Resources Tagged: Compost

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  1. Let it Rot: The Home Gardener's Guide to Composting

    Key Resource 1975-01-01 In 1975, Let it Rot! helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners everywhere how to recycle waste to create soil-nourishing compost. Contains advice for starting and maintaining a composting system, building bins, and using compost. Third Edition. Stop bagging leaves, grass, and...
    home gardening Soil Fertility Plant Nutrition Compost

  2. Making Compost in Three Weeks

    Compost is well known to be a good organic fertilizer and soil conditioner. It is a product derived from the decomposition of organic matter or agricultural wastes. In normal circumstances, it takes about four to five months to get compost from the composting process. However, a new technique of...
    Compost Asia

  3. SAWBO - Survival Gardening: How to Create Compost (3D) HHI

    Compost can be used to improve the quality of your soil. You can use plant materials, animal manure and kitchen scraps to create compost. Compost will add nutrients and organic matter to your soil. This animation explains the process of creating and storing compost. Scientific Animations Without...
    Gardening Compost SAWBO

  4. Income and Other Benefits from Using Worms to Make Compost

    2009-07-20 Worms can be a lucrative and,beneficial addition to a small-scale farming operation. Several times in recent issues of EDN we have mentioned the value of compost. Here we report on the rapid production of compost using worms. Worm-produced compost, also called vermicompost, can be used in gardens...
    Red Worm Compost Worms Vermiculture

  5. Production and Utilization of ‘Mukosaku’ in Organic and Natural Farming Practices.

    2018-02-08 Speaker Bio: Mr. Jeffrey Laruan is a local church Pastor and an organic farmer. He was born in July 5, 1953. He finished his Theology Degree at Nazarene Bible College. He grew up as a farmer and shifted to Organic Farming in 2005. His farm “Lily of the Valley Organic Farm” is accredited under ATI...
    Compost Organic Fertilizer Asia

  6. How to prepare compost in 3 weeks?

    2017-08-01 The decline or even loss of soil fertility is the major challenge faced by more and more farmers around the world in general and especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. Many causes, mainly anthropogenic, are at the origin of this situation. Despite the massive use of chemical fertilizers through...
    Compost Composting Garden Compost Soil Fertility Soil Health Restoration Land Restoration West Africa

  7. Worm Composting, University of Maine

    University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Marjorie Peronto discusses the benefits and best methods of worm composting. Excellent information on using worms to make good stuff for your garden.
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  8. Making great compost

    Vegetable crops thrive in healthy soil. Farmers can improve the quality of their soil and provide nutrients for their plants by making and adding compost to their fields or planting beds. In this video produced by the World Vegetable Center for the VINESA project, researcherEmanuel Pallangyo...
    Compost East Africa

  9. Maize Production with Manure- Amended Compost

    2021-01-01 Information from ECHO Network member Daryl Edwards from his work in Zimbabwe suggested that using quality compost containing 10% cow manure results in a maize harvest similar to that obtained with 100% cow manure. This could be significant to farmers who have small farm sizes and limited...
    Maize Compost Manure

  10. A Fresh Look at Life below the Surface

    2007-07-20 This article takes a fresh look at what is going on in the soil, especially in relation to soil organic matter and the organisms it supports; how this life in the soil is impacted by our land care practices; and how it in turn impacts the productivity of our farms.
    Soil Organic Matter Soil Microorganisms Nutrient Retention Nutrient Cycling Beneficial Microo... Earthworms Compost Soil Health Mychorrizal Conservation Agric... Conservation Farming Soil