I want to suggest my most useful find... It's called "wiggle wire" for holding greenhouse plastic. I have used it so many times to hold tarps etc on so many projects... (boat covers, porch enclosures etc.) They would be perfect to hold the landscape fabric to the posts and bottom of your set-up. They are reusable and are super strong, so easy to use... check them out!

thank you . we are brothers of the soil!!

Great to see the kids helping

Love the red devons. We just calved our second home grown red devon today. I'm gonna be tinkering with a similar composting system. Thanks for the time and information, lotta good stuff here 💪

its 4pm. where did my day go with all the research to perfect easier and better systems? so, i had to cry like a girl (because i am), when you began quoting the Word. Thank you. I needed to take some refreshment!

Попутно можно получать тепло для отопления, ведь там в процессе температура 60-80°С, а также горючий газ. У нас в Минске Зеленстрой построил большую станцию компостирования, куда свозят всю листву, скошенную траву и ветки со всего города, на 70 тысяч тонн. Также есть станции компостирования поменьше. Производят грунт и продают.

In this entire discussion about microbial life it is important to note that microbes are going to stay at the capacity of the soil so just adding microbes to soil will not increase them. The levels will quickly drop off as they quickly die but the carbon/organic matter has to be increased to support them if you want the levels to stay up. Adding the compost will do that. But making teas and many products with high microbial levels and adding them will not because they die off very quickly. I love this method of making compost and appreciate you sharing your version and improvements. 🙏❤️

Love little girl absolutely getting after the wet leaves in the Else dress!

You have some amazing fellow workers there, that's the right kind of "child labor" lol. I miss being that young.

I cant wait to set a couple of these up when i get back down to GA!! I think with our heat and warm winters it might even speed up the process a bit. I wonder how i can run water lines from the well, and also if they should be put in full sun? So much to think about haha. Another great video Jason! Cant wait to catch up on watching!

This is so cool. I want to see a combination of Johnson-Su and biochar to create a static long-lasting soil amendment.

I've seen systems built like yours. I think a gamechanger is a system that's easier to just shovel out the stuff on the bottom when it's done and keep throwing stuff in on the top. Because of this I just bury pipe with the compost and have air input that way, with it directly on the ground. (not my invention either, large scale does this)

that batch looks amazing ! how to transfer all those microbes and fungi it to the soil is what is so important to me. the tools to do it.

Great video. Thank you for sharing! This has got some exciting possibilities for the future.

This was such an informative video and I loved how you broke the numbers down and tested it! Just started our first compost that we'll do the Berkeley method on but I've been doing my research on the Johnson Su Bioreactor for the future. Also love the scriptures! Subbed 👍🏻

Diego Footer is propably the first on KZfaq with the center mesh hole.

Based on your $$$ calculations, it's worth building as many bioreactors as you can in a season. If you need more material, you can collect leaves and grass from neighbors and or put the word out and maybe they'd bring their leaf debris to you. I've even seen some KZfaqrs snag leaf bags each time they go to the city and bring back as many as they can get their hands on.

I love that. For healthy people.

Very fascinating video! Thanks for sharing your results. Have you looked at all into the static biochar + compost stuff? It seems fairly new still too but apparently the biochar can speed up the composting process by nearly half while making a richer compost. I am dying to know now if using this method along with biochar would speed up the process and generate insane fungal ratings!

I have one setup for about 15 months that was wood chips. Living in north Alabama. I didnt add water or the worms, but am going to check the micrometer out if you have a link :)

Wow the results look amazing. And this is 100% leaves? The result looks like nice black soil. So the leaves break down and it becomes what looks like soil. And we can use as much as we want and keep the rest in the bioreactor for later use? As long as it still has fresh air and is watered/heated. Thanks for sharing the video. I'm gonna try to follow exactly what you've done here.

You are right

Thanks for a great video! Content and commentary spot 0n..!

I’m doing Bible in the year and we covered this verse today!

Hey dude great vid. Check out vitamin C for removing chlorine and chloramine. That’s what I used in my aquaponic gardens

Does the compost not heat up enough to keep from freezing?

You ever thought about purposefully inoculating your compost with wine cap or oyster mushroom mycelium? Ive started doing it with my spent goat bedding and it has accelerated the decomposition tremendously. As an added benefit, during the cold season the fruits from the mushrooms pop up and gives us another source of food

That’s great! Thank you for sharing.

Dude, did you ever think to take an extract o your compost and blend it with biochar, to extend the coverage of the compost and give a place for the microbes and fungi to hang out for years to come and provide their blessings on future crops?

The girls were kicking it hard

How cold are your winters and if you shred the leaves do you get better results?

Re: our previous discission on JSB and freezing- I found this reply Dr. Johnson made re: freezing to a question in the comments to the below video... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbWcibdn3MmnqI0.htmlsi=A7oDO_Qc4_-s7ah2 @frankfeske7867 Does a harsh cold winter affect this process? @davidjohnson1910 Yes, it will. Please keep it above freezing and around 70% moisture content. Happy composting!

Now if you had a collection box for the side feeder for the worms where you can collect the worms out of that thing and add them to the next one disabled would probably reduce your time not sure though as theres no soil in the bin to start and I'm assuming it would be entirely too expensive to use say 10% Coco coir to give them a fresh start until they munched everything below lol

What about cardboard around the sides, so moisture would be held and overtime would brake down over time and create an air space? To avoid all the work your girls did, could You water with each layer of leaves added?

We started mulching wheat and rice straw. And wigglers started multiping, here in pakistan. 😢

Awesome, awesome video. Thank you..Subbed

Do you find that you have a lot of "juice", water, extract coming from the bottom of the bioreactor? Does it drain onto your land? If so, can you capture it? Does it have a benefits?

How are you keeping the worms from freezing over-winter outside? A JSB is a big stand up worn bin. The worms create the magic. Are you insulating & heating those bins sitting outside somehow? Built to spec & kept from freezing, the material should be clay-like textue which is a function of worm castings that looks more like this below. (Color is irrelevant.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLmWmqyanLPIl6c.htmlfeature=shared

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Awesome. Did you add the worms?