2025-07-26 Composting at Home 101 with video for SlideShare.pdf
- 1. COMPOSTING 101 Ellen Book, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County Master Gardener Link to slide presentation: TINYURL.com/HappySoil Welcome! We’ll begin at 2pm
- 2. 2023
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- 54. Miami Pioneers / Natives of Dade Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 2pm
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- 56. Composting at Home 101 repeats Saturday, August 23, 2025. , 2:00pm - 3:30pm On Zoom Voucher giveaway post-lecture
- 59. COMPOSTING 101 Ellen Book, Master Gardener UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County Master Gardener Link to slide presentation: TINYURL.com/HappySoil
- 66. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - IFAS https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/miami-dade/
- 67. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
- 70. 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone
- 75. Kitchen food scraps. Photo: Tia Silvasy, UF/IFAS
- 76. Too much too wet too long… Anaerobic bacteria kills worms UF/IFAS
- 78. A Tumbler Bin Composter UF/IFAS
- 83. Adjustable size allows you to set it up “skinny” for low capacity or make it large enough to hold 246 gallons of materials. 36.5″ in height
- 84. HOW TO SET UP A GEOBIN
- 86. Sheet Composting Top-dressing on the soil surface like a garden lasagna right onto a future growing space. Trench Composting - composting directly in the soil Cold Bin Composting Fill your compost bin halfway with browns and bury kitchen scraps Bokashi Bucket anaerobic bacteria (grass-like inoculated bran, rice, dried leaves sprinkled over scraps). 10 days to ferment & “pickle” waste, forming an acidic organic matter that must be dug into the soil or added to a compost pile. TYPES OF COMPOSTING
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- 90. GREENs = nitroGen BROWNs = carBon NitroGen = Protein CarBon = Energy From: https://small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable- living.com/how-build-compost-pile/
- 91. THE RECIPE
- 94. Can I compost this? Material Can I Compost? Comment Banana skins Yes Bird cage "waste" Yes Bone meal Yes Bread Yes Cereal Yes Citrus (e.g., oranges, grapefruit, lemons, tangerines) Yes Green/nitrogen - must cut in half or quarter before composting; mix with browns & add 6-inch layer of browns on top Coffee grounds (with paper filter) Yes Green/nitrogen Corn cobs Yes Cornmeal Yes Cottonseed meal Yes Crop waste Yes Egg shells Yes Adds calcium
- 95. Citrus green/nitrogen cut in half or quarter before composting mix with browns & add a 6-inch layer of browns on top
- 96. http://www.riverparkfarm.com/RiverparkFarm/BlogImages/8_6_13%20compost%20pyramid.jpg
- 99. Attribution to: KidsGardening: A Kids’ Guide to Messing Around in the Dirt by Kevin Raftery
- 104. Graphic from : https://www.emnz.com/article/microbial-imbalances-in-the-soil
- 105. “The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future : Don’t dismiss soil: its unknowable wonders could ensure the survival of our species” by George Monbiot in The Guardian, 5/7/2022 I
- 111. AS PILE TEMPERATURES & TIME IS NEEDED FOR VARIOUS MICROORGANISMS TO COLONIZE
- 112. Left: (1 year old) Last year’s material all garden stuff, grass & leaves, kitchen: banana peels veg. trimmings from the pile’s top. Middle: (2 years old) bottom of this year’s pile put into bags Right: (3 years old) Finished product from the bags to be used in the garden & greenhouse this year GUESS WHERE THIS COMPOST WAS MADE?
- 113. STUBBORN GARDEN WASTE Photo from the LA Times
- 116. Attribution to: KidsGardening: A Kids’ Guide to Messing Around in the Dirt by Kevin Raftery
- 118. The free GeoBin
- 124. Compost maturity test with radishes
- 125. Heat cooks most weeds. For hot composting turn when pile temperature drops below 100°F or if the pile is more than 150°F
- 126. How to Turn a Backyard Compost Pile Please note: "High-quality compost won't take two years to generate in warm climates like South Florida!"
- 127. HEALTHY VEGGIES AND PLANTS START WITH HEALTHY SOIL! UF/IFAS Leon County Extension
- 128. Five “Pests” in a Compost Pile Ants, spiders & centipedes: compost is too dry Slugs & flies: compost is too wet
- 131. NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT… Image result for yellow tails worms vermiculture
- 132. Red Wigglers
- 133. Contains • 5Xs the available nitrogen • 7Xs the available potash • 50% more calcium than 6” of good topsoil • Water soluble nutrient immediately available for plant intake. Will not burn root system unlike fresh raw manures Red Wigglers UF/IFAS
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- 137. KITCHEN SCRAP COLLECTION FOR FERTILE EARTH WORM FARM
- 139. LANDFILL SITES
- 141. Evaluation & Voucher The voucher is valid for three months & redeemable while supplies last
- 142. In a few months a will be emailed to you
- 143. Fill out the questions & click the orange button Complete the evaluation to access the composter voucher
- 144. Shown at the end of the presentation on 7/26/2025 This is the weblink to the evaluation and the voucher This evaluation will be accessible until Monday at 8:00AM GeoBin pickup starts Wednesday, 7/30/2025
- 145. Evaluation & Voucher The Miami-Dade voucher will be accepted for three months while supplies last The link to the evaluation that leads to the voucher will be up until this Monday at 8:00am. Vasquez,Laura A lavasquez@ufl.edu Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator Link to slide presentation: TINYURL.com/HappySoil