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City of Regina goes back to drawing board on composting facility
The decision to re-issue a tender for the construction of a composting facility comes after a vote by the Rural Municipality of Edenwold that ended plans to construct a facility in the RM.
#city #construction #facility #composting #Regina #Edenwold
cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa

Compost Culture: An Introductory Film
vimeo.com/1046340414

A nice video about Birmingham’s community #composting project which I was involved with before long-Covid took me off the board. This features the three-bay structures I designed and co-built last year and it’s quite emotional seeing them in use.

Some more PHA prints from makerspace patrons. Did you know it comes in both flexible AND rigid forms? In the first one, that's a flexible version that was run through one coarse-grit round of vibratory tumbling after the print. That gives it this feel/texture that is shockingly similar to rubber, and nearly eliminates the layer lines entirely. The second one is rigid.

#3dprinting #PHA #composting

If you're trying to get started with #composting all you need is

- an open space on the ground
- a lot of carbon (wood chips, cardboard, old hay, dried leaves)
- some nitrogen (food waste, grass clippings, coffee grounds, manure, etc)
- to keep the pile moist (moisture is the foundation of decomposition)
- to flip it occasionally as to not let it go anaerobic (the "good guys" need air and "bad guys" make for the nasty version of compost you don't want near your food gardens)

You need way more carbon than you think you do. No carbon? Go for a #vermicomposting bin instead. Eisenia fetida get on real well with simple paper waste and food scraps. You can make a bin with old buckets or tote bins.

This is high level but a good place to start. Just make a pile and learn from it. Buying things to "manage" it only separates you from the process and limits your ability to build intuition for it.

I am literally the Lorax this account is what I have to say.
Look you've clearly tried absolutely everything else so I'm going to say this one last time. Then I'm going to sleep.
A lot of you have finally come around to realize that the #oligarchs simply will never piss you out if you're on fire.
Some pretend to care more. Some couldn't pretend to care less. None of them care about you at all.
Who might care about you is you if you get around to it quickly enough.
In 2 months there is what I can only describe as a "Doom wave" that will hit.
The rest of it is up in the air due to the absolute chaos of mad men running an entire country. But one thing is certain and it is there will be an economic collapse and there will be a famine.
Those like myself are still here because the previous attempts on our lives throughout the years have failed every time.
I'm personally "notoriously hard to kill".
You can learn from this or you can surely perish.
You can do very little to help anyone if you are dead. This is something most realize sooner or later in their lives.
The Trump people have voted for their own disintegration. These people are not smart.
The old foggies and "middle class" or at least people that still think there is a middle class that just voted for this, will be hit the hardest at least at first.
This is because Donald Trump and his clown car posse will immediately implement destructive tariffs, cut social services, and disintegrate their entire voting base.
Social security, Medicaid, Medicare, pensions, welfare, probably public schools, public universities, maybe the IRS. Maybe the FBI who knows what will be left , because they're about to pull an Elon Musk and drop that kitchen sink like they did on Twitter dot com.
They will likely do this while deporting the people that actually grow our food. White people don't understand this because they apparently just have something wrong with them on a deep level from birth. I don't understand how this level of ignorance is possible. Somehow it skipped me and I'm grateful.
What they won't be doing is fucking picking avocados.
I assume they think Smurfs drop food from the sky into the supermarket.
They will die still not understanding the simple concept that their food comes from somewhere actually.
You don't have to go out in the first wave family. I say this because I'm still here after all these waves.
This mixed with climate change is going to decimate the food supply in the United States.
This mixed with the #tariffs and the ignorant. Shall we say "adjustments" to the #financial system will cost prices to skyrocket to astronomical levels very rapidly.
I'm running out of words here so I'm going to finish this part of it up. There's about to be a biblical collapse of the #economy while prices shoot up like like an algae bloom.
Here is what you can do.
Arm yourself. Learn to use #firearms. Learn to love firearms.
The #white people you're a terrified of are huge pussies. If they think fucking with you is going to result in getting shot in the face. Your odds of avoiding problems dramatically skyrockets.
If things go all the way south and they're just going to murder you anyway, make sure they pay for it every single time.
This is what stopped Hitler. It was Nazis getting shot in the face just fyi.
#Off-Grid anything you can every bill, if things hit the fan financially, will be a weight around your neck and dragging you under forever. You won't come back.
At the very least, set you up a room, a camper, a shack that is "Doom proof" as far as you can manage it.
Strive to acquire something that is basically free to maintain in case you need it someday because that day is today.
If nothing else a fortified camper. If you have it handled, set up a room in your house that is doomed resistant.
Learn to grow food immediately. Lentils, fava beans, and scarlet runners cover most of the US climate ranges. These also regenerate the soil that can be used as cover crops. The term for this is "green manure". The math says you should expect to become #vegan
Find out what grows locally. Find plants that want to be alive.
If it's fussy, you're wasting your time.
Look into #permaculture. Learn #composting immediately. Consider #solar power. Consider radiant insulation. Consider all this now while you can. You will be gone in 2 months if you don't.
Congratulations! You're now an #anarchist.
Help people if you can but remember well that you will help no one if you are dead.
#Anarchy #Millennial #Shitshow101

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Done for today and made some decent progress. Gardens look so bare once the perennials and weeds are gone. This shade garden is usually overflowing with Hostas and Astilbe.
Compost bin is at max capacity, so I'll top this off with shredded leaves and grass clippings after my final mowing of the season. There's a lot more garden clean-up to be done, so the rest will go out with the weeds on yard waste day this Friday.

Right, my bokashi bran has arrived so I've started that going again. With the worms settling in, food waste is now near-zero.

I just need a few hundred litres of compost to start my buckets going, and get the test garlic in for winter. Will chase local shop this weekend to see if they can still pick me some up from the mainland.

Trying a simple and lazy compost solution..

Had a 1m of 10cm PVC pipe I was planning to use for a hydroponic project that I gave up and decided to try a lazy man's compost solution with it.

Made a lot of holes in the first 20cm of the pipe (with 3 and 5mm drill bits) and pushed it into a pot I used to have a tomato plant in. Planted some mint around it and put a small pot on top to work as the cover I may plant sometimes there later.

Whenever I have some #vegetables left over, I put them in the pipe and will have good compost in it by the summer as the worms in the pot go in an out of the holes, eating the vegetable and turn it to #fertilizer.

At the same time, I am going to have unlimited mint to have for tea or salad.

I may cover and paint the pipe, or maybe cover it with some wood I saved from orange boxes to make it look pretty.

This is what I've learned this year. Suit it to taste/#climate.
Fava beans, lentils and/or Scarlet runners depending on the temperatures.
Swiss chard, figs and blackberries, woodland or alpine strawberries depending on climate.
Mulberry trees, hazelnuts, and chives. There is also something called tree kale or purple tree collard.
Amaranth grows where it's very hot. Use the beans and #composting to nurture the soil.
3-4 Kilowatt hour incoming #solar charge, and about 9 to 10 KW hours of lithium phosphorus batteries.
Run nothing but 48 volt systems or you're wasting your time.
This radiant installation pictured below has given me a 20° variance between external and internal temperatures.
I use the lights from some cloning chambers I built into the house to stabilize the temperatures through the winter. Vent heat from LED light fixtures into the house. If you need more heat, use a wood burning stove.
It gets a little chilly but it can drop below 20° f and it stays habitable inside.
This is one layer of the insulation, my math called for two. Halfway done I will still make it through this winter.
I use the water storage to further stabilize the temperature.
I made it 80% of the year with just this pitiful water catchment system I installed in a hurry.
It is two small tarps going into a shady 30 gallon water bucket.
The upgrade will be an 8x8 tarp headed into a 50 gallon rain barrel.
The gardens take more water than humans. For months sometimes it's simply will refuse to rain.
When it does rain, the power takes a hit thus of the batteries.
Expect to put the farm ahead of everything else.
Cut down invasive trees. Use them for firewood and to hide you from the outside.
Do not bulldoze Fern Gully. Any clearing you create will then have to be managed.
A composting toilet that separates the liquid is essential.
Be mindful of bugs at all times in all places or eventually they will remind you forcefully that they exist.
An #ecosystem of dragonflies, lizards, and bats has sprung up to deal with endless swarms of insects.
Yellow jackets live nearby and outnumber the bees 50 to one. The yellow jackets and wasp do most of the pollinating as unfortunate as that is.
In this new world you have forbidden bees or nothing.
Birds are a double-edged sword, but there is nothing worse than an unchecked bug swarm being your existence for the rest of your life.
Squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, All manner of groundhog, hedgehogs, larger animals such as deer join the crows.
Work something out with the birds, work something out with a yellow jackets, work something out with the animals and the trees.
You are building an ecosystem, a small world.
The condensation from the leaves creates a rain every morning.
I'm not sure what tipping point stops this, but I have no plans to find out.
This kind of depends on going #vegan, I'm not going to lie. Supplement it with textured vegetable protein, nutritional yeast, and multivitamins.
A simple thing is to glob peanut butter into a bowl of course cut oats, then sprinkle with cinnamon.
You should plan on some sort of internet connection, recreation, and a shower or two at least every week, or you will quickly go mad.
Time your heavy labor for shower days. That way you won't be stuck gross.
Keep peroxide, witch hazel, creams, and health and beauty aides of course on hand.
Wash your clothes in a bustub and rinse them out in the storms.
Learn to build fences and barriers both living and material. Grow blackberry up a deer fence made of t-post, these posts can be driven to anchor a row of cinder blocks to the ground. This will also deter vehicles. A layer of barbed wire deters humans.
Create walls of hazel and figs. Learn to work the #hedge.
#ClimateDiary #Permaculture #Homestead #Anarchy #Solar #SolarPunk