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  @dnawormcastings3 күн бұрын

  Great video always 🇳🇿❤️

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  @TransformCompost10 сағат бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @MisterEcks3 күн бұрын

  magnificent speaking voice...

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  @insAneTunA4 күн бұрын

  Cheers! 👍

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  @jonathanfriedlander856322 күн бұрын

  It all sounds good ! But check out the revelations in Australia with the dispersal of ASBESTOS in composted products ! Impossible to remove all plastics and these products should not be allowed to find there way back into the human food chain .

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  @TransformCompost15 күн бұрын

  Thanks for sharing. Indeed a challenge and concern when including construction and demolition waste in the compost process.

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  @jonathanfriedlander856322 күн бұрын

  Excellent video, straightforward practical to the point no b/s 🇳🇿

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  @erichnagy121624 күн бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @jdawg183526 күн бұрын

  Thank you.

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  @insAneTunA26 күн бұрын

  Thank you for sharing. This test is very doable.

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  @dnawormcastings26 күн бұрын

  Great video 🇳🇿❤️

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  @denisrho1019Ай бұрын

  Great explanations with excellent photos!

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @denisrho1019Ай бұрын

  John Paul: Great comments as well as great explanations and nice photos ! What exactly is the initial biomass that you are composting ? (leaves, branches, garden clips) I am impressed as I saw no foreing matters (plastics, etc.) I am curious to know... 20 pads to process 20 000 tons per y ... what is the main limiting factor to operate efficiently the proposed system ? Is it the initial blending step (300 t/d) that prevents you to blend and spread the biomass onto the pads or is it the TIME of the year you collect the biomass to be composted ? Or is the collection strategy adopted by the city ? ... Denis, from Montréal, Qc, Canada

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  @TransformCompost25 күн бұрын

  Thanks for your comments/questions. The material being composted is the source separated organics from the City of Edmonton. It goes through some preprocessing at the City before it comes to the facility. The material varies from mostly food waste during the winter and mostly grass and food in the spring/early summer, and leaves and food during the fall. One of the limiting factors is loader operation.

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  @abukamal8917Ай бұрын

  Thank you, John, for creating and sharing such useful videos related to composting. For day-to-day operations, I concur that Solvita and Dewar Tests for the compost maturity are practical given the financial constraints of a small community/producer. However, for industrial or municipal composting, I would recommend the O2 uptake or CO2 evolution tests whenever there is a change in their composting recipe, or to cross-check sometimes the results of the Solvita/Dewar test with the O2 uptake/CO2 evolution tests. All you did was great!! I look forward to watching the video on the self-heating test. It was a pleasure working with you. Thank you very much for providing me with that opportunity. I look forward to working with you in the area of biodegradability/composability of bioplastics in Saskatchewan.

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Hi Abu, thank you for your kind words. I hope that your new job is going well! I really enjoyed working with you and meeting your family!

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  @user-rk1bf4eh2pАй бұрын

  So we are regulating compost now

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  @dnawormcastingsАй бұрын

  Great video as always 🇳🇿❤️

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  @CultivationCultureАй бұрын

  Thank you for sharing friend. I look forward to trying both methods.

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @sanatanarАй бұрын

  Am dead sure you are not using tags while uploading videos. If you did your viewership and subsciber counts bot would have gone up significantly. I think you are just uploading and then giving the title.

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  @racebiketunerАй бұрын

  Thanks again. Looking forward to more on the self heating test.

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  @kevinj.wilson3669Ай бұрын

  Thank you I would welcome the opportunity to chat about a simple method we can use in Mali, West Africa, to test compost for maturity. Distilled down to basic principles. Thanks

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks - I have been working on this for a few years, details to come within the month!

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  @insAneTunAАй бұрын

  Thanks for sharing, very useful. 👍

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @AdekoyaOluwadamilareАй бұрын

  This is awesome👍👍👍

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @pranavvaidya3634Ай бұрын

  Ok how to compost stabilized dry grinded kitchen and garden waste. Adding microbes converts dried food/garden waste into compost? If yes which microbes.

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Composting dried and ground kitchen waste is not as simple as just wetting it up and turning it. Its best mixed with yard waste or wood chips at about 10-20%. I used 10% dried food waste with 90% screened yard waste and added water to make a mix with 60% moisture, and an air-filled porosity of 450 kg/m3. The yard waste adds the microbes and the porosity, and the food waste adds the energy!

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  @kellinachbar1962Ай бұрын

  John Paul I got some organic commercial compost like this and spread 2" over my garden rows. I have drip tape watering and neither that nor surface watering wets this compost well. My seeds aren't germinating!! Any advice? Thank you.

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks for your question. If the seeds are planted in the soil underneath the compost, they may be a bit deep, its best to remove the compost from around where the seeds are. Its not recommended to put seeds directly in the compost layer, as the electrical conductivity in soome composts may be high.

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  @pranavvaidya3634Ай бұрын

  V true and less people know it.

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Indeed, so much to learn!

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  @pranavvaidya3634Ай бұрын

  Interesting

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  @TransformCompostАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @maxpain71972 ай бұрын

  Thought you should use distilled water

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  Yes, its great to use distilled water if available. It also depends on the quality of water available.

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  @Dragonmother522 ай бұрын

  I teach Horticulture, and your videos are super! Thank you so much!

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  You are welcome!

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  @HitTheDirt2 ай бұрын

  I found your videos by searching compost too dry. I am subscribing and liking hopefully more people will find you a different way! I will be adding another video to my interesting by others playlist which is a library for gardening information. Thanks!

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  You are welcome!

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  @WigglyWooTH2 ай бұрын

  Greetings from south east Asia. Thank you so much for making these videos so scientific and evidence-based. There are many videos about composting out there that provide simple principles, techniques, and tips from experience but not many explained the science behind it in such a compelling way that you did. I have watched a few videos of yours and wish that I have found them earlier. 😂 Can’t promise I won’t aerate just to feel like optimizing is done, but I will fight the urge

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  You are welcome - so happy to hear the videos are helpful!

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  @grantandre792 ай бұрын

  This is a great video intro but I wish there was more information shared. Some questions: What is the "cleanliness" of the final output (eg: 99% plastics free, or completely clean) of the Compost Liberator? What is the process used to seperate plastics (especially micro-plastics) from food waste? Where can we follow-up to learn more?

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  you are welcome to check out more information at www.borealcompost.ca

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  @Paul-nq5tn2 ай бұрын

  In the UK we have windrows 15ft they still compost you should try leaving the compost longer between turning we do every 9 weeks

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  Thanks Paul. I understand that over time the temperatures and oxygen will increase. Because of the cost of composting real estate in a high rainfall climate, my goal is to obtain mature compost in a maximum of 4 weeks. I don't have the luxury of waiting 9 weeks!

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  @Wisald2 ай бұрын

  Buying compost is such a lottery, I'm glad I no longer need to after I started making my own.

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  @APerchOfPillows2 ай бұрын

  Thank you too

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  @billiebruv2 ай бұрын

  Wouldn't this be illeagal, if it has not gone through a thermfilic phase in your country

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  Ah, here is the interesting part. We assume that high temperatures kill fecal coliform, and they will not regrow. This has proven to be incorrect. you are welcome to look up a term called VBNC - Viable But Not Culturable. It seems like some of these microbes "wake up" again when conditions are more favorable. The second crucial part of eliminating fecal coliform and E. coli during a composting process is to compost long enough to decompose all the readily available carbon - which is what fecal coliform require. It is well documented that mature composts will be much less likely to contain fecal coliform.

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  @billiebruv2 ай бұрын

  @@TransformCompost ok, so it is now called thermotolerant coliform. a faculative anerobe. Interesting. I only source O.M from my own property, no chance of contamination.

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  @bsod56082 ай бұрын

  I can accept stable, but not mature compost. But i would not pay anything for immature compost...

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  @curiousbystander91932 ай бұрын

  not mature and immature are synonymous....?

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  @bsod56082 ай бұрын

  @@curiousbystander9193 i dont pay for immature compost. But I accept it, if it gets delivered home for free. For instance a nearby stable deliver horse manure for free.

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  immature compost can add nutrients and organic matter for agricultural soils, the concern is the potential high levels of fecal coliform and E. coli that survive the high temperature and feed on the remaining readily available carbon

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  @curiousbystander91932 ай бұрын

  @@TransformCompost question, are folks who put a layer of leves on their garden each fall robbing the spring seedlings of nutrients?.....My brother does this, like 2 inches in the fall, and I maintain there's a better way.

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  @racebiketuner2 ай бұрын

  Great point!

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  @insAneTunA2 ай бұрын

  Well, I changed my setup. I think that my pond air pump and the setup that I was using is not sufficient enough to make a real difference and to make it worth to pay for the energy. I had turned it of and I did not notice any difference. A larger pile with a larger blower fan would be better, but I can't do that here in my urban setting. I might revisit the concept at a later stage. Maybe that it will work better with different pipes that cover the footprint from the pile a bit better and that have larger holes, or something like that. What I was using now was not intended to be used for this purpose. So for now I have put my pile on top of pallet, and instead of a conical shaped pile I stacked my pile straight up, and I created some holes in the pile so that air can flow from the bottom to the top. I also added some more bio mass, but I think that my nitrogen and carbon ratio is still not optimal, at least not for the ambient temperatures that we have right now. I think that the pile has too much carbon, but during the summer I can collect and add more nitrogen rich material to the pile, so that is what I am going to do. However, it is not all bad because there is a composting process happening because the pile does reach 25C, and the pile is also packed with worms. So at the bare minimum I will get good vermicompost. But I realize that I need to be patience and that eventually the fungi will complete the composting process. And the pile even might start the hot composting process after all as soon as the weather gets substantial warmer and when I have added some more nitrogen rich material. This weekend the temperatures go up substantially for a couple of days, Saturday the temperature might even reach 25C, so I am curious to see what that is going to do with the temperature inside the pile. I will post updates on my channel if something noteworthy changes.

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  @TransformCompost2 ай бұрын

  The worms flourishing is fantastic - it suggests also that the moisture is likely higher than 70%, which makes hot composting a bit more complicated. The worms will make great compost for you!

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  @insAneTunA2 ай бұрын

  @@TransformCompostThank you for your reply. It might be a bit too wet indeed. I will let it evaporate some moisture and see what happens. And if the worms beat the bacteria and fungi it is also good. 👍

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  @dnawormcastings2 ай бұрын

  Great video as always thanks for sharing your knowledge🇳🇿

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  @curiousbystander91932 ай бұрын

  I've run into this making leaf mold soil, rushing using last year's ground leaves the next june. When I grind leaves in the fall, if it's a warm fall and I can get 1 strong hot cycle and 1 warm cycle, plus another turn of the pile, the next spring I can screen that pile and let it sit for another month, then it's usable as stable and mature in june........ but, if I don;t get enough turns of the pile in and get that last screening in april done early, that pile can;t be used until July. It really needs the 1.5 months in april/may to go hot/warm again.... or, I'll end up with stable leaf mold soil, not mature.....stable, but immature leaf mold in a 100 gallon pot can run a bit hot again, causing some stress on baby plants and seedlings, where as mature leaf soil will not produce any such outcomes....... Anyhow, you must grind your leaves, make the pile at least 3 cubic yards, and get 3 turns (covering on after the 3rd) in before winter for success by next june.... it's damn near impossible to get fall leaves viable for next spring, when used as the sole soil medium for growing (like a peat moss or coco, but much, much better). This all only applies to northern latitudes, as it's easy to keep microbial activity in southern leaf mold or compost piles throughout the winter. I think there are also leachates coming of the leaf mold piles, like tannins and such, that plants really don;t like.....so you kinda have to leave the pile exposed to the elements some, rather than coveredall the time, as a way of moving those tannins and such off the pile when it rains (or you have to water the pile occasionally). WHen you soak an oak leaf, some remarkable stuff leaches into the water. I am pretty sure some of that needs time and composting for viable leaf mold soil. It appears you can grow just about anything with deep, mature leaf mold soil beds......add aerated compost tea feeding if you want stellar plant health and production.

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  @bsod56082 ай бұрын

  I just wait another year. The leaf mold pile from the fall of 2022, is really good looking now. The leaf mold compost from the fall of 2023 will probably be finished in august, since i have not turned it enough. But I will probably not use it until spring 2025.

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  @curiousbystander91932 ай бұрын

  @@bsod5608 yeah, if you can get ahead of things, it's nice... but what I described above is for trying to get fall leaves usable the next june in northern climates....stable and mature..... I make about 15 yards a year.... some being aged wood chip/bark medium. what do you grow with your leaf mold soil?

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  @cameronornelas1423 ай бұрын

  Great video!!!! Can you send me some info on the aerated compost system. I'm interested in using it at my four compost facilities in California. Hope to here from you. Thanks

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Thanks Cameron! Will contact you soon.

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  @krazyinthekootenay7123 ай бұрын

  I find it funny that you in this video had to go educate the individual involved in this. As you said Creston which I used to live at now has to figure other things out. Yet their given a huge government grant to start it with... Sounds a little fishy to me

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Yes, the grant covered some of the infrastructure. The situation with plastics is operational, and similar to what most communities are working with.

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  @racebiketuner3 ай бұрын

  Thanks again.

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Always welcome

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  @SuperTinker413 ай бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  You're welcome!

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  @denniskatinas3 ай бұрын

  Great topic, I’ll stick around. Thank you.

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  @dnawormcastings3 ай бұрын

  Great information on composting 🇳🇿

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @compostjohn3 ай бұрын

  Excellent and valuable information, thank you.

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Thank you for your kind words!

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  @insAneTunA3 ай бұрын

  Thank you for sharing. Soon there will be an update on my small experiment.

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  @udin-untungdurian87843 ай бұрын

  👏

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  @racebiketuner4 ай бұрын

  Thanks for another great vid. I'm making compost on a much smaller scale. I keep 11-12 yards in process.. I'm very selective about my inputs and still have to spend a lot of time removing plastic. It's easy to pick out red and blue pieces, but small black pieces are very hard to identify. I've done a little experimenting and found it takes five screenings to remove most of it. I understand that's not practical to do on a larges scale. Hopefully better and more affordable commercial removal systems will be available in the near future.

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  @TransformCompost4 ай бұрын

  Indeed, thanks for sharing!

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  @racebiketuner4 ай бұрын

  Very cool!

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  @matthewball25174 ай бұрын

  Hi John Paul. Thank you for your series of videos. In your asp example (2:10): after mixing and adding moisture at 2 weeks, did you put the mix back on air for the remaining 3 weeks before achieving stability?

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  @TransformCompost4 ай бұрын

  Yes, we did. We will consider stability and maturity in the upcoming videos.

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  @matthewball25173 ай бұрын

  Thank you. It must be an intensive mixing process to rewet a pile that dry. Do you do that in the compost mixer?@@TransformCompost

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  @TransformCompost3 ай бұрын

  Yes, its not easy to rewet a dry compost pile. I find that the most efficient way is during a mixing process, either with a loader and a hose, or a turner if one can afford it! Yes, the mixer works as well, but its more work to put it all back through a mixer.