Aquaponics is Fun

Compost Screen...
Made an alteration to the compost screen by installing a larger gauge (right) mesh as the smaller gauge (left) was clogging up far to much which made the process rather long... I screened 3 of the drums yesterday & the end product still comes out fairly fine with no large "clumps"... This makes it great for breaking up the soil structure in the beds... I also think that it will make great bedding for the worm farms...
I am going to screen the next batch of manure before I add it to the barrel to see if I can get a more consistent "cooking" of the blend... Being horse manure Im not to worried about burning the plants more so trying to cook any worm drench out that the horses may have been medicated with that can kill our little fellas... It is also a good time to add the Blood n Bone & cracker dust to help feed the bacteria that aid in the process...

Worm Farm...
The old farm has had a composted horse manure blend in it for a month now & was harvested today...  We got at lest double the amount of worms back out of there compared to what was added as well as many, MANY more eggs than we could of anticipated... It took about a month for them  to "work through" the compost so was most impressed with that...



We came across something we have never seen before so made a clip (sorry guys)  as well...


A batch of compost blend that I screened yesterday was added to the farm & the ½ barrel we found a while back... A makeshift cover has gone on the ½ barrel for now but that should be remedied during the week... I think we will be putting all the composted horse manure through the worm farms from now on & the big blue barrel can be the food scraps...

Have a great one all...

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