Juicer waste update

I checked out the tumbler today, WOW.  Just shy of 100 degrees, full of bugs and smells delicious.  I might make a follow-up video tomorrow. Today my mom was in town, so we were talking about composting and fixing up my yard a bit.  She hauled away a bunch of the brush you can see in the background of all my videos, and was surprised that I gifted her a kitchen compost crock. It ends up that she's helping coordinate a gardening event in the spring, and so we strategized about how to collect all the event's compostable material and market the effort to the group.  It rules being able to talk trash with my mom. Speaking of talking trash, I filmed a video today about what to do with…

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How to Turn Compost with The Compost Tumbler (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzVKln_xIc I like this guy.  I'm glad he shows the tumbler with a lot of material in it, and how it isn't super easy to spin no matter how you do it.  But it sure beats using a pitchfork to aerate the stuff. This appears to be the old model without the extra ventilation slots and the additional cut-outs where you can add your compost thermometer.  If you were going to get this one, I would look for the newer version. Either way, go Dave.  Nice work on the video!

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my belated birthday present…

Today, I woke up in the morning and peeked out in the backyard... there was a big yellow kitty litter bucket.  I don't have cats, so this could only mean one thing... juicer waste!  My compost tumbler was pretty dead at the moment as I don't have much in the way of food scraps...but this should fire it right up.  I took the temperature before I put in the scraps: 70 degrees. Let's see what happens!

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