• $35

Closing the Loop: The Art of Composting

  • Course
  • 28 Lessons

A series of tools, like a beginner's guide to small scale composting. 🌱 Tips on how to get the best results from a wide range of composting options currently on the market, plus ever growing DIY options & methods not requiring any equipment. Learn how to make exquisite compost, even in a tiny garden or apartment balcony. Note: content updated regularly, with new lessons added in response to requests.

Contents

🌱 Welcome
🌱 Shopping Guide (free download)

Some basic concepts generic to all systems

Start here for basic tips on composting.

🌱 Worm farming basics
🌱 Composting basics
🌱 Hot composting basics
🌱 Other ways to close the loop

Product guides in alphabetical order - get the most out of each system

🌱 About each product
🌱 Aerobin
🌱 Bathtub worm farm
🌱 Carbon Cycle Compost box
🌱 DIY in-ground worm farm with a case study
🌱 Hungry Bin worm farm
🌱 Pachamama, Pachawawa
🌱 Pallet bay composting
🌱 Trench composting in a container
🌱 Ukhu Pacha
🌱 Weed bags (like garden waste collection companies use)

Let's design some new solutions

šŸŒ±ā˜€ļø Woven Compost Enclosure using Harakeke (NZ Flax)
šŸŒ±ā˜€ļø Apartment Friendly Composting (on MakeSoil)
šŸŒ±ā˜€ļø (Katrina) Self-fertilising indoor house plant with in-ground worm farm
šŸŒ±ā˜€ļø (Katrina) Indoor trench composting
🌱 (Katrina) Under-the-counter indoor worm farm
(Your name) Want to share an idea with everyone?

Extras

Harakeke Composting (NZ Flax)
The 'Quick Return' (QR) method with a floral compost activator

Just for fun... some myth busting

Let's unpack some of the myths around composting, and hopefully remove a barrier or two that have prevented people getting into making soil.

🌱 You must position your compost bin in the sun
🌱 You can't put big branches in a compost pile
🌱 Don't put weeds in your compost bin