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Can You Use Compost As Cat Litter?

You may recall that I recently had an article posted about whether or not it's a good idea to compost your cat litter. This time, I'm flipping it around to "can you use your compost as cat litter?" Let me remind you that I don't own a cat...I merely deal with them crapping all over the side of my house and I'm basically okay with that. Working with waste all the time means I don't smell much of anything anyway. Here's a photo of the gifts that the alley cats leave for me: I have a feeling these cats would have no problem using compost in their litter box, if they had one. I have not observed these cats seeking out my compost in the (fenced off) backyard to sit…

Ecomposter: Alien-Themed Fun For The Whole Family

From time to time, I like to look around online for new composter designs that companies are selling. Enter the Ecomposter. This is definitely one of the weirdest models I've seen in quite some time: ecomposter alien shipThe Ecomposter, besides having a rather uninteresting name, seems to have garnered some attention...by the looks of it on Amazon, most of it is negative. Hardware that rusts right away, a pain in the ass to assemble, aeration tubes that get in the way of emptying the unit, the list goes on. I guess I'm not all that surprised. At first glance, I imagined it would be huge, although the specs read just 32" cubic inches. I prefer to "fall into my tumbler" to spin it easily, as opposed to something that's high…

My Life With Worms by Bentley Christie (review)

I've been following Bentley Christie's Red Worm Composting site for quite some time now, just reading over the material and watching videos to prep myself for suddenly owning 1,000 pets. Other than the first night where nearly every worm in the bin tried to escape (I realized there weren't enough air holes!), it's been a breeze maintaining them and watching them multiply. His expertise certainly helped me become a professional in short time, and I thank him for that. His writing style is a trip, and I've been begging him to write a guest article for this page for quite some time (feel free to harass him). When he told me he was near completion with writing a book, I was thinking to myself "finally, the end-all be-all worm…