Why I DON'T compost anymore! (Easiest way to compost)

hey guys it's Frenchie pal with permaculture Northeast really excited to bring you guys a new video today as to why I no longer compost now this is kind of a an extreme for me because I've been composting for a long time ever since you know growing up we'd always collect as a family we would collect our kitchen scraps and then why even went off to college I worked all four years in the composting you know for the office of sister yeah office of sustainability there and even afterwards you know I really kind of started permaculture here at the farm we're at now at permaculture northeast and we still compost it and we've tried all sorts of things and let me be like really real with you guys composting sucks like compost don't get me wrong compost is great but composting can be miserable and what can be even more miserable is the way you're composting you know because so often and this is the way I was for a long time we're we're taught to compost in ways that are contrary to the you know how creation goes how nature is designed because like in college for example okay we would go all around campus collect these five gallon buckets of compost waste truck it to the site on campus far away from everything else because it smelled a little bit and we would we had these three wall bins and we would dump all of our compost in there and then we would have volunteers and us get pitchforks and we would would turn it by hand and it was back-breaking labor and then it still smelled and so you know they teach us add red worms add black soldier fly larvae at all this stuff and it still you would think it would make more sense you would think that it should be simpler that there should be a simpler way and guys there is now when I first started you know learning about permaculture and everything I came across a whole variety of ways to compost you know first there was pit composting you know you dig a hole in the ground and you shove all your all your waste in there and you have more surface area theoretically more microbes and worms can get to it and then it leeches nutrients into the surrounding you know ground then you can plant trees around it and they will feed off of that nutrients and so that's great but you know they tell you even in pit composting that it's a slower decomposition process okay well what's another way the basic bare-bones compost pile okay you don't have a bin you just throw everything in a pile you turn it okay you get a pitchfork you get a shovel whatever you have and you turn this compost and then you do that and you realize it starts to stink and so you research it more and you find out oh I need this much carbon this much nitrogen this much ash like this much manure and you're like gosh I have kitchen scraps I don't have much of any of that and so how do we compost in a sustainable way that actually works and that is very minimal maintenance in fact it's almost zero work entailed and that's when I come to get to the point that's where I came across the almost no composting way that I do it today and it came about it almost by accident when one day I realized gosh I have no more compost piles and the way that we started doing that kind of started with like our Ruth stout bed back here behind me and then we've got our food forests converging and food forests back there and what it was is we started these deep mulch systems so come with me for a little bit we'll step over the Fen here into our food forest and here we've got some wood chips you know we've got hay we've got a bunch of organic material of a wide range of resources like I throw sticks in here I throw weeds in here anything that is biological you know as Geoff Lawton says if it has lived it can live again so we got a little you can barely see it with the shadow but there's a heat island that we just constructed today but anyway let's get to the point garden mulch this is why I don't compost anymore and the reason is say I've got my kitchen scraps here here are playing in the background [Music] so in here let's see what I've got here a pair core tea bag some cabbage leftovers from some garlic that I planted a bunch of stuff that you might have in your kitchen well if you have a garden you don't need to compost that's the basis of this video if you have a garden you don't need to compost the reason is if you're doing your garden right I believe your garden should be covered in mulch I thought I was thinking about this earlier today I find it so surprising that people mulch their flowerbeds so that they get prettier flowers but then they'll go right into their backyard and rototill their garden you would think somewhere they would think you know why don't we just like I don't know but anyway if you have a garden and you're doing it right you should have a mulch layer of organic material of your choice I like hay because we have hay and abundance wood chips are great they take time to break down but they're great once they do a mix of everything works but anyway enough of that kitchen scraps here's what you do here's how I don't compost but decompose mix you got your hey you move it back now boil your kitchen scraps shove it under there and cover it back up boom done that easy guys I mean think about it for a second look out in the woods look out in nature what does it do it doesn't make piles of refuse in the woods like you don't piles of waste just lying about the only time we do that is when we try to you know manufacture our own composting system which we can speed up the process if you you know get into the science and you have the equipment and you do it right but why not just I mean easy enough here I have some pokeberry that I cut down chop and drop boom the easiest composting that's nature's compost right there now if I did that with the kitchen scraps you know I'd have people coming by and they're like gosh Frenchie like all your kitchen scraps are just lying around nobody wants to see that and so bury it and mulch the worms the millipedes the wood lice like all of your microorganisms are going to come up and eat that compost I up by our house I did this for a low while I took a full I mean let me see if I find it I think I tossed it in here maybe not I'm not seeing it I had a citrus peel somewhere people say don't compost citrus tell nature that like toss it in I took a full pineapple rind full on all the way around pineapple husk rind whatever it's called put it under some deep mulch that I had had for a little while there so all the organisms were already there chowing down heaven you know that's their buffet area within two weeks it like there was nothing left I gotten rid of a full acidic pineapple rind in two weeks that's incredible and so doing the easy way to it the low maintenance way if you have mulch put it under the mulch or put it on top of the mulch and keep low layering it up that works too I'll do that with sticks that way I know where they are I'll put leaves on top I mean take a look around here I've got all sorts of stuff just laying on top of our mulch here kitchen scraps I put underneath anything with a high moisture content I put underneath just because it's great to have that moisture stay in the mulch to help things break down but anyhow that's all for today's video guys thanks for checking us out when to quickly show you how to how to compost without practically any work at all so there you have it thanks for checking out permaculture North East our videos thank you to all of our subscribers out there if you haven't subscribed yet hit that button hit the like button thumbs up you know check us out and we'll have more videos coming your way catch you guys

Channel: Frenchie Powell

Views: 183,091

Keywords: Compost, permaculture, ruth stout, ruth, stout, garden, mulch, deep mulch, easy composting, composting, epic, cool, simple, real, permaculture northeast, frenchie, frenchie powell, ruth stout gardening

Id: y04TNJc_qVw

Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 06 2019