ccc workshop - part 2: small-scale composting systems/processing bmps [jeffrey neal, howard...
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Best Management Practices (BMPs) at
Howard University Urban Garden Community Compost Cooperative&
Rhapsody Condo Worm Composting
Jeffrey NealILSR and Loop Closing
USCCC 2017 - Cultivating Community Composting
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Loop Closing and ILSR
Existential Threat
• Rats are ubiquitous in DC, especially in areas with restaurants
• Keeping them at bay incorporated in every element
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Loop Closing and ILSR
BMPs (and then what really happens)
• Threat Mitigation• Site specifics• Feed stocks• Turning• Curing• Sifting• Data• Signage• Help• Worms
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Site Specifics
• DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR)• Urban Farm Plans - Compost Knox 3-bin system• “Squat” at Howard University’s Urban Garden
Before After
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Loop Closing and ILSR
Site Specifics
Browns staged
3 bins and 2 curing corals
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Site Specifics
Curing corrals
Finished compost staged
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Feedstock• Browns are gold• Leaves• Neighbors bag, collect bags, HU or DC deliver• Compost Cab• Parents house in the DC suburb of Reston
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Feed stock
• Rat resistant storage• Leaves: Whole vs Shredded or decomposing• Changes volume ratios from 2:1 to 1:1
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Feed stock
• Wood chips• Add 1:4 wood chips to leaves• Stage and add the overs
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Feed Stock – Adding Food Scraps• All food scraps go straight into bin 1, no staging• Bin 1 has scale, bucket, and shovel• Thermometer left in all 5 piles
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Turning• Use mixing bins and tarps
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Turning• Check moisture, hand squeeze test• Add water• Tarp, too
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Curing (oops)
Rats tracks
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Curing
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Sifting
FinishedOvers
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Data
• Google Sheet• Weights• Temperatures• Moisture Content• Notes, including bad things
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Data
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Testing
• Germination test• Conduct lab test complying with USCC STA
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Signs and Set Workdays and Hours
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Partner or Perish (burnout)
• Co-Managers – Valerie Onifade, clone her!• ILSR• Compost Cab, LLC• Howard University• Rhapsody Condo Board• Washington DC, Department of Parks and Recreation• Eco-City Farm• Urban Farm Plans• Neighbors, Community
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Worm Composting in a Building
• Condo of 160 units, pilot project with 10 units• Residents divert plant-based food scraps from the
landfill or waste water treatment plant• Residents stage food waste in the trash room
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Worm Composting in a Building• Select individuals transfer food to the worms• Worms staged in the stairwell bottom landing• Out of the way; accessible; climate controlled by the earth;
and available in most mid- and hi-rise buildings
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Back-up Slides
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Photos- Bin Lid Rat Resistance
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Photos- Biolayer built-in
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Photos
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Capstone Project – Condo Loop ClosingExtended Project – Halo Green Garden Compost Bins
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Photos
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Opportunities and Hurdles– Use the compost for potted plants, a community
garden, or returning to farmers– Board approval delay of 4 months: Lesson learned is to
state what I’m doing vice ask for approval– Water access at Halo Green Garden at Howard– Processes needed: how, inclusion, metrics, growth– Telling my own story (not what to do)– We are not alone!– Lesson I need to learn: Stop going at it alone!– Return DC compost to farms providing DC’s produce?
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Next…• Greatly increase local composting, excess on hand• Sandy Lerner, MS '81, Co-Founder of Cisco and Founder of Ayrshire
Farm: “Problem with selling to farmers is that farmers have no money to buy anything”
• Think local, disposable income of DC residents• Everfi model: Banks fund web-based instruction• Umbrella support for diverse network of composters: QC, testing,
marketing, scheduling, etc• Local laws remove blocks to diversion, limiting food waste to
landfills pending?• Farmers market farmers, organic markets, grocers, food
distributors?
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Condo Back-up Slides
– Start with 7 bins that are 2SF, estimate 7#/week rotated on a 2 week basis. Needs 30 SF to start.
– Laydown area for bins: 90 SF in 3 stairwells, 100SF in the parking garage, ???SF in storage rooms
– Can grow to at least 10 fold to 70#/week assuming worms eat their body weight weekly
– Space to deliver to and from via loading ramp– Provide extensive signage and email notices– Start with 10 motivated residents, grow from there