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Clay McGowen
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Most of this was done at Base Camp using the ~3gal buckets from the Fisher Price House. In addition to those three, I also started Ruth Stout Composting at home with my ~4gal trash can and extra bowl of goodness. I’d say roughly a dozen gallons overall
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Bucket 1
Bucket 1
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Dumped
Dumped
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Covered
Covered
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Bucket 2
Bucket 2
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Inversion
Inversion
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Saw dusted
Saw dusted
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Bucket 3
Bucket 3
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Camouflaged
Camouflaged
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Bucket 4 At home
Bucket 4 At home
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Who’s hungry?
Who’s hungry?
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Soil life
Soil life
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Bowl 1
Bowl 1
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There it goes!
There it goes!
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Adios!
Adios!
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 - a photo of the bucket of kitchen scraps next to the opened mulch
 - a photo of the empty bucket and the new mound of mulch
 - repeat for second bucket
 - describe the volume of your bucket(s) and how full they were
Lots of buckets have been generating with the events on so I have had lots of opportunities to do this!
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Big bucket of scrap
Big bucket of scrap
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Bucket here
Bucket here
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The dump
The dump
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Covered
Covered
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Second bucket
Second bucket
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The spot
The spot
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The dump
The dump
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The cover
The cover
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3rd bucket
3rd bucket
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The dump
The dump
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The cover
The cover
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4th bucket
4th bucket
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The dump
The dump
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Empty
Empty
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The cover
The cover

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The first image shows that my kitchen scraps bucket is about the same size as a 9 US quarts cooking pot.

1 bucket = 9 US quarts = 2.25 US gallons
2.25 US gallons * 6 buckets = 13.5 US gallons
=> 6 buckets it will be to make sure I reach the 10 gallon goal!

Every bucket ended up being quite full (last two buckets were from in quince season ) and I put them all in a closeby but different spot.
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showing the volume of the kitchen scraps bucket
showing the volume of the kitchen scraps bucket
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bucket 1
bucket 1
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bucket 2
bucket 2
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bucket 3
bucket 3
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bucket 4
bucket 4
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bucket 5
bucket 5
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bucket 6
bucket 6

I'm doing it for the squirrels, dude.

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Jason Tuller
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Here is my submission.  I may have went over the 10 gallons.  Corn cobs end up being kitchen scraps when your friends give you five bushels!
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Laura Quick
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Our family filled a 10 gallon bucket with food scraps. I put half in one mulched spot and half in another.
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First hole with full bucket
First hole with full bucket
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First hole covered up and half a bucket left
First hole covered up and half a bucket left
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Second hole with half a bucket
Second hole with half a bucket
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Second hole covered up and empty bucket
Second hole covered up and empty bucket
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Note: Laura, I do not think that bucket is 10 gallons. Can you provide pictures of another bucket being filled? or otherwise prove your bucket is 10 gallons?

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I did this at scale during my garden bed prep, and its all working out really well.  I'm able to do no-dig gardening henceforth ...  I just add stuff on top of what is there already.
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removing weeds and saving worms in the white cup
removing weeds and saving worms in the white cup
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add logs, sticks, and compostables to the pathways
add logs, sticks, and compostables to the pathways
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remove the tags
remove the tags
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cover with woodchips to make nice walking paths
cover with woodchips to make nice walking paths
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rinse and repeat thru rest of garden
rinse and repeat thru rest of garden
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in future, simply add grass, leaves, n chips as needed to keep paths built up
in future, simply add grass, leaves, n chips as needed to keep paths built up

row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

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Note: yeah! awesome! Where did you get 50 gallons of apple scraps!? lol

 
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