If you want some WEAK compost.
All jokes aside, when I turn these piles. The bacteria give the meat NO TIME to sit around and get to know everybody. I’ve had meat consumed in a pile in as little as 3-4 days. Anybody here is south Louisiana?
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Lol gnarly!
Little ozone depletion mounds
Looks like a bbq
This goes against everything ive ever known but i am intrigued lol
I’d imagine the smell would be something wild
Composting from br, so not really south LA, but LA nonetheless!
i’d plant the pineapple tops
I’ve been salmon fishing. The heads, guts, backbones, tails, and fins all go in the compost. My compost is steaming even when it’s 30C (85F) outside. It will be gone in a couple of days, and all those nutrients will be in my garden next spring…
I mean, pee on it for sure
Gotta smell like straight ass but do it for the microbes.
I put meat in my compost, never had a problem except once in a while a drumstick bone makes it through.
I just enjoy the bones that end up around my plants.
You should put a disclaimer here. Something about how composting meat improperly can release methane, which is obviously bad for the environment. A lot of people shouldn’t try this.
Had an entire pig disappear in a week. Insane nitrogen boost. I don’t do it regularly but it absolutely works, fish as well…
I’m in SELA, been using a tumbler and dat thing stays HOT. Still gonna give it until October but I think I’ll have a batch ready soon. The one thing I’m not sure about is whether to let the finished product sit spread out on a tarp or something for a few days before putting it in my beds…someone referred to that process as “curing” the compost? What do you think?
I put small amounts of meat in my bucket compost. They get real hot and is unrecognizable within a few days
I compost meat. I usually have it dehydrated and ground up. Mainly for space
Organic meat from deer and bison and other wild animals provide more nutrients for plants compared to other techniques
Anyone here PISS ON THEIR MEAT?
I’m curious – why are you tossing so much raw meat and what was wrong with those yellow peppers? The rest looks like you made a few fruit salads over the week. But I don’t know why you’d throw out chicken or turkey without boiling it for broth first. And those peppers looked whole and unblemished. Was there something wrong with them?
I go by David the Good’s philosophy of composting everything.
That’s a questionable volume of meat. How did you even get that much?
when someone with a tractor logs onto r/composting 😍✨🥰
I think that recommendation was born from the fact that most people have small, cold piles, lacking sufficient browns, or turning, or moisture, or whatever else. Scrap meat becomes a biohazard and a pest magnet in most people’s piles. A big enough, hot enough, aerated enough pile can take care of just about any organic matter, including whole livestock carcasses (although the bones themselves might need breaking up to decompose any further)
On a related side note, how is commercial blood and bone processed between leaving the animal and packaged into a bag?
Ive never understood why meat shouldnt be composted (aside from pests/smell). bioactive environments like bioactive things
I compost everything. Meat and bones occasionally get pulled out by possums and raccoons if they’re not covered well enough, but hey, they gotta eat too.
Whoa! Awesome pile 🤘
South Louisiana here!
How is the smell?
Oooo weeeee that stank is rising off that pile!