COMPOSTING

Viviana Ramirez Luna grew up in Southwest Colombia surrounded by sugar cane crops. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology in Cali, Colombia, and a Master's degree in Environmental Science at Memorial University. She worked on small-scale fisheries, travelling to fishing communities on the Pacific coast of Colombia, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. Viviana lives in St. John's now and is one of the founders of the Aldershot Community Garden. She is also

David Goodyear from the Flatrock Homestead put together these videos on hot composting. In Part I, he discusses some of the science behind hot composting and how to do hot composting. Hot composting creates compost quickly compared to cold composting which translates to moving fertility to your garden quicker and increasing your yields now rather than later. In this part, David shows his hot composting method for our backyard vegetable production.

Some people believe that composting is too complicated, smells too bad, takes too much time to accomplish, and that it is overall a very messy affair. This is untrue, as it is in fact quite easy and quick to make your own compost if you know how to do it. Read more in this article.

Tom Bartels of Grow Food Well describes basic steps for effective composting in this half hour video.

Compost Is amazing! It's a wonderful byproduct of our backyard gardening cycle. Kitchen waste, food scraps, and yard trimmings are turned into a highly nutritious amendment while reducing our waste footprint by a third or more. But compost goes even further than that. This video looks at three additional benefits of adding compost to our soils. The fun just keeps going!

An Ottawa-based company is trying to change the way households across the country dispose of food waste with innovative technology that speeds up the composting process to a matter of hours. Food Cycle Science has signed up about 20 municipalities across Canada to pilot its FoodCycler, a small food waste recycling machine the company claims can reduce the weight and volume of food waste by 90 per cent. Read more HERE.

This video will show beginners how to start making their own compost:

My hopes go up and down and up again! A year ago, a group of citizens got together to answer the question: how can we reduce waste in St. John’s? Composting was one of the answers. In June 2019, the province launched a consultation about solid waste management. This was part of a comprehensive review, the first since the strategy was released in 2002. The consultation included meetings with management authorities across the province, feedback from various forums, an online qu

Based in Corner Brook, the Western Environment Centre is partnering with the city of Corner Brook to create community gardens and is now focused on composting of household kitchen and garden waste. Read more HERE.

Everything that lives dies. Everything that dies decomposes and releases minerals and nutrients to feed the soil. In nature, organic materials decompose and nutrients are released into the soil to be taken up by surrounding plants. In the forest, tree leaves and other organic materials fall to the ground and over time they decompose with the help of macro-organisms (insects, worms, snails, etc.) and microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) to produce nutrient-rich organic material