Composting and Soil Carbon Sequestration

[CheekFam]

worm towers they are good and bad… okay lets start with the good side

the good side

worm towers are easy to access compost towers that are cheap and efficient and easy to build.

alright time for bad side

the bad side

PVC is what worm towers are made of PVC stands for polyvinyl chloride which is toxic to your environment

[etcetera]

I looked into maggot farming and composting meat. Let’s start with meat. While a lot of sources say you shouldn’t none of them say that you can’t. There are ways to compost and recycle meat waste. To summarize the meat can’t be easily accessible to animals or they will try to get to it. It can be composted (hot) or fed to maggots which in turn are then fed to other things. While it is possible to compost it in a bokashi bucket those use anaerobic bacteria to break down their material. As such I wasn’t sure about including them here however given a specific mention of them, I am assuming that when hot composting they do not play a pivotal role in the decomposition.

I also looked into maggot farming and those searches yielded decent results. There is one video that says that you can feed the maggots primarily meat and the other is about black soldier flies which I’m not sure can be cultivated here effectively. I will include a link to the black soldier fly wiki as it is an interesting read.

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFH-FYCSSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pRYluPGQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSr-FRe5fl4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens

Here is an article that seems to summarize the issue of composting meat nicely: https://gardenprofessors.com/meat-in-compost/