Everything about used coffee grounds for compost and fertilizer
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Composting with Coffee Grounds – Video
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…
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Gardening with Coffee Grounds – Video
Healthy soil and Plants with Coffee Grounds Given that Summer is half way through in Australia, it seemed like a good time to record the state of my garden, plants, and use of coffee grounds. Some of the plants you will see and like on the video are Tomatoes, Capsicums, Climbing Beans, Lettuce, Kale, Nasturtiums,…
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How I Saw It
Little wings beat on Spring’s tight drum petals clap This Haiku (3-5-3 form) inspired by the prompt ‘Memory‘ on Haiku Heights.
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Silent Hunters: Fascinating Garden Spiders in Lavender and Sunflowers
The post talks about noticing and appreciating the small things around us, like the different types of spiders found in unexpected places. From a Lavender bud spider snacking on flies to a jumping spider in the atrium, each spider is described with a mix of fascination and humor.
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Coffee Grounds for Lawns on Sustainablog
I’ve recently had an article posted on the environmentally focused blog – sustainablog. The article looks at how used coffee grounds can be applied to your lawn as a nitrogen based fertilizer. So check out the article and give coffee grounds a try on the lawn when you get the chance. Any cafe should be…
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Cafes Recycling Coffee Grounds – Bent Espresso
Collecting Coffee Grounds – Bent Espresso My wife started going to this cafe in Bentleigh and was going on and on about the coffee. This would be a great opportunity to complain about my wife but that will need to wait for another post. This post is about Bent Espresso. Joe is the owner and…
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,400 times in 2010. That’s about 18 full 747s. …
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Coffee Grounds Collecting at the Office – Keeping it going
Ground Coffee Delivers! Time for an update into the Ground to Ground initiative at the CBW complex in Melbourne. To the end of December, we have 40 volunteers signed up for collecting coffee grounds, which are generated by the on-site espresso machines and cafes that occupy the retail space. Each week we are collecting between…
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Cafes Recycling Coffee Grounds – Nashi
Collecting Coffee Grounds from Cafes This post is dedicated to the Nashi coffee shop located in Goldsbrough Lane, Melbourne. Nashi are one of the cafes involved in the Ground to Ground initiative, which aims to make better use of spent coffee grounds. It is a real pleasure to get a positive reaction from cafes when…
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You Consumed Me
Your love of me like fire sucked up all the air left behind a pile of ash crusted over with skin and fat my charred boots all that remain facing the direction I was running to out of your life but too late Inspired by the prompt ‘Fire‘.
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A Duty Points to Here
That way leads to a home wood and bricks kept warm by fire stoked by a woman expecting me her belly swollen with our second the first sleeping in his crib I hope he sees me in a child’s dream as tall and strong and sure laughing off the sleet and snow My wife will…