Recently I received an e-mail from a graduate student in India who had viewed the composting videos I made for Monkeysee (click on “video” above) and wanted more information on how to compost in rural areas. This is what he wrote: “Hey Bruske, I saw your videos on monkeysee and believe me they helped a […]
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If it’s spring, it must be time to start a new compost pile. Here are some of our favorite ingredients: leaves collected in the fall and chopped fine in the leaf grinder, coffee grounds from Starbucks, and something new: horse manure. For years I’ve been passing a small riding stables on our usual route to […]
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Did you know that Starbucks has a corporate policy of making its used coffee grounds available free as a soil amendment or composting ingredient? For months I’ve been working up to introducing myself to our neighborhood Starbucks and starting regular pickups of grounds for my compost pile. A fellow gardener here in the District of […]
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