FREE ON-FARM COMPOSTING DEMO Reduce waste ○ Improve soil organic matter and nutrient cycling ○ Improve disease control
Friday December 12 Atherton Gold Produce 435 Northey Rd Tolga 8.30am-11.00am With lunch Devaney’s Bananas Woopen Creek Rd Mirriwinni 2.30pm-5.00pm With a bite after Registration is essential: Call Fiona 0488 702 203 or Terrain 4043 8000
Gerry Gillespie, Resource Recovery and City to Soil Project Demonstration workshop using on-farm waste as a resource All welcome!
Process on-farm waste simply and efficiently
Make inoculant on farm—cheaply and cleanly — includes recipes
Improve soil organic matter with your own compost
Diversify your business
Adapting the City to Soil Process The organic farm waste is spread on the ground, wet down and a Lactobacillus-based inoculant added. It produces no odour. It is then piled up and covered with a waterproof grain cover or tarpaulin, which enables control of biology, temperature and moisture in the compost pile. The material goes through an initial aerobic phase with high temperatures, then slumps back down in temperature and the process then becomes fermentative. You can produce a very high quality compost in around 12 weeks. If left to mature for longer, it will improve its humus levels and general quality. The end product has consistently met AS 4454, the national Compost Standard and the NSW Biosolids Standards. The City to Soil compost process is now used exclusively by Armidale City Council to process green waste. All information for the City to Soil project is freely available at http://groundswellproject.blogspot.com.au
Or email fiona.george@terrain.org.au Made possible through Terrain NRM’s
Regional Landcare Facilitator Project