The Aerobic Digest
The Aerobic Digest 13: Stay out of the sun
A big move of the heaps into the shade begins, and a curious piece of plastic is found.
The Aerobic Digest
The Aerobic Digest is my composting newsletter. It comes out every few weeks when I have enough material to share and includes updates from my own rotting heaps plus musings on composting and soil health as metaphors for, y'know, life and society and stuff. When you subscribe to 72 Pete you have the option to include, or exclude, these posts. And vice versa.
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The Aerobic Digest 12: Thermo-messo-whatnow?
In this issue, understanding the thermic phases, recording the sounds made by the bugs in the compost heap, and three songs about worms.
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The Aerobic Digest 11: Building a heap from scratch
I made a timelapse video of the compost bay being filled, and ponder the best way to bring life back to some dead soil.
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The Aerobic Digest 10: Biochar and red wrigglers
My compost brings all the worms to the heap, plus a deep-dive into making and using charcoal in your soil.
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The Aerobic Digest 9: Spreading on the beds
There's something very satisfying about seeing your compost spread across the allotment, ready to feed this year's crops.
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The Aerobic Digest 8: Stinky heap
In which I detail how I made compost last year, share a rather eccentric 1939 booklet on compost making, and showcase some art about the acoustic study of the soil biome.
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The Aerobic Digest 7: Back to the heaps
I got back to the allotment after some enforced rest, during which I collected a lot of cool things for you to watch and read. Scroll down for an inverted triangle.
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The Aerobic Digest 6: A light dusting of fungal snow
In this issue: a new fugal feature film, a how-to from a Brussels kitchen garden, a vivid explanation of the soil crisis, and some beautiful mushroom watercolour paintings.
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The Aerobic Digest 5: Of rats and shrooms
Scroll down for a food scraps grinder I want to identify.
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The Aerobic Digest 4: Compost as the story of your life
Scroll down for a big question about soil contact. And another cat.
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The Aerobic Digest 3: Hexagonal composting is the future
Scroll down for a cat on a compost heap
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The Aerobic Digest 2: Like baking a cake really really slowly
Make oddkin with your compost heap