Dos and Donts of Composting

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What are the essential things you should do, and what mistakes should you avoid at all costs when composting? Connect With Alyssa Brodsky: I am the web builder, creating a compost network at Food2Soil. Our farm Ranchito Milkyway is in Bonita, California. We are no-till, organic veggie farming and dabble in Korean natural farming, vermicomposting, etc. We also have a DIY nursery set up! Our CSA box is sold weekly with farm pick up and we included gleaned fruit from the area. Food2Soil Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you are composting, you're going through a lot of effort to put together a system that
0:18.4	eventually spits out some beautiful, beautiful organic matter for you to add back into your
0:22.6	garden.
0:23.6	But there are some things you can do and some things that you should not do to make sure
0:28.2	you actually get that product.
0:30.0	So Alyssa, if you had to pick, call it your number one thing you absolutely have to do
0:36.2	when composting.
0:38.0	What would that be?
0:39.0	Oh, that's a tough question, Kevin, but I will start that off, that answer off with
0:47.4	another analogy because I'm just a fan of them.
0:50.2	I heard this analogy when I was learning rice farming, and so I'm going to give it with
0:54.4	rice, and then apply that to compost, and then that will be the do, okay.
0:59.6	So rice is like humans, humans need food, rice needs food, that's compost and fertilizer.
1:11.2	Humans need water, rice needs water, and humans need love, and rice needs love.
1:18.0	The loves part of that is visiting, observing, tinging to it.
1:24.2	And so I can see that this works really well with compost as well.
1:27.2	Compost needs food, that's your material, compost needs water, that's super important,
1:31.6	and then compost needs love.
1:33.1	Compost needs you to go, compost needs you to keep visiting in it to make sure that it's
1:39.9	heating up or that the material hasn't dried out, that there isn't a pest getting in.
1:45.9	All of these things, the most important thing is to not just say, I'm just going to throw
1:49.8	my food scraps in the compost pile and then walk away.
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