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- Composting at the Len Foote Hike Inn: Worm Bins, an Earth Cube, and Composting Toilets
- 10,000 Red Wigglers and 200,000 Gallons Saved: Composting at the Hike Inn
- How the Len Foote Hike Inn Composts 100% of Its Food Waste
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Staff at the Len Foote Hike Inn walk through three composting systems: two worm bins holding about 10,000 red wigglers, an Earth Cube for what the worms will not take, and composting toilets that save the property more than 200,000 gallons of water a year.
Sarah Janson covers how composting was designed into the property when it opened around Halloween of 1998. Kyle Richardson takes you into the worm room and shows the feeding trench, the castings, and the migration method he uses to harvest finished compost. Brandon Acuff picks it up in the native Georgia plant beds where the compost goes, and explains the clean plate chalkboard that tells guests how they did on food waste after dinner and after breakfast.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Built for Sustainability: The Hike Inn Since 1998
0:23 Three Composting Systems on One Property
0:41 Composting Toilets: 200,000 Gallons Saved a Year
1:07 The Worm Bins: Five Pounds of Worms in 1999
1:59 Inside the Worm Room: 10,000 Red Wigglers
2:39 Harvesting Castings and Migrating the Worms
3:27 Reaching 100%, and the Native Plant Gardens
4:15 The Clean Plate Chalkboard
4:55 What the System Has Meant, and Advice for Starting One
IN THIS VIDEO
What goes in the worm bins: eggshells, apple cores, and produce from the kitchen, mixed with shredded office paper and buried in a trench every couple of days.
What the worms will not take: dairy and proteins. Those go to the Earth Cube with the coffee grounds and the rest of the food waste.
How to harvest without picking out worms: stop feeding the bin for a week, let the worms migrate to one side, dig up the other side, spread it on a tarp, pull out the unfinished bits, and let it dry before it goes to the garden.
How the Inn reaches 100% food composting: two systems plus guest buy-in. Staff check plate scraps after dinner service and post a smiley face or a frowny face on the dining hall chalkboard.
Where it started: one worm bin, five pounds of worms, 1999, started by a Hike Inn naturalist. It is still running.
ADVICE FOR HOME COMPOSTERS
Every compost bin is individualized, and what works at a remote inn is not always what you would do at home. Sarah Janson’s closing point: try it, and don’t give up immediately. It is a work in progress system, and it becomes part of the day-to-day.
ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Produced for the Master Composter Course, UGA Center for Urban Agriculture. No Georgia pesticide applicator CEU categories apply to this video.
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