How I Make HEAPS of Compost in My Backyard (Feat. Chickens)

I could watch the sketching all day

Looks great! Oh to be young and energetic again.

I appreciate how concise, focused, and clear this is. There are some great gardeners on YT, but a video will be titled “How to start a no-till garden” and then turn out to be a guy wandering around his garden, talking about whatever he stumbles up on the way. It’s not helpful at all when you want to learn something specific. Subscribing!

Great to find some awesome Aussie content 👌 😊🌱

The A-frame is a fantastic idea! Thank you for sharing. Also, as a fellow architecture comrade, your sketching style is beautiful 👌

Like your system, just a couple of tips from an old fella who's been inI.Horticulture for 40 years. You can buy online an Oregon bushcutter blade called a mulching blade. It's got downward wings that chop. Not for the faint hearted but fantastic for shredding prunings to 25mm to compost size, and unlike an expensive mulcher can handle wet material. And way better than trying to use a mower. A mulch fork is also handy if you've got the strength. It's like shovelling with a front end loader . Finally, when it comes to turning your commy try a post hole auger. You can get battery ones these days that are really light to use. It's super quick once you get the action right. Personally l don't make much commy these days. Just get the mulching blade on my Sthil kombi brush cutter. Shred the crop residue and rotary hoe it all back in.

Great video and really enjoyed the summary at the end. Thank you!

Beautiful video Ben and partner in the garden, your sketches are fabulous, as is your garden. Wishing you all the best for your career! I hope you get to help other people build useful and beautiful spaces as you have done xx

Great system. Multiple systems. Well thought out.

It's been a long time since your last video, so it's great to see you back. Really appreciate the local content, I'm in the SE suburbs. I've just started composing a pile of woodchips layered with horse poo & old straw. It's only a couple of months old, so a way to go yet. Thanks for the video 👍

Nice video. Very interesting. I couldnt bothered to keep moving the compost heap around though. I let nature do all the hard work. Vermicomposting. I supplement my compost with loads of leaf mold. A great soil conditioner even though its not high in nutrients. I make a fertiliser compost tea and so far my plants, shrubs and trees are responding well.

Great to see your set-up Ben, looks awesome. Great editing as well; love the diagrams and behind the scenes footage, you're a trooper! 😂

Love it bro! Love your vibe too thanks for sharing!

Excellent presentation.

Agreed the no till mob are a pain on the butt!

Thanks for an excellent and practical video

amazing quality content keep it up

Это очень интересно и дает понять, как можно использовать куриц в подготовке компоста. Это не всегда поможет, если их нет. Но мне нравится Ваше желание разобраться во взаимосвязях различных процессов. И я рад, что Вы этим поделились.

Excellent video. I have started collecting cow dung and donkey droppings in the bush near where i live for just over a month now. I collect anywhere from 2 to 6 buckets a day within a radius of 500m from my home - there is way more further afield. I have a small pile composting already(with kitchen scraps), which I turn once a week and keep it covered with a spare roofing sheet. I intend to start another composting pile next week. In the meantime, I make cow dung compost tea which I use for watering my garden once a week. i will add some leaves to the 2nd compost pile, and possibly add rabbit and chicken droppings too.

That is really great