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Composting Step 3-The Waiting Game

Composting Step 3-The Waiting Game

After you have measured out and organized your compost there isn’t much left to do to it….depending on the amount of waste you have has the greatest impact on how long it will take to completely degrade. In order for mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria (bacteria that love hot temperatures) to work the internal temperature of the compost needs to warm up a  great deal. One of the research…

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Ontario Biology Day 2016

Ontario Biology Day 2016

Yesterday I went to the Ontario Biology Day Conference at Ryerson University in Toronto and presented a poster on what we have done with our compost research. This conference was really cool in the sense that it was all undergraduate research that was being presented. We went to a talk session that was all about water- some students did their fourth year Honours Thesis projects subjects such as…

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What Goes Up Actually Does Come Down

What Goes Up Actually Does Come Down

Lately I’ve been noticing a bit of a trend in my posts, they are very fact based. While a lot of people have been telling me that they like how informative everything I’ve been saying is I’m going to try a different approach today. Rather than telling you how to do something or what makes something else concerning, I’m going to tell you a story. This is a true story about trial and error and…

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Composting Step 2-Organizing your Organic Waste

Composting Step 2-Organizing your Organic Waste

I’ll admit that this seems sort of silly at first, but organizing what is going to go into your compost bin actually helps speed up the degradation process and will impact the nutrients that are returning into the soil. This is really important if you are interested in soil health or just don’t really want to look at that pile of rotting fruits and veggies for an extended period of time. A very…

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