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YouTube: Kick Your Compost into High Gear – Hot Composting

Our latest video walks you through the process of hot composting, or Active Batch Thermal Composting. It’s a more involved process than your average cold compost build, but it’s worth the results you get.

Christy shows you how to prep your biomass, calculate how much biomass you need, and how to build a pile. And stay tuned for Part 2 next week!

Kick Your Compost into High Gear – Hot Composting

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The “thermal” in active batch thermal composting. This is hot enough to kill weed seeds and diseases.

Resources

Let’s go back to the beginning where we learned this technique in 2015

Find out more about how shredders make a big difference in this process

This video gives more advice on how to build a better compost pile

And more about Active Batch Thermal Composting here

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Garden waste like this isn’t waste! It becomes a new compost pile. We’ll use the results in the spring garden.

Dive head first into making better compost. We’re here to help you do it! Invite friends over and make it a group activity, then share the results in a few months. It’s worth building an active batch thermal compost pile, as well as your garden community.

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