Re: compost TV demo

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

The studio I did this in had big sheets of artificial grass fabric  
which they regularly use for simulated out of door items - I used a  
wooden compost bin with open front on top, just put in the first  
couple of layers and stuck to tidy things that wouldn't spill far. Had  
buckets with all the other things you can use and tilted towards  
camera to pick up handfuls and show to camera. Took A LOT of worms in  
plenty of shredded paper bedding - which had the added bonus of  
demonstrating that worms like munching through shredded paper. At the  
end of the demonstration the fabric just folded around the compost  
materials after the box was lifted off.

kathryn

On 24 Oct 2009, at 04:52, Betty Mackey wrote:

> You could make a wide ring for compost out of chicken wire or  
> hardware cloth
> and  put it on top of a box lid or some kind of liner with a lip so  
> you can
> clean up easily after the show.
>
> Explain that it in a yard it would be set directly on the ground in an
> out-of -the-way place.  Make compost inside it.
>
> -- Betty Mackey
> www.mackeybooks.com
>
>
>> On a local morning news program this week, I'm doing a how-to-compost
>> demo. I'm trying to figure out a way to demonstrate this in a studio
>> setting.
>>
>
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