Create AMAZING Compost in 18 DAYS

[@ZZ_Trop]

Coffee grounds kept me composting all winter! I seriously love the stuff. Top dressed the lawn with coffee grounds, my thoughts were that the N would help break down the thatch layer as well as give the grass a boost come spring. It worked, lawn looks great and I have a flipping ton of compost.

[@nowonmetube]

Coffee grounds kill earthworms.

[@somegladmourning443]

I LOVE your pallet setup for the compost bins! This is the best composting video I have seen!! You are amazing. Thank you for posting.

[@johnduffy6546]

wormies love those coffee grounds! 160 degrees is impressive!

[@kennethmitchell2785]

Anne, you’re adorable. I love your videos and your humble approach. I’ve learned things from you and also learning with you. You’re so open and honest with all your experiences. You’re a pure soul

[@jenniferr5061]

I'm in Tucson, AZ and as you can imagine, it gets hellish hot here! I do have to water my garden when I grow in the summer. Some years we haven't gotten rain for months on end and gardens here just can't survive that. I try to grow year round (cover crops usually in the summer) to keep my soil in good condition and my worms happy. I use a version of your lazy gardening method and have to water soooo much less and my garden is so much happier, best of all if my watering system fails, my plants don't just die which is what happened before if one day of watering got missed! I love your green landscape in your videos!

[@TheSamba37]

Compost burns are real! I blistered my hand on a compost thermometer I had left in the pile.

[@thebusybrownangel5829]

Your videos are awesome! I love your style! I just did a re-do on my compost last week. I got lazy, stopped turning, no heat, ants moved in, plants growing, etc. Hopefully I’m back on the right track. Thanks for all of the info and inspo! 💚

[@vonormykirk]

LOL the donkeys are always up in yo' business! 😂❤️❤️

[@LukeofAllTrades.]

Definitely need to work on upping my compost game! I had one good pile a few years ago, but it's been pretty lame since. Amazing how fast it works when you do it right, thanks for putting together this video. I love the reusing of the pallets!

[@cathysandercock8675]

Well done! Excellent presentation on how to create what I call “black gold”!

[@123WorryFreeGardening]

Exactly what I have been looking for. I have pallets and i have stuff to compost of course!

[@gardenfunwithjane4897]

Thank you for the great video on composting I learned a lot I've been composting for a few years I did the lazy composting and I don't turn it at all but if I wanted to get it faster I need to start turning it

[@teresamccoy596]

Here it is!!!! ❤❤❤🎉

[@fiddlefordscatalog5443]

We were told reduce, reuse, recycle in school at a young age

[@SawdustmakerLori]

Love your garden and that compost is like black gold! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Happy New Year to you and your family from AZ!!!

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Thank you Anne for brightening my day. Great info on the composting. Have a happy New Year.

[@jenniferaho1169]

Yay! I have extra pallets! I’m going to do this😃

[@rustyspygoat4089]

The secret to a good compost is just add a LOT of organic material. It gets the microbes to expenentianaly multiply at an insane rate. That really speeds up the decomposition rate. Also the more "greens" you use, the quicker and hotter your pile gets. Luckily for me, I live in vietnam and my wifes family work in the local market. I get a minimum of 10kg's of vegetable scraps each day. I use rice husks (which is readily available) for my browns. A lot of home gardeners strugle with the amount of organic material that they can obtain. Kitchen scraps + garden waste is just not enough to produce a sufiecient amount of compost for all your garden needs. My advice is to outsource "free or cheap" material. Brainstorm and think of where you can get a lot of free organic material. It really makes the difference! When you have a humongous pile, nature will do all thr work for you!!!!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Preach!

[@rxdrj8409]

@@AnneofAllTradesso I’m new to composting and thanks to your videos I now have an active pile going (although not as hot as yours). My question is, what do you do when you have a bunch more organic material/scraps to add to the pile and it’s not time to turn it yet? Do you then lasagna it up and add the brown material to the top then cover with more browns?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

@@rxdrj8409 yep! That’s exactly what I do, but every time you add to it do remember that it will set the rest of the pile back, so sometimes I’ll just get a new pile started and just keep adding to it

[@rxdrj8409]

@@AnneofAllTrades thank you!! I didn’t expect a response so quickly. I have learned SOOO much from your videos and my “lazy” garden that I started this year is doing awesome right now! I haven’t had to water nearly as much which has been really nice. I’ve worked my butt off getting it going, but hopefully it’ll all be worth it since I feel like I’m starting off on the correct foot (I’ve done no till before but was told not to mulch so it didn’t work nearly as well as it is so far already this year). Do you plan on having any online classes at all? Your website has also been helpful. Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge!

[@antoyarmo7675]

Great knowledge and advices, as always. Fantastic mind, planning, energy, humor, marketing, design, etc.. Do you have any defect?

[@aggiekromah6254]

Thank you you are very hard working good job👍♥️

[@scottsmith8546]

Happy new year Anne & Fam~

[@tass8495]

You rule! Thank you

[@teresaslaven-blair1689]

Your videos are great, I learn so much from them. I have one request though for all of us outside of America. When you're doing your editing, can you include metric conversions on screen? You used degrees F and feet during this video, and I find having to stop the video and go look up the conversion a barrier for watching. I also know there are some people who will not watch videos that do not include conversions (whichever way they go). But literally everything else is amazing about your videos :)

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Thank you for the support! I’ll try to incorporate that as much as I can- in this video here though, those are approximate measurements (3 foot tall pile is basically a meter tall pile) and if you buy yourself a C compost thermometer, it should have the “active” “non active” indications on it, so again those specific numbers aren’t nearly as important as understanding the general concepts :)

[@smithfamilyhomestead1515]

Kinda missing you!! You ok? Cheers from the great state of Arkansas!!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Hey! I'm back as of this morning! I was sick for the last month but on the mend now! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3y2Y6t3dpqAn9k

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Happy new year to you and yours

[@SteveC38]

Great Video, Happy New Year!

[@Justme-ko5ms]

Great video with great info. Thank you. ❤

[@timbenhardt7644]

Great info on the compost. Can you do a little video about you mini donkeys? My wife is wanting one or two and would like what your experience has been with them.

[@rollsroyce7325]

Thank you Anne for the tips and tricks 👏👏👏👏👌👸🏻❤

[@munozlittlefarmjourney]

I have to try this. We just bought some land and it hasn’t been use as a farm for a while. Thank you

[@AnneofAllTrades]

You’ll love it! So easy

[@morgan79347]

Love that truck.

[@lisaconnor9655]

I would love to have donkeys running around while i work! I probably wouldnt get much done! 😂

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Sounds familiar 😂

[@_Merica_USA]

Another great video Mrs Anne 👍

[@jackthompson5092]

Great video Anne.

[@PatriotGinj]

I love your jeans. What brand are they? Btw, I love your videos and your vibes! Happy people are the best. ❤️

[@gimiter7463]

6:57 i really like that car

[@BrimwoodFarm]

Awesome vid and just what I need to inspire me on these short winter days. What brand was the nail gun you were using? Looking for a good cordless one.

[@someday_maybe]

Milwaukee FUEL by the looks of it

[@peace4peaceful]

While you're waiting for good compost to develop. Dig a hole/ trench and put in all your waste. Put in some grass, straw then cover with cardboard. Cover cardboard with mulch. Dig a hole, fill with compost or your choice of soil and plant into it. When your compost is ready you can use it on your beds. Just something to do whilst you compost wastes.

[@KettleCamping]

Great video! Very useful. Thank you!

[@davidwalters9462]

If you can access *sawdust* as opposed to wood chips, it takes less than a week. Try it, it can't hurt.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

I have, many times- sawdust is great, but regardless of the medium, with traditional methods, 18 days is about as fast as it’s possible to create properly composted compost

[@davidwalters9462]

Ah, OK. Really what sawdust does is to make *soil* not just compost. Worms seem to love it. You are doing great. Watch you had, no more accidents please!@@AnneofAllTrades

[@rivkaelqayam8717]

Hi Anne, Thanks for your beautiful and helpful videos! I want to try composting in a bucket. Can the bucket bottom/sides/lid serve to lock the good stuff inside instead of brown stuff? In this case, I assume I can use much less brown stuff, and just layer it like lasagna? Would you drill holes in the bucket or the lid? Any other tips on bucket composting would be appreciated ! Thanks!

[@ibm450]

cute!

[@johnnysmythe7767]

Ahhh a Milwaukee girl 😊😊🥰 lol

[@faithsfarmlife1424]

I have been wanting to do this my compost is just a pile now

[@JenniferWailes-dk2qm]

So what does the ongoing process of composting look like?? What do you do with kitchen/yard/garden waste while your current bin is processing? I'm in zone 5 and with kitchen waste being ongoing and yard/garden waste different amounts at different time of the year?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

The method shown here is only for when you want compost in a hurry. On a day to day basis between the pigs and chickens there’s very little waste, but I usually have at least one “slow” pile going. I have a bucket of sawdust from the woodshop or woodchips from the mulch pile and every time I’ve got a bucket of scraps I’ll add it to the slow pile and cover it with sawdust. Then once it gets big enough I’ll start stirring it as shown in this video and start another slow pile.

[@biggbear]

Oliver stepped up to the outside of the pile at the wrong time lol

[@Handlehere256]

Can I add moldy fruit to my compost? I know there’s a difference between decomposing and rotting….if I put rotting produce in my compost bucket before I knew better, can it be saved?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Absolutely! Anything that was once alive or came from something alive can be composted. Check out my composting for beginners guide video to clear up any questions you might still have ;)

[@JohannesJunkJournalLife]

Is there a list of greens and browns?

[@stickysat]

Good job ! :) Imhe though, coffee grounds make the compost's PH drop dramatically...

[@AnneofAllTrades]

I don’t worry very much about PH- coffee will lower it, lime will raise it. As long as you are adding a variety of things to your compost it should balance out just fine.

[@stickysat]

@@AnneofAllTrades Glad it works fine for you... :) Been growing and making compost and earthworms composting for nearly 40 years but i guess i learnt nothing... :)

[@AnneofAllTrades]

@@stickysat I doubt that! 40 years is a lot of growing time 😉

[@stickysat]

@@AnneofAllTrades May seems a lot but sure went by fast... :) Didn't started composting and making ewc 40 that long ago but fell in love with the soil and the miracle of plants around 10 yo... after agri school, it's been my life, along with fishing... :) Learnt that i know nothing and that every answer generates hundreds of new questions... :) Everything's changing so fast (especially this last decade...) we have to adapt all the time and nothing can be taken for granted anymore... Anyway, best of luck and lots of happiness in your life ! :)

[@AnneofAllTrades]

The more we learn, the more we realize we have still yet to learn. The initial growth and plateaus, and pushing through them to keep learning is both what keeps us humble and what ultimately makes us better learners and teachers in the long run. This is exactly why I so often refer to myself as a beginner, even in fields many other folks might call me an “expert” in. After 12 years of gardening and composting, I am well aware I’ve only just begun.

[@jkwchannel1703]

Inside Out: the roof becomes the floor, the walls become the inside, the insides become the walls and the floor becomes the roof? Don’t we need some greens on the inside?

[@PD-we8vf]

Only possible in the summertime. Not the winter.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Actually, that is a myth, easily debunked by the fact that there is currently snow on the ground and my pile is 140 degrees. The heat in the pile has nothing to do with external temps, it’s generated by the composting process itself.

[@tclodfelter8789]

"Tip" for your wheel barrel (LOL) ... get a slightly longer axle and put two tires on it on the outside! It will be a heck of a LOT HARDER to tip over with a full load!!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

I have a two wheeled wheel barrow and I hate it 🤣 call me old fashioned, but I like the single wheel because it’s way more maneuverable.

[@tclodfelter8789]

@@AnneofAllTrades okay...You're "Old Fashioned"!! LOL

[@Chercher4848]

Discovered your channel yesterday & look forward to watching more. Very informative & love your energy. You’re amazing!

[@nicolem376]

I’m guessing no poo unless it’s cold like rabbit poop? Or not even that?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

If you’ve got a handle on temps and the science, you can put any kind of poo, even meat in the pile. When one of my large animals passed, I didn’t want any tiny bit of him to go to waste, so I composted him and he became some truly beautiful soil to grow in.

[@nicolem376]

@@AnneofAllTrades ok ty. I was concerned about the fast turnaround time not being long enough. I recently found your channel & am really enjoying it. Thanks again!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

@@nicolem376 that is a good point and I kind of missed it in my first answer- when composting larger items and more complex organic matter like meats, bones and certain manures, it may take longer than 18 days and you may need to be more intentional about monitoring the correct composition of the pile, making sure to keep temperatures high throughout the composting process to make sure that your end result is actually safe to use on your garden. This video is a simple primer on the Berkeley method, if wanting to compost more complex items I’d do some independent research before jumping in ;)

[@nicolem376]

@@AnneofAllTrades Ty

[@artstamper316]

@@AnneofAllTrades Wait. What? You just laid the complete body on a pile of carbon and then covered with lots more carbon and that's it? 🤔 How many years did that take, I wonder?

[@andrewpaterson4672]

You keep saying you're not tech savvy. You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

[@AnneofAllTrades]

I think it means I’m not good at using technology. Which is true. Beyond checking my email and taking videos of my dogs with my phone I’m at a loss. What do you think it means?

[@andrewpaterson4672]

@@AnneofAllTrades I think it means anyone that has a much content for year as you do, host a professional website/store, has at least a passing knowledge of technology. When you get stuck you have Adam to help.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

@@andrewpaterson4672 We could argue about semantics all day, but I have a farm to run ;) Compared to someone who grew up 20 or 30 years before me, perhaps I'm more savvy, but when it comes to what I do for a living, I spend an inordinate amount of time frustrated and beyond my scope. I have had to figure certain things out that specifically serve the needs I have, but beyond that, I'm pretty useless. Adam has a full time job and is extremely busy, and is kind enough to help me sometimes, but more often than not, I'm on my own.

[@andrewpaterson4672]

@@AnneofAllTrades All that said your followers and I think you're pretty awesome.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

@@andrewpaterson4672 Well shucks. Thanks Andy.

[@martinmartin691]

1 month to compost.. sorry

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Look up the Berkeley method, developed at Berkeley college. They’ve got a little science program you may have heard of 😉

[@jackthompson5092]

Great video Anne.