Good luck and enjoy presenting! If you are willing and allowed to, could you share your full slidedeck afterwards? Or at the odd chance of it being recorded, please share the video!

Really cool that you are doing this for your local community =)

Nice pile there! I'm guessing this Composting Day is a (US) national thing? A quick search shows 'Learn About Composting Day', is that the one?

Please tell us more. Over here (Netherlands) we do have a 'national compost day' in March, where you can go and get compost from the municipality. Great initiative, though the quality of compost is questionable as it's the end product of whatever the municipality collected in the green bins over the year. And people put in, well, everything. So, it is definitely not a 'Learn About' day, while we could use that for sure over here in my experience.

Sounds good to me. I wouldn't sweat it and just give it more time. You have a somewhat decent balance of greens and browns? Not trying to compost a humongous amount of orange peels?

Just to be sure, your pile is directly on the actual soil? Second, how are the moisture levels? In my pile, I noticed an increase in worms when I things were wetter than they were before. Depending on your setup that might be tricky to control. But moreover, time. In the first months I hardly spotted any worms in my pile. After say two years, there are plenty. Never added them myself, they just found the party.

Please watch out, there supposedly can be very toxic things in a heap in certain stages of the composting process. I'll try to find out proper info and sources when it's not hours after bed time but please watch out.

While I don't have hands-on experience with such a cold climate, two things popped in my head. First, maybe you are better off with one big pile. More volume means the heap will be able to keep higher temperatures. The snow on the cover might actually be a very good insulator as well. Second, and this might be the number-nerd in me, but I'd actually track the temperature with a compost thermometer. I guess you won't be turning the pile often, and for sure not in winter when it's covered in snow, but that way you can keep track of what your pile is doing.

I hope someone has better, actual practical tips for you, but keep us updated on this one!

Perfect, there we go then! I guess we have an actual moderation team now!

Hey KeraKali!

I noticed in https://slrpnk.net/post/375281 that there was some miscommunication, this community is not one of those older inactive ones. However, if you still like to become a moderator for c/Composting, say the word! It's not a busy job so far, but it's always better to have multiple people anyway.

I've only been on mastodon for a couple of days, but yes it is active, and depending on what you're after it might we worth it. For me, it seems to be a nice mix of keeping up to date with things and people I already know, and at the same time stumble upon (related) things I did not yet knew about.

You will have to put in some effort to follow people/accounts/hashtags, but that's kinda fun. Just try it out!

Perhaps I'm missing something here but that headline is quite misleading, isn't it? The NY residents have to separate their green waste. The fact that that wasn't the case already surprised me, but, this sounds like a big win.

"Community" as the other replies already mentioned, but how do we abbreviate that? "Sub" worked well imho, but does "com" have the same ring to it? Any better suggestions?

Experimenting with a very modest bucket, which resembles a small continuous flow through setup. I've cut out the bottom and put some thick wiring from side to side, mimicking the pvc or galvanized steel tubing you often see folks use.

My bedding is a mix of shredded cardboard and rice hulls. I think the whole setup is two months old now so I haven't harvested yet, nor am I sure this is really going anywhere.

(Also, shameless plug perhaps, but I've started !composting@slrpnk.net for all types of composting including vermicompost !

Edit: I just noticed you actually already crossposted from there, but for some reason Jerboa does not show that here for me)