Podcasts about composting

The average farmer and even large scale gardener in the US spends a great deal on fertilizers and fertility aids to gain a good yield on their efforts.  Due to modern chemistry mankind was gifted or cursed depending on how … Continue reading →

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Brian is in Denver, Colorado to report on the world's first body composting convention hosted by The Natural Funeral. Today's show is sponsored by: Hilton Funeral Supply Indiana Donor Network

Ryan Green and Adrienne Huckabone are a husband and wife duo who founded and run Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting, a residential and commercial compost operation in Bozeman and surrounding areas.Full show notes at northstarunplugged.com

30% of what NYC sends to landfills is organic waste. Which means the city is paying a lot of money and adding to carbon emissions with material that could otherwise be composted. In this episode, we breakdown the benefits of composting and spend a bit more time talking about the practicality of composting - and how the city is changing its approach to make composting easier and more accessible. Composting is likely coming to your neighborhood soon, so mark the dates and get ready to save your organic material, doing your part as a New Yorker!

This week, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt joins host Kristen Fares and Race Director Kari Watkins to talk about the Memorial Marathon's powerful impact and what's new for 2023. He also explains how his “One OKC” message of unity and finding common purpose parallels the mission of the Marathon and the Memorial.Then, Amanda Scofield from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality describes her team's recycling and composting efforts. She also details how runners can do their part to protect the environment during Marathon Weekend.And last, even with nine young children between them, sisters Katy Turney, Kelly Connel and Kristen Neal make time to train for the Memorial Marathon. They share how training and crossing the finish line together has bonded them even closer.Follow the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest marathon updates and visit www.OKCMarathon.com to sign up to run, volunteer or learn more—and be sure to register for races before the March 4 price increase.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OKCMarathonTwitter: https://twitter.com/okcmarathonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/okcmarathon

Planting and love have significant connections, stressing the value of nurturing, patience, adaptation, and the benefits that come with putting time and effort into something worthy.Join us in an inspiring conversation with Dr. Evie Young -Spath as we talk about the importance of seeding and composting and how they can be of great relevance to love and to our life as human BEings.Follow Dr. EvieInstagram: drevieyoungspathWe love hearing from you, please leave us a commentᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ᴜꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ , ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴ, ꜱʜᴀʀᴇ  ᴀɴᴅ SUBSCRIBE

We're celebrating the kings of composting in this Worm 101 potcast with Dan Rasure, CEO of Fed 'n Happy. We discuss the role of worms in the soil ecosystem, how it works, and the benefits of worm castings for growing cannabis, mushrooms, and your favorite fruits and veggies. We also discuss the business of worm farming and how to get started with your own DIY bin. We even dabble in death with talk of earth-friendly burial methods. Learn more in the Potcast 242 show notes at casuallybaked.com.And while you're here, shop potcast affiliates and score Casually Baked discounts while supporting the show. MJ Relief is Ph.D. formulated for what aches and pains you WITHOUT THC. Always save 10% using promo code: casuallybaked   --> Purchase here.From the reproductive years through menopause, the Green Women's Guide is for any woman seeking the most up-to-date science-based information on how to - or not to - incorporate Cannabis into her life. Save 25% on the course using promo code CASUALLYBAKEDLooking For High-Quality Cannabis-Delivery in the Bay Area? Try getsava.com + use promo code CASUALLYBAKED to SAVE $40 off your first order.If you do not live in a cannabis-legal state, find hemp-derived THCV aka "Skinny Weed" at TejasHemp.com

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with Kristen Pullen the Woody Ornamental Portfolio Manager at Star® Roses and Plants all about growing bountiful berries in small space. The plant profile is on Phlox stolonifera and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with Christy Wilhelmi, founder of Gardenerd, who shares the Last Word on Composting. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support. Show Notes are posted to: https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2023/02/gardendc-podcast-episode-139-bountiful.html Learn more about the Bushel and Berry collection here. If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 22: Fruit Trees, Crape Myrtle, and Low-Maintenance Lawn Alternatives https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/08/gardendc-podcast-episode-22-fruit-trees.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 82: Persimmons and Other Unusual Fall Fruits https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2021/11/gardendc-podcast-episode-82-persimmons.html We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages in a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform plus share us on social media with #GardenDC, so other gardeners can find us too! Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz Editing and Show Notes: Jessica Harden Recorded on 2-25-2023. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

Hayley prepares us for our Lenten experiment of “giving up unhelpful beliefs” with a look at how healthy belief is an act of creative re-purposing. (Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate

Hayley prepares us for our Lenten experiment of “giving up unhelpful beliefs” with a look at how healthy belief is an act of creative re-purposing. (Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate

Jenny Gaddy, founder of Atlyss Food Co, is all about finding ways to reduce waste and give back to the earth, while providing food for those in the Charleston area who want a healthy meal but don't have the time to prepare it themselves. In this interview, she talks with Hannah about sustainable food habits, composting, regenerative farming, and her company, Atlyss Food Co.LINKS - Website: https://atlyssfoodco.com/pages/aboutIG: @atlyssfoodcoResources for Composting:https://www.charleston-sc.gov/1557/Composting https://www.compostnow.org https://www.Sustainsouthcarolina.org https://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/soil-fertility-and-erosion.html Welcome to the Healthy Charleston Podcast, where we help you take ownership of your health and fitness. We are here to be your source of accurate health and fitness information while spreading awareness about the health and fitness resources available to you in the Charleston area. Be sure you are subscribed so you never miss an episode, we hope you enjoy the show.Follow Hannah and Made2Move:@hannahbreal_dpt @made2movept DONT spend another day in pain! Sign up for an appointment at made2movept.com and get 10% off your first visit when you mention the podcast.

Matt Haines has sampled more than 80 king cakes from New Orleans bakeries, just in time for Carnival season. Professor Psyche A. Williams-Forson considers the stereotypes and stigmas of race and diet. Beekeeper Adam Novicki breaks down the exacting process of almond tree pollination in California. Michael Martinez of LA Compost has an update on the ins and outs of the green composting bin. Malli chefs Elizabeth Heitner and Nestor Silva pop up in Virgil Village at Jewel for a President's Day brunch.

ORRA interviews Walter Davis owner and Founder of Davis & Daughter Farms LLCUrban FarmSmall urban farm specializing in

ORRA interviews Walter Davis owner and Founder of Davis & Daughter Farms LLCUrban FarmSmall urban farm specializing in

This week, we interview Katrina Spade, the founder of Recompose, a company that provides funeral service by composting the dead. Inspired by the Gratitude Blooming Wildcard - Lilac, Katrina shares her personal journey and experiences that led her to this work, including her childhood growing up in rural New Hampshire and her background in architecture and design. She explains how composting and gardening were a part of her early awareness of the cycles of life and death, and how her work with Recompose is focused on creating a more natural and sustainable way of dealing with death. She also talks about the challenges and successes of starting and growing her business, as well as the legal and societal hurdles she faced in this field. Additionally, she shares her thoughts on the funeral service industry and its impact on the environment and the rising conversation around end-of-life and climate change grief. The goal of Recompose is to make composting the default solution and to create a gathering of community to legalize and prove that it is safe. With this in mind, Katrina aims to make the entire experience, including decomposing human bodies, beautiful and to create rich topsoil in 30-60 days.Enjoy our closing practice on thinking about your own legacy and what you want to consciously leave behind!--------If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.You can also share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners.And don't forget to check out our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com where you can support the podcast even further. Thank you for your continued support. We appreciate you!

A few years ago, RV Composting Toilets were the rage. Of course the temptation for affiliate marketing on popular YouTube Channels were just so tempting. They are expensive after all and bring in pretty good buck. Of course the reality of the RV Composting Toilet was that it had a high maintenance value to it, and most RVers soon turned against them. NOT US! WE love ours and here is why. Show Notes: The Scoop on the Poop Ariane shares Scott's poop to friends “Can I dump my pee tank in your toilet”? The Struggle is Real Scott doesn't trust Ariane's answer to the question. “Is the pee tank full”?

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with Gary Pilarchik of The Rusted Garden about home composting. The plant profile is on Stinking Hellebore and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm podcast, who shares the Last Word on Observation. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support. Show Notes will be posted here after 2/7/2023. If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 123: Cover Crops and Winter Bed Prep https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/10/gardendc-podcast-episode-123-cover.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 103: Mulching and Weeding Tips https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/05/gardendc-podcast-episode-103-mulching.html We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform plus share us on social media with #GardenDC, so other gardeners can find us too! Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz Editing and Show Notes: Jessica Harden Recoeded on 2-4-2023. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

Welcome to Part 4 of our four part series, 2022's greatest hits of Garden Basics with Farmer Fred. The four parts include the top 10 most listened-to segments last year.  In part 1, in Ep. 248, we talked about how to grow tomatoes.  In part 2, in Episode 249, we talked with "Grow Now" author Emily Murphy about a way to build your soil without having to purchase bags of potting mix. It's called lasagna gardening. And  we visited with Master Gardener Pam Bone,  with good tips for growing raspberries and boysenberries.In Episode 250, it was a Debbie Flower extravaganza. Our favorite retired college horticulture professor discussed how to reuse old potting soil, tips for reducing water use in the yard, and a checklist for starting your first garden or a new garden.Today in Part 4, just like every good rock group has a live album, we had a live podcast last Spring, at the Folsom, California Garden Club. It's one of the most listened to podcasts of 2022, We're podcasting from Barking Dog Studios here in the beautiful Abutilon Jungle in Suburban Purgatory. It's the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, brought to you today by Smart Pots and Dave Wilson Nursery. Let's go!Pictured: Debbie Flower at the Folsom Garden Club appearanceLinks: Subscribe to the free, Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter https://gardenbasics.substack.com Smart Pots https://smartpots.com/fred/ Dave Wilson Nursery https://www.davewilson.com/home-garden/ All About Farmer Fred: The GardenBasics.net websiteThe Garden Basics with Farmer Fred Newsletter, Beyond the Basics https://gardenbasics.substack.comFarmer Fred website The Farmer Fred Rant! Blog Facebook:  "Get Growing with Farmer Fred" Instagram: farmerfredhoffman https://www.instagram.com/farmerfredhoffman/Twitter: @FarmerFredFarmer Fred Garden Minute Videos on YouTube As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases from possible links mentioned here.Got a garden question? • Leave an audio question without making a phone call via Speakpipe, at https://www.speakpipe.com/gardenbasics• Call or text us the question: 916-292-8964. • Fill out the contact box at GardenBasics.netThank you for listening, subscribing and commenting on the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast and the Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter

Episode 61.1: Sports Booze, Hurricane Ian, Cajun Navy, Skeeters, and Composting Humans

In this episode of the podcast, we explore the unconventional income stream of worm farming. Our guest, Natalie from Hey It's a Good Life, shares her inspiring story of how she turned her life around by starting a garden and worm-farming business. This is the first episode in a four-part series on Homestead Income. Listeners will get an inside look at how Natalie got started with worm farming and the challenges she faced along the way. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in alternative income streams or sustainable living. Tune in to learn how you can start your own worm-farming business and turn your passion into a profitable venture. Note: This interview was conducted on Instagram live and can be watched in its entirety by visiting the host's Instagram account @farmer_mona and Natalie's account @HeyItsaGoodLife. The next two episodes will also be in this format.   INTERVIEW Natalie's Info: Website: https://heyitsagoodlife.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyyitsagoodlife/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@heyitsagoodlife Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. Free 101 Homestead Income Ideas List https://www.healthyhomesteading.com/homesteadincome Listen to the podcast on your favorite player: https://plinkhq.com/i/1636732326 Follow the Homestead Income Instagram account too! https://www.instagram.com/homesteadincome/ Other links to know Homesteading for Beginners workbook: https://healthyhomesteading.com/workbook Free Homesteading for Beginners Checklist: https://www.healthyhomesteading.com/checklist/ Mona's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmer_mona/

From more composting to fighting crime, Mayor Eric Adams delivered his annual State of the City address with an unexpected guest, Gov. Kathy Hochul. NY1's Zack Fink, Juan Manuel Benítez and Courtney Gross weigh in on the speech and touch on how Adams' vision differs from his predecessors.  After that, the governor has issued a statewide proposal to ban gas stoves in some new construction by 2025 and larger projects in 2028. The Hochul administration is expected to present more details on how it would work in the coming weeks. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is loving the new initiative. The team examines the many subsidies that will be available to people as New York aims to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels, and discuss the public's reaction to the announcement. We want to hear from you, especially what you think of the mayor's State of the City address.  Leave a message: 212-379-3440 Email: yourstoryny1@charter.com

Composting is a traditional form of adding nutrients to your soil to produce more nutritional plants. Learn how to compost your food scraps to reduce your waste and decrease green house gases.

Tonight: Jose Huizar pleads guilty to corruption charges; The latest "Point in Time" count of unhoused; How are we doing on composting?; and more. Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.  Support the show: https://laist.com

Logan Cowan is a permaculture food forest rancher & advocate for self sustaining regenerative cycles. He's 18, and lives in upstate South Carolina with his partner Jolie who joins us and the end of this episode! Logan & Jolie have built a permaculture silvopasture foodforest with homegrown Pawpaws, figs, persimmons, heirloom, apples, and other exotic fruits for you pick, and their pigs get to eat the fruit as well! They sell their woodland forest-raised heritage pork too. In this episode, Logan and I talk about how the world can build back soil health, what permaculture is, forest raised pigs, how a food forest is built, what silvopasture is, how Logan and his partner Jolie met, how to start a regenerative farm, the future of forest farming, what it's like to raise animals, organic farming practices, adding fertility into the soil, layering the soil and allowing the animals to naturally fertilize it, raw meat, the raw primal diet, raw animal products, raw meat, free birth, holistic pregnancy, DMT, psilocybin mushrooms, urine therapy, wrapping wounds with honey butter and raw meat, and so much more if you can imagine! Logan also offers personal coaching and consulting services for health, fitness and permaculture systems. - LOGAN COWAN - INSTAGRAM: @logan_permaculture | https://www.instagram.com/logan_permaculture/ YOUTUBE: @LoganCowan | https://youtube.com/@LoganCowan FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/people/Logan-Cowan/100089362261253/?mibextid=LQQJ4d SCHEDULE A SESSION WITH LOGAN: https://msha.ke/logancowan - CONNECT - Connect with Emily to ask any questions that you have & share thoughts and feedback. INSTAGRAM: @emilys.rootawakening | https://www.instagram.com/emilys.rootawakening JOIN MY EMAIL TRIBE: https://keap.page/jmt235/email-tribe.html THE CONFIDENCE COURSE: https://keap.page/jmt235/confidence-course.html TYPE B BUSINESS SCHOOL™: https://keap.page/jmt235/typeb.html MANIFESTATION GROUP COACHING COURSE: https://rootawakening.spiffy.co/checkout/manifestation-exploration EMAIL: emily@rootawakening.co (.co, not .com) - SUPPORT - Spread the word, subscribe, review this podcast, share this podcast with loved ones, share this podcast with your community. Let's lift each other up and become empowered together. MUSIC BY: Pluto Monday | Esan is an incredible painter, musician, artist, and all around spectacular human. Support his work and prepare to soak up some creative energy: @plutomonday | https://www.instagram.com/plutomonday

It's January 21, 2023. Anika is back with a podcast episode about how we can take care of the earth better. Do you know what the 3 Rs are?  How about composting? This episode is all for you! 

Spiritual Direction Can Solve (almost) All of the World's Problems. Can it? This episode something of an experiment for the Forum on Spiritual Direction. As I have struggled to accept my own failures, I offer some of my weaknesses and questions with you as an opportunity to explore the focus question of this series: can spiritual direction solve (almost) all of the world's problems? This episode turns out to be a kind of audio essay with no specific final point, no definite idea. Mostly I am looking to share myself and to welcome you deeper into this conversation I'm having with Cami.Over the holiday while home, I was prompted by the previous Forum discussion with Cami about the spirituality of our origins. So I take you on an audio walk around the Illinois farm where I was raised. I then share some further reflections while on retreat at St. Gregory's Abbey in Three Rivers Michigan. I'm considering how deep listening to our failures is a necessary, essential a gift for the sake of our healing and growth. Failures can become compost! Much Love to you!Josh **The picture I've used for this episode is from our family farm, taken the morning of January 3, 2023 For more information: www.theinvitationcenter.org

Composting is taking diverse organic material and making a habitat for the microbes that will process the material. Jean Bonhotal, Director of Cornell Waste Management Institute in the Department of Soils and Crop Sciences explains that there are three necessary ingredients to make a great compost. First, the pile should start with carbon-like woodchips to help move air through. Second, add in wet waste like food or pomace. And third, top the pile with carbon. The most important factor in making compost is temperature. In fact, you do not need to turn piles. The organisms that break down compost generate temperatures that are about 90 to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. A great example of this is seen in mortality composting, used for livestock. These piles are created by layering 24 inches of woodchips, followed by the animal, and top with another 24 inches of wood chips. The animal will liquefy and then everything starts to mix as the microbes work. In 12 to 24 hours the pile will reach the desired 130 degrees Fahrenheit. While compost is not technically a fertilizer it has numerous benefits including imparting nutrients, pest resistance, helping with erosion control, and improving water holding capacity because it works like a sponge. Listen in to hear Jean's best advice on how to create great compost. References: 1/20/2023 REGISTER: Improving Soil Health with Compost & Vermiculture Tailgate 53: Producing Compost and Carbon Sequestration 106: What? Bury Charcoal in the Vineyard? 151: The Role of the Soil Microbiome in Soil Health 153: The Role of Nematodes in Soil Health Aerated Compost Tea Composting Handbook Compost Use for Improved Soil Poster Series Improving and Maintaining Compost Quality Niner Wine Estates SIP Certified Testing Composts Tipsheet: Compost Vineyard Team – Become a Member What Is Animal Mortality Composting? Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  My guest today is Jean Bonhotal. She is Director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute. And he's also a Senior Extension Associate in the Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Science Section at Cornell University. And we're talking about compost today. Thanks for being here, Jean.   Jean Bonhotal  0:13  Thank you.   Craig Macmillan  0:14  I like to start with basics when we're talking about a topic. And sometimes it seems kind of silly, but it oftentimes shapes what we talk about. Let's start with a very basic definition. What exactly is compost.   Unknown Speaker  0:26  So I'm going to start with a definition before I get into composting, and that is what is organic, what is organic? When I'm using the term organic, this is what it will mean something that was once alive and is now dead, and needs to be managed. That comes with all different types of quality. But we are usually looking for clean feedstocks, that are organic in origin. So we don't want glass and plastic and other materials that really don't break down and have put a lot of plastic into our environment, because they break down into little tiny pieces, and they're still there. So I'll start with that. Composting is basically taking organic material, all different diverse, organic materials, preferably, and making a habitat for microbes, the microbes that are going to process these materials. When we're composting, we can do all of the work mechanically. But it doesn't really work that well because composting is a process. And if we set it up so that we have our carbon and nitrogen ratios, well balanced. And those are browns and greens, wet and dry materials. So those are the things that we need to balance, then we will have a proper habitat for the microbes to work in and they will thrive. The microbes are what make the heat in a compost. When we're composting very small volumes, we don't always have heat. And that's because we don't have the volume that we need for that composting to happen in commercial scale, we generally will have enough volume. So as long as we balance that carbon and nitrogen, we will have a very good compost that will actually work mostly by itself.   Craig Macmillan  2:29  So you need different kinds of microbes for taking action on different types of materials, whether they be high nitrogen or high carbon or whatever. Where did those bacteria and fungi, where do those come from?   Jean Bonhotal  2:40  They come from everywhere. They come from us breathing on the medium that we're putting in there they come from the air, their bio aerosolized is what we consider. So these things blow in, and we really don't have to inoculate most composts. The only reason we might need to inoculate a compost is because we've shut it down. Either we've put something in there that's too toxic for the organisms to work with, or we've made it too hot in that pile. The organisms that we're working with are thermophilic organisms, they generate temperatures that are about 90 to 150. And the actual range for thermophilic is more like 130. Those are the temperatures that we really like to reach 130 to 150 is really degrees Fahrenheit is really the temperatures that we want to heat want to reach.   Craig Macmillan  3:42  And that's because those are the ranges where these particular microbes are the most happy.   Jean Bonhotal  3:46  Yes, and the microbes are actually generating the heat. It's like putting 55th graders in a room you don't have to heat. They're giving off lots of energy and have to do anything else. They're doing the work and metabolizing all of that material.   We were talking about a range, what if we're not generating enough heat? What kinds of things happen then? Or what can we do to change that?   Well back up because that is dependent on size. So we have to have that volume and that and if we look at physics, that volume is three by three by three feet cubed. However, when we're working in cold climates, that is not large enough. So everything will freeze really, we have to have everything so perfect with that three by three by three cube that we're not likely to reach those temperatures. So it's really balancing the carbon and nitrogen the moisture. And because if like in arid climates where everything dries out horribly, we need to make sure there's enough moisture retained in that because these are aerobic organisms that are doing all the work. And we really need to make sure that they have that moisture, or else they can't really work. People think that worms make compost, and to an extent they do, there's vermicompost. And it's a different than thermophilic composting that I'm talking about. But Vermacomposting is done with epigeic worms. It's done in a 24 inch bed. So you're making that compost in kind of a shallow bed so that it won't heat up, because the worms are actually doing all of the work in that system. When worms come into a compost, or thermophilic compost, that's at the end of the process, they can't tolerate the heat in the thermophilic process. But they do like to process those organisms that are in there. So they will go in and actually process some of that material toward the end. And in some ways, you can tell that you have a more finished compost, because worms are actually able to thrive in there.   Craig Macmillan  6:07  Where did the worms come from?   Jean Bonhotal  6:09  Generally from the ground, if you're composting in a vessel, you're not going to have worms in there unless you had like warm eggs or something that were already in the medium, and hatched or something like that. So that's where those are coming from. So like indoor facilities generally wouldn't have an earthworm coming in and processing. And the epigeic worms are surface feeders, so they're coming up, they detect that something's up there to eat. And they'll just come to the surface, eat it, pull it down, up and down, you know, they can actually handle above 54 degrees, where a lot of worms dry out and die there. As they get if it gets too hot, and they get too dry.   Craig Macmillan  6:57  You had mentioned the right mix or blend the right kind of connection of different materials and other recipes that that work for certain practical applications are given certain materials, you want certain ratios, how does that work?   Jean Bonhotal  7:10  There are recipes out there. But basically, you have to look at everything as carbon and nitrogen. So if you're a vineyard that wants to compost, the pumice, all your all your promise while you're squeezing all that kind of material, then you're gonna have to look at that and figure out whether that's going to work by itself, just that promise. But you do have grape skins, and you have grape seeds in there. So the grape skins and the grape seeds actually can work together to create a good habitat and actually make things work or you have a pH of about four or five in those pressings. That's going to deter worms for a while it is going to deter some other organisms for a while, but things will start to get going. And that's how we tend to do that. If it's really sloppy and wet, it would be better to add a little bit more waste, but another waste, marry it with another waste, whether you have some manure or you know the if there are some animals on site, if you can mix in manure, or some shavings, or I don't usually like to put wood chips in because it makes a coarser compost for a vineyard. And we want generally want to find our compost.   Craig Macmillan  8:30  Which actually reminds me of something. There were two things that I had learned and that they may not be true when I was coming up and we're talking like 20 years ago. One was that you had to have manure as part of the mix, some kind of a manure there was one and then the second one was forget about using any kind of wood chip vines, anything like that, because they're not going to break down. And that's not going to work. So how is that accurate for either this ideas?   Jean Bonhotal  8:54  No, we have to use all of our carbon sources. Honestly, we do have to use all different carbon sources in different types of composting. I'll give you an example of facilities that by regulation, they're only allowed to compost leaf and yard waste. So they're not allowed to bring in food unless they have a permit to bring in food waste. So there's a lot of different rules that occur over municipalities. Some municipalities got the idea because they needed more nitrogen, there's a lot of carbon and your dry leaves and your woodchips and your woody waste. And I generally will say if I make a pile of sticks, which is all carbon, so all all different sticks and just put them in a pile. If I go back six months later, what is it going to be?   Craig Macmillan  9:42  Dried sticks?   Jean Bonhotal  9:43  A pile of sticks, because I don't have any real nitrogen there is nitrogen in there but I don't have enough in there to make that break down. So I do like to size reduce those chips, the woody waste and that's chipping off or grinding or something like that. And that will make things go better. If you need to compost just leaves, what the municipalities were doing was adding chemical fertilizer to them. Because the chemical fertilizer would bring the nitrogen in, you have to decide do you want to use the chemical nitrogen, the chemical fertilizer, or not in your process, but that will make it work because their carbon and their nitrogen, and we can do that.   Craig Macmillan  10:27  Do I need to do some analysis on these materials and figure out what I actually have and then make calculations from there.   Jean Bonhotal  10:33  So the ratios that we want to use are two to three to one. So I have a good picture of a bucket. And it could be any bucket, think of a cottage cheese container up to us eight yard bucket, I want one bucket of wet material, a very wet material. And then three buckets of very dry material. That's how we balance those ratios. But we are really some of it is like It's like making bread, we don't dump all the flour and all the water in at one time, we put in a little bit of time, because we need to balance out what that recipe actually needs. And the same thing happens in composting, the operators get very good at knowing, okay, that's really, really dry material. And that's really, really wet material. And I might even need to make because we can compost liquids, I might need to make a bowl to put that liquid in there or that really wet material in there so that it can stay in the pile. So I can use that moisture, mix it with the woody waste, and allow that to happen.   Craig Macmillan  11:42  This is beginning to get kind of intimidating. I was kind of hoping that I just would throw a bunch of stuff in a pile and walk away and come back and magically I now have compost.  Yeah, how do I figure this out, I guess we're gonna get my education?   Jean Bonhotal  11:58  So one of the ways we do small scale composting is we layer the materials in so we'll have a bin and we'll put carbon down at the bottom, make sure we have a good carbon layer because that's going to act as an air plenum on the bottom. So simple, just woodchips a pallet, something that's going to allow air to come in, then we'll put nitrogen or put in our wet waste, our food waste, our pumice, those materials, we're going to put carbon on top of that. So we never should be able to see what we're composting, it should always look like a pile of comp of compost. But I will talk a little bit about mortality composting and how we do that, because it really tells us how the whole thing is supposed to work. And what we do is we put down 24 inches of woodchips, then I'll put a cow in. And then I'll put 24 inches of woodchips over top of that, what happens in that is the cow starts to liquefy. And then it starts to mix with all of the material, all the all the microbes are starting to work. And everything starts mixing together in a very slow motion in 12 to 24 hours, I should have 130 degrees Fahrenheit in that pile. If I don't, then I've built it wrong. But generally even with we're composting right now with frozen animals, and we're able because of the size of our piles, we're able to do that, that heats up. So whatever the pile is, or the windrow is that heats up, and then the heat rises, and it actually convex around that that medium. So the organisms are getting all that and we don't have to do any turning. We don't have to turn at all. So we don't always turn and if I do that layering like I was talking about in a bin, if we layer it in a bin, then we will be able to do that and walk away and just let the rain and snow fall on it through the season. It'll be slower, but it will compost.   Craig Macmillan  14:11  So again, I had been under the impression that you always have to you have a regular schedule, you have to turn it to aerate it. And you also have to monitor the moisture. No you do not.   Jean Bonhotal  14:19  No. No. The only real tool that we use is temperature. We monitor temperatures in piles, we can tell everything that's going on in that pile is that making sure that it's working well or we need to add more water or we need to whatever we can tell that by temperature.   Craig Macmillan  14:39  If the temperature is getting too high. What do you do?   Jean Bonhotal  14:41  I do compost in arid places where our temperatures can get really high because our piles are too big. Okay, and then we really have to be careful because we can have spontaneous combustion. And our large ones I worked with some facilities in Idaho that around the Boise area, and they were in danger of combusting. And as they were like, what do we do? Well, if we add a lot of air real fast, we're going to be in trouble. If we add a lot of water real fast, we're going to be in trouble. So what we do is we, we will break those piles carefully, break those piles down, just deconstruct those, lay them in sheet, and then just make sure that they've cooled off, then we can build a pile again, but it can be a problem in hot and arid climates. And it can happen anywhere there are different manures like poultry manure will burn more easily than other manure because of the ammonia contents. Because of the just the nature of that material.   Craig Macmillan  15:45  What kind of temperatures are we talking about?   Jean Bonhotal  15:47  When we're getting over 170? I get nervous, especially if it's really hot, ambient temperature. We have to be careful about that.   Craig Macmillan  15:56  Excellent. Okay, that's useful. That's that we can keep that we can track that ourselves. Now, before we run out of time. We have time I just want to get to this topic, because I think there's a lot here. Now, oftentimes, compost is treated like a fertilizer, you say, oh, there's nutrients here. And we're doing it for that reason. But compost will do a lot of other things for you in terms of your soil.   Jean Bonhotal  16:18  Yes, and compost is not technically a fertilizer. So if I have a finished compost, it's not a fertilizer and doesn't follow the fertilizer rules. So there are rules that govern fertilizers and rules that cover compost, and so we have to be careful about that. So it does impart nutrients to our soil compost does impart nutrients to our soil, it helps with erosion control, it helps with water holding capacity, because compost acts like a sponge, and it will pull that moisture into the soil. And then the plants are able to use that when things get droughty. So we really want to use a lot of compost, if in my dreams, I would like to have three inches of compost spread on the whole terrestrial earth. Because I think we need it, it's the only way we can create or recreate our sustainable soils, our soils are very much bankrupt, we might put nutrients back on those soils, but we don't put the organic matter back on the soils, were able to take more of the corn crop. So less gets tilled in, and less of that organic matter is there so we don't have sustainable soils because of that. And compost can help us create and generate sustainable soils so that we don't have to do that. We don't have to constantly add fertilizer.   Craig Macmillan  17:49  Now that leads me to a couple of other things. So in terms of application in vineyards, it's very common to band compost right under the vines in the vine round and not in the middle. Some folks are experimenting with full on broadcasting across the whole surface, right and this has worked really well in range land contexts, which is interesting. And then there's a question about whether compost needs to be incorporated into the soil or does it need to be cultivated in what are your feelings about that for you know, a soil that's maybe a clay soil relatively dry.   Jean Bonhotal  18:23  I'll talk specifically for vineyards on this some vineyards will start their new plants their starts with like some vermiompost. And  vermicompost is a pretty popular product to use when we're putting our starts in. And these are like five year old vines that are just getting planted. And we really want these guys to go. So that will help with nutrients. It will help with soil aggregation, it will just make healthy soil. I have had a poster up before as because it says compost don't treat your soil like dirt. And that's really what we want to do. We want to compost we want to add compost so that we're not just dealing with mineral soils. And I think it's really important for us to be thinking about that way. So the adding a you know, an eight ounce cup of compost vermicompost into the holes is supposed to work very well. And a lot of people in California have actually experimented with that. From what I'm told. What their plant responses are, I haven't followed those. So I don't know. Broadcasting I've seen people more put it in the row middles so that they don't end up with a lot of bull wood in their vines because if they get the nutrients up against the vines at the wrong time, that can be problematic. So sometimes they'll even take immature compost and put that in the row middles. That keeps keeps grass down keeps weeds down, you'll still have some cover there. But then it slowly works its way into the vineyard.   Craig Macmillan  20:06  When you're referring to row middles you mean under the vine?   Jean Bonhotal  20:09  I mean, between the, the rows.   Craig Macmillan  20:11   Between the vines. Okay.   Jean Bonhotal  20:12  Yeah, I've seen that done a lot in New York, where people are using it that way. And sometimes we'll use an immature compost because that we call it a killer compost, which we shouldn't, but it kills the area, and it won't encourage the growth in the row middles. And it keeps it a little bit away from the vine for a little while, then by the next season, that's all integrated into that soil system.   Craig Macmillan  20:39  Fascinating. Fascinating. Now, what do you think about banding underneath the vine?   Jean Bonhotal  20:43  By banding, you mean just putting it right against the wood?   Craig Macmillan  20:48  Generally, just underneath the vine, not in the middle, the strategy there, I think is I'm trying to get a higher concentration, if you will, and I want to put it where the vine roots are going to be in. So they're going to be predominantly in the vine row, not not exclusively, but they're gonna be that's where the highest concentration of roots is going to be. So the idea is, hey, if I'm going to put five tons per acre on, let me put it on in a narrow band, like 18 inches, as opposed to, you know, eight feet, you know, in terms of in terms of width, it sounds like you're kind of more interested, if you would kind of recommend, you know, putting it in the middle as opposed to under the vine.   Jean Bonhotal  21:21  I don't have enough experience with grapes to recommend. So I'm not going to make that recommendation. This is what I'm seeing in the vineyard, the way the growers are choosing to actually experiment and see what is getting the nutrients to the plant at the right time. So what strategy is, is working best. Using the vermicompost in the hole that's been very productive using some of the row middles. I'm not sure about banding I have no experience with that. So I don't want to speak on that. I'm more of the compost production cleaning up the best person. You know, what, when we get the calls, this pile over here, stinks by the neighbor, then I step in and and try to get everything more productive.   Craig Macmillan  22:13  That makes sense that makes tons of sense. One other application that I do think you can speak to is erosion control. What role can compost have an erosion control.   Jean Bonhotal  22:22  We do a lot of work with compost, and I'm gonna share with you some posters that will give you simple compost use instructions. We work in agriculture, we work in erosion control, we work in urban garden gardens and farms. So there's all different possibilities with all different compost and every compost, even the compost that aren't the quality that we want for our vineyard. Every compost has a potential use, even if it's just daily covering a landfill, so that we've taken those metals or those that toxicity out of the environment, and at least concentrated it in smaller places so that maybe it can be recovered at some point when we figure that kind of stuff out.   Craig Macmillan  23:07  And the way this is working is that the compost is binding this soil somehow or is it reducing the impact of the raindrops or what's the mechanism.   Jean Bonhotal  23:17  We do both compost blankets and compost socks and erosion control. So the compost blankets we have blower trucks that can spray compost, it's a big big hose, we spray compost onto a hillside, when we put that blanket down. When the rain comes if the rain comes in, it hits the soil, it hits the soil and it makes mud and that mud starts running down the hill. And that's erosion. When it hits the compost, the compost acts like a sponge. And that sponge will just keep sucking in that moisture. And then slowly release it like a sponge will. And so the plants can use it better and it doesn't create those rivulets and the erosion that other things do.   Craig Macmillan  24:10  What kinds of rates per acre per square yard or what are we talking about?   Jean Bonhotal  24:15  For it depends on per crop. When we put a blanket down, we'll put in out about a inch blanket. So that's a visual, and we want to make sure that it's well covered I'd put one or two inches down easily, because that will start incooperating. Remember I told you about those worms? The worms will come up and start processing some of that material. And that'll only be incorporated in the soil in that way. So we don't actually incorporate we will seed put the blanket down and then we might hydro seed on top of that blanket. And that'll create cover some kind of cover crop whether it depends on our goals. We'll put whatever cover crop we might put red clover on our roadside we might put, you know, depends on where we are what we're putting in, but usually a low grow local plant. So we don't want to take you know, a plant from New York and put it in California, it's not going to produce the same way. We want to make sure that we are in the right conditions. We have the right plantings and all that and Soil and Water Conservation Districts which are all over the country. They give you guidance on what should go on to slopes. What should go into row middles, it depends on the plants though, and cooperative extension does a lot of that, what application do we need for what crop. One of the things that we are finding with soil blends and stuff when we're trying to bring in topsoil topsoil has lots of different definitions, a lot of times it's sand. Because we can't get topsoil, it's very difficult, we've used up a lot of our topsoil, and we don't have that rich earth to bring to someplace else to put that topsoil down. So we're working right now on grow tests to look at what percentage of compost should be mixed with the mineral soil, or with close to mineral soil or with the soil existing soil. And one of the things that we're finding is that we can really use in most for most crops, and for soil sustainability to build those soils, we can use about 50% compost in all of those, and we're getting really good results with crops. It does depend whether we're growing cabbages or grapes, or we really need those soils to be more sustainable. If our soils are sustainable, they'll increase the water holding capacity, you know, through the compost application, but they also help with pest resistance. So we'll have more pest resistance, because we have healthy soils, we have more competitors that are actually able to take things out instead of working in a chemical system where okay, the cut worms came in, and the cut worms are really happy to be working in. There's nothing telling them not to. And similarly with powdery mildews and some of the other diseases, we seem to have better results with having a healthy soil. So not just dust that we've added fertilizer to.   Craig Macmillan  27:32  Sure. And that makes total sense of any there are a lot of folks that are looking at this kind of a holistic plant science, plant physiology approach, which is what you're talking about. And there's a lot of exciting things going on and talking about compost being a part of it is really cool, basically at aout of advice or what one thing would you like people to know as far as their own compost production goes.   Jean Bonhotal  27:58  If you're producing compost, you're a microbe farmer. And that's what you really need to consider create a habitat that they're going to thrive in, and they'll do all the work for you. And that is my best piece of advice to anybody.   Craig Macmillan  28:14  That's great. And where can people find out more about you and your work?   Jean Bonhotal  28:17  I'm with Cornell Waste Management Institute at Cornell University. You can you can google us pretty easily.   Craig Macmillan  28:25  It's easy to find information about you. Yeah, and about the CWMI. So our guest today was Joan Bonhotal. She is the director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute. And she's also Senior Extension Associate with the Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Science section at Cornell University. Lots of great stuff is gonna be in the show notes. Again, we encourage you to look into this topic. It's exciting. There's a lot going on. Wouldn't you agree there's a lot of new science every year on this topic.   Jean Bonhotal  28:51  There is a lot a lot going on in composting, a lot going on in sustainable soil production and if we have sustainable soils, we will be able to grow healthy food and sustain healthy people. So there's just so much going on with all applications of composting.   Craig Macmillan  29:12  Very exciting.   Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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Bowling Green University’s Office of Sustainability joins forces with BGSU Dining by Chartwells for big steps in sustainability. Marketing Director Jon Zachrich takes us behind the scenes of how the compost (and corresponding marketing copy) is made.

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Integrating the "P" Word Into Everyday Life In This Podcast: Doreen Pollack took a permaculture course nearly 20 years ago and she has never looked back.  In this episode she explains how those concepts learned so long ago still influence every part of her life today.  She points out the positive impacts, not only on her garden, but on her thoughts, her actions, and especially on her daily interactions with the earth and the community of people around her.  Always eager to expand that community, Doreen shares her nuggets of wisdom and gently encourages everyone she meets to experience permaculture for themselves.   Don't miss an episode! visit UrbanFarm.Org/blog/podcast   Doreen Pollack has been a Master Gardener for over 18 years and has turned her urban lot in downtown Phoenix into a living example of what she teaches.  Her front yard now houses an edible garden where a bermuda grass lawn used to be.  Rainwater harvesting systems channel and store rainwater, compost piles supply needed amendments to harsh clay soil and creative plant locations maximize use of her urban lot. A Laundry to Landscape system uses washing machine output to water a 35-year-old grapefruit tree.  Doreen has taught hundreds of people about gardening through Master Gardeners, Mesa Community College, City of Tempe, and Rio Salado College, and has appeared on local news talking about gardening.  She loves to help people become better gardeners and stewards of the land. Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/Podcast-by-episode-titles for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! Doreen Pollack on How Permaculture Changed Her Life. urbanfarm.org/Down2EarthGarden

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KMJ listeners answer Ray's  call and call in to the show to give their opinions on human composting. A remarkably successful effort to make firearms easier to carry has swept across the country over the past 12 years. In one of the gloomiest forecasts Secrets has seen, the nation has an almost universal feeling of doom heading into 2023. Governor of California Gavin Newsom had a busy legislative session in 2022, signing many new laws that would take effect in the new year. Now that 2022 has ended and 2023 is upon us, here are some of the new laws millions of California will be subject to for the foreseeable future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you have scoleciphobia — fear of worms, you may want to skip this week's edition of Monday Morning Radio.  Host Dean Rotbart's guest, Cathy Nesbitt, is a passionate worm advocate and Canadian worm royalty. Since 2002, Cathy, owner of Cathy's Crawly Composters, has bred and sold red wigglers and European nightcrawlers by the pound to enthusiastic customers who use the live squigglers for composting — converting household garbage into nutrient-rich fertilizer. Many would-be entrepreneurs are unwilling to get their hands dirty in the pursuit of profit. The story of Cathy's success is sure to make the clean freaks out there squirm. Photo: Cathy Nesbitt, Cathy's Crawly Composters Posted: January 2, 2023Monday Morning Run Time: 51:59

In this season finale, Brie invites on biologist, philosopher and author,  Dr.Andreas Weber, to discuss his premise of an erotic ecology in his book "Matter and Desire."  Together they explore how enlivenment is a shared reciprocity of becoming as a shift from any domination paradigm inherited from empire-christianity, and how we might compost platonic ideas of incompleteness for the sake of a plenitude-driven-creativity as a catalyst for, and outcome of, that enlivenment. Andreas Weber teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and he lives in Berlin and Italy.  His latest books include "Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene" and the book most discussed in this conversation, "Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology."   If you're interested in learning more about Brie's "The Weave,"  a journey through four seasons online course on how Unknowing relates to an ecological and creative cycle, you can sign up here, or click here to watch a brief promo video about the offering.  The Weave is comprised of four seasons of courses (womb-winter, woo-spring, wield-summer, wean-fall) and will be a 2023 journey for an Unknowing cohort and include 1:1 companioning with Brie. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.      

Episode 114Join Adrian Starks on this special episode as he reflects on the last 3 episodes from the 2022 season and what he learned from each guest.Each month I will have a reflection episode that will be based upon the takeaways and lessons that I learned from the guests of that month. When we have knowledge, it is just knowledge but when we can deeply reflect on the knowledge we have attained and use it purposefully in our lives to create constructive change, it then becomes power. I had special moments with Cathy, Lesley and Kevin that connected with me in different ways. On this episode I will share that with you. Watch the full video of this episode on our YouTube channel available Saturday December 31st:https://youtube.com/@adrianstarks 

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Did you know that we send about 40-50% of our food scraps and organic material, like fallen leaves, to landfills? Landfills don't allow for proper decomposition so those materials end up releasing harmful methane into the atmosphere as they break down. To avoid this much waste, we can compost instead! Michele and Java Bradley, the founders of Java's Compost, help individuals make composting an easy addition to their recycling routine and they give us some insights as to how! If it surprises you to learn that your banana can transform into rich soil, this episode is for you!HighlightsDos and Don'ts of starting to compost.Will it be smelly, gross, and full of bugs?Why are not all things that are labeled compostable actually so?What YOU Can DOSee if your municipality has a food scrap pick-up program. Or maybe a drop-off program (ask local nurseries or farms too because they would then use the dirt)Learn to compost at home! Start here.   Get your community, school, or local farm to compost with this resource.  Look for the BPI Certification label to know if items labeled compostable truly are readily compostable.  ResourcesJava's Compost Website   Instagram Facebook  Twitter  Youtube  Watch Dirt! The Movie on Amazon Prime Want a free guide to help you become a force for nature? Get it HERE!If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, rate, and review it! This helps to boost its visibility. Hit me up on Instagram and Facebook and let me know what actions you have been taking. Adopting just one habit can be a game-changer because imagine if a billion people also adopted that! What difference for the world are you going to make today?

In this second to last episode of Season 3, Brie invites process theologian and author Catherine Keller to help explain how process might invite a more compatible paradigm to the efforts of composting Christianity, and a to a more relational and ecological worldview.   Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School of Drew University. In her teaching, lecturing and writing, she develops the relational potential of a theology of becoming. Her books reconfigure ancient symbols of divinity for the sake of a planetary conviviality—a life together, across vast webs of difference. Thriving in the interplay of ecological and gender politics, of process cosmology, poststructuralist philosophy and religious pluralism, her work is both deconstructive and constructive in strategy. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's "The Weave,"  a journey through four seasons online course on how Unknowing relates to an ecological and creative cycle, you can sign up here, or click here to watch a brief promo video about the offering.  The Weave is comprised of four seasons of courses (womb-winter, woo-spring, wield-summer, wean-fall) and will be a 2023 journey for an Unknowing cohort and include 1:1 companioning with Brie. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.    

Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and as adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. COMPOSTING THE DEAD TO PROTECT THE PLANET RAISES CONCERNS

Brie invites Dr. Bayo Akomolafe back on the Unknowing show to discuss facing the "monstrous".  Together they discuss how if we are truly to be in the business of composting christianity, then we must explore the decaying, the dying, the molding as the site of emergence.   Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D, is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.  To learn more about Bayo's work, online courses and more, visit his website here.  Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

Brie invites theologian and author, Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, to discuss the role of Teilhardian thinking in helping to compost outdated cosmologies that perpetuate disembodiment in Christianity.   Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.  To learn more about her work and books, click here. *I've received some notes about folks having trouble with the following links.  These have been updated!  Thank you for your ongoing support in helping keep Unknowing podcast going! Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

Alexandria Irons AKA Queen of the Sungrown is back on GrowCast! Today she is on the line for a NO NONSENSE discussion about... Poop. Alex extrapolates the power of the great poop loop in this episode, the cycle of consumption and excretion that powers so much of our soil's mineral content. She talks about different manures, and how and why NPK ratio differ from species to species. Alexandria also addresses how to best incorporate manures and guanos into our composting process, so that we can safely apply the microbes and minerals in these inputs without worrying about tainting our garden with things like animal hormones, dewormers, and other toxins. Alex wraps the show by talking about a tissue culture challenge that she is putting on in her Patreon, and how viroids are remediated by this specific cloning technique. *Join The Order of Cultivation - 100s of Hours of Bonus Content - Personalized Garden Support - Community Events - Members Only Discounts - Giveaways - Join The Order of Cultivation www.growcastpodcast.com/membership * *PROUD NEW PARTNERS: Pulse Grow Room Monitors, industry leader in grow room data and monitoring! Visit www.pulsegrow.com and grab their Pulse One or Pulse Plus to UPLEVEL your grow room tracking! Receive alerts, analyze data, and improve your garden with data driven strategies!* *Code growcast15 now works with grow KITS from AC Infinity! www.acinfinity.com use promo code growcast15 for 10% off the BEST grow fans in the game, plus tents, pots, scissors, LED lights, and now GROW KITS!*

Landfills! Treasures in the trash! Corporate conspiracies! Composting! An instantly classic conversation with the incredibly knowledgeable, frank and wonderful Dr. Robin Nagle of New York University's Liberal Studies! She is a clinical professor, author, TED speaker and former New York City sanitation worker and truly the best person on Earth to trash talk with. We cover what you can and can't actually recycle, sticky mustard bottles, drugs in the trash, Swedish Death Cleaning, mobsters and landfills, Bitcoin in the dump, the future of garbage and exactly how screwed we are. Enjoy. More episode sources and links at: alieward.com/ologies/discardanthropology Other episodes you may enjoy: Oceanology (OCEANS), Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS), Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK), Critical Ecology (SOCIAL SYSTEMS + ENVIRONMENT), Futurology (THE FUTURE), Disasterology (DISASTERS), Ursinology (BEARS), Eschatology (THE APOCALYPSE), Conservation Technology (EARTH SAVING),, Scatology (POOP), Agnotology (IGNORANCE), Xylology (LUMBER)Sponsors of OlogiesTranscripts and bleeped episodesSmologies (short, classroom-safe) episodesBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!Follow @Ologies on Twitter and InstagramFollow @AlieWard on Twitter and InstagramSound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam MediaTranscripts by Emily White of The WordaryWebsite by Kelly R. DwyerTheme song by Nick Thorburn