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In the booklet that came with the bin (from Metro Nashville recycling, fairly cheap!) it said compost bins don't stink and you should put it in a close and convenient spot. The only really good spot we had was back by the garage though, but it's still relatively convenient.
Several loads of leaves, grass and plants. Threw it all into a windrow to be mixed with a front end loader. Mistake #1, didn't add moisture as I built it. Mistake #2, put it where I didn't have a ready water supply.
This is cell 2 on the left with cell 1 just to the right. The cultivator has spread the material out in cell 1 but it has only been worked over once.
Everything thoroughly composted even the shredded paper which covered the materials. The white clumps seen on the compost is the remainder of some latex paint.
Tub here was the first design I experimented with: vents only at top requires periodic mixing to maintain good humidity.
My daughter, Racheal discovered the Lomi Compost System and bought one for me. She's used hers and is very impressed how fast it works on all sorts of food scraps. I will use mine once it gets colder outside since we throw our veggie scraps into the big compost pile behind the Hoop House. This thing can produce compost in 18 hours. Amazing.
Last of the yard waste material spread out and worked in. Hopefully this will be decomposed enough by spring to plant into.
At Wowo campsite, which has got to be one of the loveliest campsites anywhere.
For more info and bookings see www.wowo.co.uk
This is about 15 gallons of pure, rich, organic compost. We put this in the vegetable garden as fertilizer. Read more.
A shot from our College Park Composting Facility. We received 10 tons of rotten food waste from Whole Foods, where we mix it with wood chips and leaves to make healthy soil. We use a front end loader to do this work.
7DOS ... Wk4 ... Down to Earth
This is my kitchen compost bin. All the organic waste from cooking is added each day and when it is full it goes into the big compost bin until it breaks down to compost.
Compost which is rich in nutrients is used as an additive in gardens and agriculture at which point it comes back to the earth, so completing the cycle.
I wanted to try and make a compost tumbler using only reclaimed wood from a shipping pallet. There is enough wood from one 42x42 pallet to make the stand - just be careful with the nails!
The rain barrel was donated (thanks to a wonderful friend!)
I bought the caster wheels from harbor freight for about 8 bucks.
attn moustache house residents past and preset: the year of composting finally paid off! about 2/3 of the current compost pile was this perfect decomposed matter. it is now in the garden.
not looking forward to (potentially) living on a 3rd floor with no garden...
Chad made me a compost bin. I still need to put a lid on it, but I've been dumping food scraps into it. It's been a great feeling to do.
Every couple of weeks or so I turn them over, unstacking them, setting them up next to the old location, and shoveling the contents over. This keeps the oxygen in the compost bin and speeds up the decomposition. In between turns, I bury kitchen scraps in the compost for the red wiggler worms I added. Then I keep them covered with fallen leaves to cut down on flies, which usually are not a problem, but the leaves also help add carbon. The worms love the scraps, and I get some really great compost out of the deal.