resources are Available
I saw a worm ‘basket’ intended to be dug into the interior of a raised bed. Worm food (kitchen scraps) goes in and is replenished regularly. Sounds easy but anaerobic. Thoughts?
Hello, I'd like to subscribe to the magazine H&S, but I'm in México. Do you have a digital version?
Thanks for asking! You can go here to get a subscription: magsfast.com/Magazines/Heart-and-Soil/Latest. You will be able to read it on your computer, and download the app for your phone and/or tablet.
Make yourself an amazing day!
With heart and soil,
Natalie
I saw they used old break mixt with kitchen waste as compost, if I have Donuts can I do the same as bread but Donuts Cook in oil. I waiting to hear from you, thanks.
Wonderful video, question what about time? Example Compost that is over four months old or even a year old
Logan, that's a great question. You would be talking a static pile then. It's always helpful to have a microscope to look at what is in the compost, or send it in for a Soil Food Web analysis if you want to see what's in the compost.
I am wondering, are the pathogens primarily, or exclusively, coming from the manure component? If I am using all plant based materials is it that relevant?
A wonderful video and I have learned so much from Dr. Ingham. I have a question that perhaps she or other viewers could help me with~ I create a large, residential leaf pile made up of mainly shredded oak leaves that's about 4 feet high and 12 feet wide when first fluffed. Will I have success simply turning several thousand red wigglers loose in it? My goal is to break it down, enrich it with castings, and turn it seldom. Will the shredded leaves go anaerobic without constant turning? Will the red wigglers like this size environment? Would be most grateful for any comments. Thank you.
Oak leaf will take a lot of time. It would be easier to use an "area-compost- approach. Instead of a big pile with compost worm vax, you could (if available) use a bigger area, for example a vegetable bed and let it rot and decompose over winter. Still, it will not be composed fully in may. Leafes only, oak/walnut will take time and result in low quality compost
Fungus grows very well on oak for some reason hence shrooms lichens and those puff balls growing on them. That being said, 1/3 grass clippings (which is your nitrogen ingredient) and 2/3 oak leaves (the carbon ingredient) mixed up well into a big pile makes AMAZING leaf mold and can be used as potting soil in less than 2 months. I've done it, but waiting longer I think is better. Within a few days the inside of this leaf mold pile will be so inundated with fungal growth that it will be all white looking and will appear to have steam rising when you stir it. Thats mostly airborne mold spores. Avoid inhaling any of this powdery airborne pulmonary fungal infection vector, if you know what's good for ya. Happy composting!
@@flofi4397 don't ever use walnut
Im curious what people do for manure, and whether they manage to source it without chemicals or drugs. The requirements for cattle are quite numerous concerning vaccinations, antibiotics etc, the one person I know who has horses uses feed with anti-fly chemicals in it.
I guess static compost is cold compost, this is the compost i useually make, so far i have had good success with it, i just be careful to not add diease stricken materials, or suspect manures that may have dewormers or pesticides etc.. i add a diversity of clean materials. My piles all have a good population of compost worms red wiggilers and European night crawlers so between them helping break everything down and helping clean up the pile and me only putting materials that has no power meldew or botrytis, that is why the static method works good for me. I have added this compost and done comparisons to plants and vegetables grown with it and without it and it definitely increase growth rates and vitality of the things grown with it. I use about 25% hourse manuse, 15 kelp from beach ,15%weeds like clover, dandelion, yarrow, comfrey, 20% leafs, 15% ingredients are fruit and vegetable scraps from my garden and home remaining are saw dust, fine wood chips. I leave this mix 1 year before using in spring and mix material every couple weeks, im making this kind of compost for aprox 6 years now and has worked great for me. My pile is aprox 4 feet by 4 feet and gets about 3 1/2 feet high.
Sounds like you have a good handle on what works for you. Sourcing kelp from the beach is an amazing opportunity many of us don't have. Horse manure makes great compost! Powerful all the natural herbs you are adding too.
I have been making cold compost for years too. It’s fine if you are happy to wait. 🙂
Do you turn the pile at all within the first few days or weeks?
How high is the pile on the first day you make it?
Did you add water and cover it?
What climate are you in?
@Greig Henning the size of the pile avarages from about 4x4 feet and 2 to 3 feet high. I do turn the pile at least once a week at first and every second week about after a month or so. During winter wile we have snow and freezing temps the pile is not turned at all just left untill winter is over and the pile has unfrozen then I will turn it about every second week untill it's used early june. I'm in Newfoundland Canada. During dry periods I do ad some water to try to keep the pile moist, The pile rarely drys out though as it holds water well. I often start my pile around August and continue to ad materials untill about October. By June the pile is pretty much all rich compost. Turning the pile as well as the compost worms red wiggilers and European night crawlers are instrumental at braking down the the pile as fast as it breaks down. Generally a cold compost takes about a year minimum to fully compost. The worms really ad to the biology and the life and quality of end compost. The worms eat the materials and break it down in to immediate plant avaliable nutrients in there castings. So technically the end compost is a mixture of regular compost and worm castings. Super high quality stuff. Edit I do cover the pile with cardboard or big paper leaf bags. Also the worms are fine over winter many may die off but there cocoons are fine and hatch into baby worms when temps warm up again.
I am confused. Can I just buy it?
Q: Are worm bins recommended in zones that experience winter temperatures below freezing?
Great question! In those situations you would actually keep your worm bin in the house. Under your sink, in a closet or downstairs in the basement are some common solutions. Some people keep it at their back door when they use a worm bin like the Urban Worm Bin: heartandsoil.square.
@@HeartandSoil - I have one that is sunk into a raised bed (designed for that) but haven’t put any worms in it yet because I’m assuming they will perish when the temperature drops 👀.
Check out Rhonda Sherman she is probably knows more than anyone in the world about composting with worms
I put my worm bin in greenhouse last winter and put frost cover over it. My worms thrived. I also found red worms in my compost bins that Stay out which surprised me. My thought it was covered with snow and that is good insulator. This year I have worn towers in ground also and will see in spring what happens with worms.
I live in Canada and i have a few worm bins outside in thick plastic barrels, during winter i simply cover top with a layer of cardbord and about a foot of leafs, and some cardboard on top of leafs to keep then in place. Im no expert but the worms go dorment in winter and in spring everything goes back to full swing again just like worms in nature in cold climates. The cocoons are fine over winter and hatch soon as weather permits. I also have some bins in my house. I have compost worms in my compost also and when the snow goes they can be found in large numbers once again. So u just dont have to feed when everything freezes. I give the last feeding to the outdoor worm bins around December and begin feeding again around April.
Look up the Johnson-Su bioreactor, a great and simple way of static composting, and it is the best.
A quick overview of the easy way to make a Johnson-Su Bioreactor:
ua-cam.com/video/0WjBV9GuuvY/v-deo.html
Wwhhooaaa was that helpful or what!🌻
Yes it was! Thanks for stopping by our channel. Love your content, would love to connect!
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Natalie
@@HeartandSoil yyaassss chica let link up💯. Love your podcasts with some of the OG's in the game like Charles Dowding etc. Subbed!
I have store bought compost. Can I use it to make my own compost by adding it to my pile?
Yes
I would say yes.
She talks about her courses and such but there is no link or reference to that website.
Do you mean the Soil Food Web website and courses? Here is a link if that is helpful: soilfoodweb.ontraport.com/t?orid=433&opid=132
If you don't have money for testing how can you get testing? Any suggestions?
microbiometer
First off, great vid. Dr. Ingham is my freaking biology hero. But does anyone know why she never mentions the Berkley fast composting method, which gives you fresh compost in a month? That's the method I use here, which yields between four and six piles per year here in Ohio.
PS. You do need to cure finished Berkely compost before mixing it in the soil, BTW. Or just top-dress with it, and let it cure in place.
I stumbled across her a couple of months ago. I’m sold!
She values all the 3 main methods, and even supports vermi compost being at the top..I heard her reference it as being at the top of the list in another video.
But her preference is thermo because her method is scalable and fast (3 weeks). Vermi takes far too long and not scalable like her method is. There are loads of offshoots of various methods aside from just tossing it on the ground itself lol whatever works best for you I think is the takeaway. It'd take her forever to go over the various branded methods lol
Berkley Method is quick & dirty compost, particularly if it contains manure. The method was developed before the first big national ecoli outbreak.
It's been resurrected as a fad for people who don't have the time or patience to make compost wirh real value. Just do it right the first time.
@@flatsville9343 No animal manure needed for the Berkeley Method to work. I've been using it for years sans manure. I've used coffee grounds from a Starbucks instead for a high-nitrogen green, but most often just compost grass clippings, vegetable waste (apple cores, lettuce heats, rotting lettuce, etc.), and landscaping debris for greens.
Good night. Pode me mandar a receita do berkley compostagem rápida?
I have a great compost pile that unfortunately dried up. Did all the life that was present die or is it dormant?
How old is it? Is it composted, or partially composted? If it is fully composted, you could water it, and see how it is, or add it to a new compost pile.
Possibly, but it wouldn’t take much to fire it up again. Besides rehydrating the pile, add a bit of finished or half finished compost to get it going again. Some good garden soil or leaf litter or stable hay or similar would do the job too. In fact, I don’t think you would really need to add anything else. It would still work. It would just take longer to get going again.
This is a great video for sure. I have questions. We don't want to go anaerobic with our compost. I think the first two inches of soil is aerobic, but, where the roots are located, 6-10" below the soil line, is anaerobic. Is it not? The Orientals have been using anaerobic, putrefied fertilizers for hundreds of years without harm to their people. I used these anaerobic fertilizers along with microbial solutions made from potatoes, sea salt and leaf mold last year and I had wonderful results. I used aged, not composted chicken manure. I'm not saying there is not great value to Dr. Ingham's assertions. I'm saying is there possibly another way to attain the same results with a less expensive system?
Plant roots are obligate aerobes, root zones in general aren't anaerobic. A lot of human pathogens will live in anaerobic compost as well.
Do the browns have to be dry and the greens wet when adding?
The browns can be wet. You want to be wetting the pile as you make it anyway. Hope that helps!
How would something like a johnson su static pile setup take 2 years to learn how to setup/ use 'properly'?
A quick overview of the easy way to make a Johnson-Su Bioreactor:
ua-cam.com/video/0WjBV9GuuvY/v-deo.html
Com.. possed please 😀
Is there any benefit to composting in a ltiiiinnnny container for use in potted plants? Im talking like as small as an ice cream container -- which would not support hot composting
With worms yes.
what if we put all of our greens from our kichen into the earth will it be compost ;
Yes, it's called direct composting.
Yep trench composting
I've never heard Dr Ingham talking about Compost tea, doesn't she recommend Compost tea?
Yes, she does recommend compost tea. Just not in this segment.
Salmonella, Vibrio cholera, E. Coli, Tetanus, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, cryptosporidium, Streptococcus,Tuberculosis, any of these sound familiar? Using compost tea techniques is how you incubate them. Good luck!
I thought she really wanted to teach people regeneration gardening, and then I saw the course prices. Ouch. It makes me believe this is more about the money for her. The average person will never be able to afford prices at that rate. Oh well.
There are a lot of free youtube videos of her work you can search if that would be helpful?
Check out future cannabis project
They offer a wealth of free info
Elaine Ingham is on a few of their episodes.(good stuff even if you're not a smoker)
Naw. Check out talking shit with eagle. Real og. Fucknut cannabis pussies are all about the money.
There are lots of You Tube videos on the topic. I’m sure you would learn more from the course and have questions answered immediately, but we all have to work to our budgets. 🙂
If you do enough research on YT watching her videos you can just about learn it all. Eventually you will get to the point that you need a microscope if you dive deep enough.
131 for 3 days then turn #1. Or 150 for 2 days or 160 for 1 day.
She doesn't talk about when to turn the next few times and then when to let it sit and for how long. I know she said 21 days to get to ambient temperature...
Depends on how and what you compost. A jonson su bioreactor needs 12 to 18 month. A good hot pile 30 days, if the ambient temperature is high enough.
Depends also WHAT you want to reach. Is your target a compost as substrate for plants or a compost to regenerate degraded soil? Let it longer make it slower with more carbon for more fungi. More nitrogen is faster with more bacteria as result.
3:58 It's pretty close tho
Soil with 3-5% SOM is the best way to grow most crops. Life is too short to be wasting time messing with things that don't really make a difference!
Actively aerated compost tea will save the world! We need to convert all alcohol brewers to tea.... It's a dream
Think so huh lmao
Salmonella, Vibrio cholera, E. Coli, Tetanus, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, cryptosporidium, Streptococcus,Tuberculosis, any of these sound familiar? Using compost tea techniques is how you incubate them. Good luck!
Started composting last year mostly with food scraps, leaves, grass clippings stayed cold through most of the year. We had a terrible infestation of soldier flies and larvae 😬 I don’t want that to happen again this year.
There's nothing terrible about soldier flies, they digest everything very quickly, make the organic matter just right for earthworms, and the larvae and puppae make excellent food for chickens, ducks, pigs...
If you don't want soldier flies just mix in sawdust, woodchips, dry leaves... And cover your compost to keep out rain
Host is in a contest to see who can fit regenerate into a sentence the most times
The title: Three different ways to MAKE compost … is misleading. Dr. Ingham only mentioned 3 diff types, but did not fully explain the how to’s in making them. Wasted my time. Please fix your title.
Sounds like a scam
I learned nothing
This video is intended to sell a course simply put.👎
Se da muchas vueltas esta señora. Entiendo que es una de las mejores en el tema, pero al escucharla me aburre. Debería ser mas consisa.
Hello, should 1 ton of compost per acre be applied every year? Thank you