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Sunset Valley Organics—Conventional To Organic

March 16, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

As I have stated in previous posts, Corvallis (where I live) and the Willamette Valley of Oregon is a bread basket of farms producing large amounts of a wide variety of food. Just south of the Corvallis city limits is Sunset Valley Organics on the main highway going south to Eugene, Highway 99.
Organic production hasn’t [...]

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In A Few Short Years, Organic Has Become The Norm

March 10, 2010 Compost

It was just a few short years ago that organic gardeners and growers were looked upon as freaks of nature in the gardening world. Miracle-Gro, Roundup and Peters were the norm on the shelves of garden sheds in most places. Now, those products are kept out of sight and usually shunned at the garden center. [...]

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Compost Link To Scottish Legionnaire’s Cases

March 4, 2010 Compost

This story highlights why you should have compost tested so you know what organisms are in it. Detractors and critics of Aerated Compost Tea (ACT), criticize ACT and its supporters for its potential disease carrying properties but regular, run of the mill compost, if you don’t know what organisms are in it, are the real [...]

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Dead Fish Become Great Compost

March 1, 2010 Compost

Lauren Donovan writes in The Bismark Tribune,
Dead fish are contributing to some of the healthiest soil around and come warm weather, there’ll be more to sell.
Fish killed last winter in Dickinson’s (North Dakota) Patterson Lake are the main ingredient in a big batch of compost that’s breaking down into soil even during the winter months.
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The Business Of Food Waste Composting

February 24, 2010 Compost

Molly Farrell Tucker writes in BioCycle magazine,
Being the first at anything is almost always a challenge, and becoming Georgia’s first permitted commercial food waste composting facility was no exception. Greenco Environmental, which composts food waste, yard trimmings and wood at its 32-acre facility in Barnesville, Georgia, jumped through many hoops including finding an approved site, [...]

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Compost Strategies—What Bugs Do Your Plants Prefer?

February 23, 2010 Compost

As the weather starts to warm up in some parts of the country, people will be able to start making and using their own compost. The Sustainable Smallholding blog looks at creating your own compost with different plants in mind and whether they want a fungally or bacterial dominated soil. Click to read the rest [...]

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The Worm Inn

February 20, 2010 Compost

Worm composting, or vermicomposting, is usually done in hard plastic worm boxes in a garage, basement or if the weather is warm enough, outdoors. But a new product has been introduced that allows gardeners to have a worm composter right near the kitchen. It is perfect for people who live in condos, apartments or other [...]

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Human Hair Makes Good Fertilizer

January 21, 2010 Organics

Andrea Thompson writes in LiveScience.com,
All those snipped locks that are swept up after your haircut could be turned into crop fertilizer, researchers now say.
Previous studies had also shown that human hair discarded from barbershops and hair salons can also be a nutrient source for plants when combined with other compost materials. But it had not [...]

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Compost Gets A Java Jolt

January 18, 2010 Compost

Roy Jonsson writes in the North Shore News,
If you go behind any popular coffee house, you will find large plastic bags full of coffee grounds.
Coffee companies have to pay to have this waste product hauled to the nearest compost facility. The bags are generally free for the taking and have become sought after by some [...]

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N.C. Neighbors Divided Over Commercial Composting

January 8, 2010 Compost

I would hazard a guess that this commercial composting operation is not making their compost properly which is drawing their neighbors ire. If you don’t turn the compost enough while it is decomposing, it will smell “rotten” because the materials is rotting and cause complaints from neighbors. Even the smallest of backyard compost piles can [...]

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