Bookmarked, gonna need to find some to time properly check this out, thanks for sharing!

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.

Main mod here! I won't dispute I have been less active over the last couple of weeks (holidays and other reasons), but I think /c/composting is not doing that bad. It's not high-traffic, but there are posts every few days and I'd say it's not anywhere near dead.

When I created the community, I thought about how much I should post and opted to hold back to see how many other compost enthusiasts would come out of the woodwork. Perhaps I have been a bit too conservative, though?

So, the words I definitely didn't remember while in bed too late at night: Tremorgenic mycotoxins. Please note that I am in no way an expert in any of this, but as a fellow dog-owner I got very cautious when I read about someone actually losing a dog which ate from a compost pile. I found a source (link below) which highlights a few points, amongst this one that might be important:

"Mold growth, particularly Penicillium mold, and production of mycotoxins in food (walnuts, dairy products, pasta), animal feed, or food waste (compost) can result in tremorgenic toxin production. "

My compost pile definitely contains some of the above, but a pure garden waste based pile might not.

Another point worth highlighting as 'vomiting' is mentioned in this thread:

"After ingestion, the onset of clinical signs can occur in a few hours. Toxins ingested in lower concentrations appear to cause fine muscle tremors lasting for hours to days, whereas large tremorgenic toxin ingestions can cause seizures and death. Vomiting can be the first clinical sign and may help limit the severity of the intoxication. "

I suppose the size of the dog and the amount they ate from a pile all come into play here. Again, I am by no means an expert on any of this, just a (overly?) concerned dog owner. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this, and enlighten us all. If we promote composting in this community, and there is any danger to any member of your household whatsoever, I feel we should inform people and err on the side of caution.

https://www.msdvetmanual.com/toxicology/mycotoxicoses/tremorgenic-neuromycotoxicosis-in-dogs

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.

Fun little game. Also reminds me that I proooobably should check on my real bin.

This is how it's done, nice! Already thinking about expanding to two or three bins?

I was wondering, is there a specific reason for the cardboard on the bottom?

For f-droid you can consider adding https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/ to the tracked repositories. New builds might be available sooner there.

Maybe the "Crust of Rust" series by Jon Gjengset? (Mobile is giving me a hard time, but search for that on YouTube)

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.

Could it be the language settings? Did you deselect 'Undetermined' in your profile perhaps?

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!

No way, I think my colleague mentioned this couple just the other day saying I 'd be interested in their stuff! Thanks for the link!

Dang this is some cool stuff, haven't seen the concept before. So you made that yourself?

Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

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.

Seen it a couple of times, I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, something like: whenever your instance starts federating a community on another instance ---likely because another user on your instance just subscribed to that remote community--- the server starts pulling in posts from the remote instance. Those are simply (wrongfully?) injected at the top of your page as they flow in.

Ha! I was trying to figure out what happened with that cross-post because of the different username, but apparently you can cross-post other people's posts then. TIL.

Beautiful! Do strawberries ripen a bit more after you pick them? In your basket I spot some not-really-red ones, and now I'm wondering whether I should start picking mine as well.

(edit: on second thought, it might be the photo and/or my laptop screen... But I guess the question still stands.)

Yes, you created an account on one instance (in your case sh.itjust.works), but you've posted this question to the Jerboa community on another instance (lemmy.ml). And I am reading this from yet another instance, slrpnk.net. That's the magic of the fediverse!

But that also means there are several moving parts and places where things can break or misbehave, hence my question because I am also still figuring this all out =).

Good question. I have no clue how much content/traffic we would get on such a topic. We could do c/Trees but maybe c/Arboriculture is more accurate?

Let me have a look at which communities are already there now, maybe something fits.

Please consider making a dedicated post for that (or any other similar) video if you find it, sounds like it deserves its own place and that way more people might find it.

Managed to find a copy of Sprout Lands, and reading the synopsis I see 'living hedge' mentioned. In season 2 of Clarkson's Farm (Jeremy Clarkson trying to run a farm) there's a match organized where folks make traditional living hedges, something I had never heard of but found fascinating. So thanks for this recommendation, sounds right up my alley.

Which community is that exactly, and from which to which instance?

I'm still not sure how all of that works, there was a post describing the same(?) problem a day or two ago: https://reddthat.com/post/1976

That'll work when typing things online, but not in f2f conversations. I thought about 'com(m)' which will work, typed out in certain contexts, but I think that sounds too much like other words in several languages including English to use in speech. But if you prepend 'lemmy' to that it's quite a distinguishable word that sounds like 'lexicon': lemmycom(m)!

There's a lemmycom for that.

FYI no toot resulted from my reply here, at least not one I can see on Mastodon.

At first I was a bit puzzled as to why one would post such a message 'here', but I guess including a link to a Lemmy community in a Mastodon toot results in the creation of a post on that Lemmy community.

Neat stuff! (And now, let's see if this results in a toot again...)

"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?

Sort of related: I think it was Charles Dowding (a no-dig pioneer, lots of nice videos on YouTube) who is in favour of spreading almost-but-not-completely ready compost on his beds so the worms can finish it off and spread the castings in the process. That would mean you'd need a 'normal' compost bin/heap to add your scraps to, and there is little actual tangible involvement with the worms, so it may be less fun than what you are after here.

Regarding the language_not_allowed and losing your comment in Jerboa, I had the very same thing happening to me today. (Jerboa v0.0.31 I think, I updated it somewhere today to v.0.0.32 but that was after losing that comment). As I'm on a different instance, it does not seem to be something specific to your instance. Besides that, I'm puzzled about how we should approach these language settings too.

I've had some success with searching for specific comment URLs indeed. The reply part I don't know for sure.

Neat! I might experiment with horse manure in the future, as I have a convenient source for that anyway. And you might be very right about the danger of giving too much of anything, I might have killed my previous bin with too much (wet) food and no proper escape route. That, and/or a combination with some very hot weather we had around those days.

The good thing is, my three bin system features lots of worms when a bin is in the later stage, so I could simply restart my worm bin with worms from there. I should make some photos from both setups indeed.

Interesting: on slrpnk.net (so where the community lives) I see '3 users' and a whopping '17 subscribers'. On lemmy.ml, the community shows '3 users' but only '2 subscribers'. And it doesn't seem that being a mod gives you any more numbers or insights whatsoever.

I had to lookup 'coppice' and 'pollard', didn't expect to learn something new within the first five posts on this community. If you know of any nice introduction video on the topic, please post it to the sub.

I'm not familiar with the details of setting up a Lemmy instance, but can't you already get the new instance up and running with a modified /etc/hosts instead of waiting for the DNS to be updated? That might reduce your overall downtime a bit.