Regarding the language_not_allowed and losing your comment in Jerboa, I had the very same thing happening to me today. (Jerboa v0.0.31 I think, I updated it somewhere today to v.0.0.32 but that was after losing that comment).
As I'm on a different instance, it does not seem to be something specific to your instance. Besides that, I'm puzzled about how we should approach these language settings too.
I've had some success with searching for specific comment URLs indeed. The reply part I don't know for sure.
Neat! I might experiment with horse manure in the future, as I have a convenient source for that anyway. And you might be very right about the danger of giving too much of anything, I might have killed my previous bin with too much (wet) food and no proper escape route. That, and/or a combination with some very hot weather we had around those days.
The good thing is, my three bin system features lots of worms when a bin is in the later stage, so I could simply restart my worm bin with worms from there. I should make some photos from both setups indeed.
Interesting: on slrpnk.net (so where the community lives) I see '3 users' and a whopping '17 subscribers'. On lemmy.ml, the community shows '3 users' but only '2 subscribers'. And it doesn't seem that being a mod gives you any more numbers or insights whatsoever.
I had to lookup 'coppice' and 'pollard', didn't expect to learn something new within the first five posts on this community. If you know of any nice introduction video on the topic, please post it to the sub.
I'm not familiar with the details of setting up a Lemmy instance, but can't you already get the new instance up and running with a modified /etc/hosts instead of waiting for the DNS to be updated? That might reduce your overall downtime a bit.
Experimenting with a very modest bucket, which resembles a small continuous flow through setup. I've cut out the bottom and put some thick wiring from side to side, mimicking the pvc or galvanized steel tubing you often see folks use.
My bedding is a mix of shredded cardboard and rice hulls. I think the whole setup is two months old now so I haven't harvested yet, nor am I sure this is really going anywhere.
(Also, shameless plug perhaps, but I've started !composting@slrpnk.net for all types of composting including vermicompost !
Edit: I just noticed you actually already crossposted from there, but for some reason Jerboa does not show that here for me)
Gaat die ook op zwart maandag ja? Héél interessant. Ben benieuwd wat er allemaal overhevelt van daaruit.
I'm currently doing a three-bin system for the kitchen scraps and yard waste (with some added horse manure to get things going whenever I fill up a new bin). That one actually gives me some amount of compost I use in said yard again.
Three months ago I also started a wannebe-Johnson-Su like bioreactor, so a cylinder shaped pile of shredded leafs and wood chips. It's only 80~90cm in diameter and roughly 1m high so nowhere close to the actual Johnson-Su design, but it's what I could make with the leafs/wood and the materials I had lying around.
Lastly I've got a very small vermicomposting setup, a bucket with the bottom cut out and some thick wire going back and forth for the bottom. This is more of a small scale continuous flow setup, which I have not harvested yet. Not too sure whether this thing is gonna work out, to be honest.
No worries, hope everyone and everything is alright over there. Thanks for the update.
It’s also helped me with some instincts/waste-aversion that might have lead to hoarding. it turns out I don’t actually need to keep things, I just don’t want them to get thrown away.
This sounds very familiar. One of our solutions was to donate a lot of stuff to thrift stores, though that does often not work for raw materials like wood. The next hurdle I need to overcome is to actually try to build something with such material and become more handy, as now I often feel I'll just waste the material because I lack the skills. But I guess that even failing would be good use of such material.
Sort of related: I think it was Charles Dowding (a no-dig pioneer, lots of nice videos on YouTube) who is in favour of spreading almost-but-not-completely ready compost on his beds so the worms can finish it off and spread the castings in the process. That would mean you'd need a 'normal' compost bin/heap to add your scraps to, and there is little actual tangible involvement with the worms, so it may be less fun than what you are after here.