Coffee Grounds Help With Composting

Another opportunity to record some of the things I’ve been doing with composting coffee grounds over the Australian Summer.

By mixing coffee grounds, lawn clippings, kitchen scraps, rainwater, leaves, cardboard and shredded paper, I am achieving compost temperatures in the range of 65 Celsius (150 Fahrenheit).

At those temperatures I can churn through 50 kilos of organic material a week, and return it all back to the Earth in 2-3 months.

Compost temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius solely on the addition of spent coffee grounds to the compost, and I recommend you make some room for them, and you will be well rewarded.
+Shane Genziuk

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5 responses to “Composting with Coffee Grounds – Video”

  1. […] What started out as the simple disposal of used coffee grounds into some compost bins ended up with a lesson about how it all works. […]

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  2. […] type of material is 15:1, which makes it higher in nitrogen than used coffee grounds (20-24:1), and lawn clippings […]

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  3. Just found this link also, making compost out of coffee grounds is such a good idea. And you went and did a video about it!

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    1. Well thanks again Beka, glad to have you on-board with the whole coffee grounds compost initiative.

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