The Compost Coach
Make Compost, Build Soil And Grow A Regenerative Garden - Wherever You Live!
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.
The Compost Coach is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold. Kate is on a mission to empower readers to understand the small steps they can take every day to look after the environment and live more sustainability.
The book is pitched at the home composter, including people who live in apartments and houses with or without gardens (yes, you can compost without a garden!). Kate helps the reader to rethink their waste management and teaches them how easy it is to divert food scraps and household carbon away from landfill. She unravels the technicalities of soil science, talks through the building blocks of a robust compost system and busts a few myths along the way. Charming illustrations, how-to photos, and Kate's warm, entertaining voice complete the package.
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Sustainability educator Flood explains in her comprehensive debut guide to composting that the practice "introduces beneficial microbes" that extract minerals from soil and make it more fertile for plants. Expounding on what equipment to use, Flood suggests that Bokashi bins (small, airtight containers) are ideal for apartment-dwellers while wooden bays, or "boxes," are best for those with large gardens that generate lots of organic waste. She outlines the pros and cons of "slow" vs. "hot" composting, noting that the former, which involves leaving waste to decay over time, is hands-off, but can take up to a year to decompose food scraps, whereas the latter, which involves piling on large amounts of waste at once and then turning over the contents to keep them aerated, requires more work but can produce soil in around six weeks. Accessible explanations of the science illuminate the composting process, as when Flood notes that adding worms to one's pile helps the composting process because their digestive systems break down food matter into "luscious poo" that attracts bacteria, which help with further decomposition. There's an abundance of useful tips (proper drainage reduces the smell from compost containers) and the exhaustive list of compostable materials is a boon (citrus slows decomposition, but hair is okay to add). This has everything readers need to get started on their compost pile.
