Static Pile Composting Methods – Epi-3712

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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There are many ways to make compost but they fall into three primary methods with many overlapping on some levels. But from a macro level almost all compost can be defined as being one of three methods… High Turn Thermophilic Composting – Regular turns, fast finish, what most people make Static Pile Composting – No turns, long duration, super high microbe product Macrofauna Composting – Using animals like worms, black solider fly etc. or even chickens/ducks Again there is over lap, for instance we intentionally add worms to Bioractors after the very short initial thermo cycle ends, but it is … Continue reading →

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0:20.0	And we are live with episode 3,712 of the survival podcast.
0:25.0	Rate on time for the announcement, once again later in the day than typical.
0:29.7	We're usually live by noon.
0:32.3	Yesterday we weren't live till 1,400 hours, Central Daylight time.
0:36.5	That's 2 o'clock for you civilian types.
0:38.4	And today, 1330, which would be 1.30 p.m. Central Daylight time.
0:43.1	So just some stuff going on around here that I'm trying to keep up with and trying to get some additional work done.
0:51.0	And that's just pushing the show a little bit later in the day.
0:52.9	And that may be good because while it might not be great for people who are really happy with it always being at noon it may open up the opportunity for some other people to actually be here and if you live to the west of me out toward those specific time zones and all it actually might move it a little later, and maybe for some
1:11.2	people more toward like their lunch break or something like that. So maybe it'll help some folks.
1:15.1	Maybe it'll hurt some folks. I'm doing my best, guys. What are we going to talk about today?
1:18.9	Static pile composting methods. Static pile composting is what I call the natural way to compost.
1:27.2	My favorite static pile method is bioreactor
1:30.5	composting, and we will talk about that some today. But there's other ways to do it. Basically,
1:35.5	all static pile means is we're not intentionally feeding animals. So we're not doing worm
1:40.3	compel composting or chicken tractor type composting or something like that.
1:47.5	And we're not going out there and manually turning it.
1:50.3	We're building a pile and we're leaving it alone.
1:53.9	This is how nature works.
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