compost palette....needs more browns

its a nerdy gardeners joke ok?  this compost pile, while totally admirable, needs more carbon e.g. leaves, straw, sticks, bark, or as gardeners call them, 'browns'

compost pile

compost pile update .....collards, confetti and flowers from the ultimate Bombax tree

our compost pile at Residencia en la Tierra, Colombia

compost composition

cherish the process...the every day beauty of composting...

mango and frangi pani compost

compost compositions and friends

vegetables...collecting the scraps...recycling...piles...transforming...biological magic...into more nourishment...black gold futures...
It's really quite elegant.

everyday compost compositions

biomass galore, key west, florida

give me some space, some worms, and with this key west biomass trash, i can make gold.

forever and ever

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dog fish monkey lover
sand dollar beetle compost oblong spectrum hover
and others

more on snails....

 

 
 

I found these snail shells in my friend Randesh's massive spread of a compost pile! It is exciting think about the interrelationship of snails, decomposition, organisms, slime, pheromones, mating, and the alchemy of compost....

oh, and it also a perk when your nail polish matches the bucket a banana tree is growing in.