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HowExpert Guide to Composting
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HowExpert Guide to Composting

Learn Everything About Bins, Compost Use, Decomposition, and Organic Waste from A to Z
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 6/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Composting

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 3h 8m total length

  • Chapter 1: Getting Started31:51

    Select and set up your compost bin—enclosed, worm, tumbler, or freestanding—to begin turning kitchen scraps into rich fertilizer while choosing indoor or outdoor setups.

  • Chapter 2: What to Compost32:11

    Balance nitrogen-rich greens with carbon-rich browns to create rich compost, and learn what to compost—from vegetable and fruit scraps to eggshells and coffee grounds—while avoiding meat and dairy.

  • Chapter 3: The Compost Process23:02

    Master the compost process by layering greens and browns and aerating to introduce oxygen. Different bins, from tumbler to worm and free-standing, shape mixing, moisture, and the final sifted compost.

  • Chapter 4: Different Methods of Composting24:30

    Explore Vermes composting, Buzkashi fermentation, and mechanical and commercial methods, analyzing setup, benefits, and challenges for home and city-scale waste recycling.

  • Chapter 5: Uses for Compost\17:39

    Explore how finished compost enriches soil with nutrients and moisture, improving gardens, lawns, and edible plants. Learn compost tea basics and methods, plus ideas for donation, selling, and heating uses.

  • Chapter 6: Why Should We Compost?17:00

    Learn why we compost: reduce landfill waste and greenhouse gases, enrich soil with slow-release nutrients, save money, and enable hands-on stem learning.

  • Chapter 7: The History of Compost33:24

    Trace the history of composting from ancient Akkadian and Roman practices to modern methods, highlighting the indoor method by Sir Albert Howard and global adoption.

  • Conclusion8:18

    Choose the right compost bin for your space, balance greens and browns, and aerate to speed hot or cold composting, then sift finished compost for healthier gardens.

  • About the Expert0:57

    Meet Chelin Huang, a dedicated composting expert who maintains a vermes bin in a New York City apartment and educates kids about worms, decomposition, and growing vegetables.

Requirements

  • None

Description

If you want to learn about composting, then get “HowExpert Guide to Composting.”

Maybe you have just learned about composting or maybe you knew about it but did not know where to start. This guide is your go-to guide to learn all about composting and what it will entail. With easy to digest chapters and informative sections, you will learn:

• How to choose a compost bin

• Whether to put your compost bin indoors or outdoors

• Hot composting versus cold composting

• What organic material to compost, including “greens and browns”

• Waste that should not be composted

• How to begin adding and layering the organic waste to your bin

• The importance of aerating your bin

• All about what to do after your compost is done decomposing, including sifting and testing the compost

• Different methods of composting, from using worms to fermenting

• Commercial composting and how composting works on a large scale

• How compost benefits your garden and helps with yard work

• The role compost plays in providing nutrients to plants

• Benefits that compost provides for humans

• How compost can save the environment and save you money

• Why compost can be an important tool in STEM curriculum and for bettering yourself as a person

• The history of compost, from methods used by ancient civilizations to early composters to composting nowadays

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About the Expert

Keilin Huang is an avid composting enthusiast and passionate about educating others on the wonders of the natural process of decomposition. She currently has her own vermicompost bin in her New York City apartment that’s filled with worms whose names all start with W. In her free time, she acts as a volunteer for her local community garden, which has an enclosed outdoor bin with an aerator; in addition, she also helps out at the New York Botanical Garden’s Children’s Garden, where she helps kids discover the magic of worms and growing your own vegetables. When she’s not composting, Keilin enjoys reading fiction and graphic novels, biking around her neighborhood, traveling by train, and writing snail mail.

Who this course is for:

  • Composting Enthusiasts

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