Tumbler Sighting
I love this one! I wonder how old it is. Rusty metal barrel with plastic sides, metal stand and clever air vents. It's pretty large- If it's kept up, I'm sure it does a good job making compost.
Compost Tumbler Sighting!
Have you ever seen one of these compost tumbler models before? This cute little compost tumbler was spotted in Charlotte, NC. Before I opened it up, I had a feeling it would be filled with sludge, due to what looks like a lack of airflow design...where are the holes? More on that in a moment. Look at that cool little marking on the lid to denote whether the unit was open or closed...nice. While it snapped into place quite easily, I wonder how many times I can do this before wearing it out. If the locking mechanism failed, the tumbler would become useless as it flips end over end by design. How were the contents? The material in here looked pretty nice...crumbly and smelling good. The only airflow design was…
Guide to Composting in the Winter (article)
Have you ever checked out the website earth911.com? I've checked it out plenty when it comes to finding recycling avenues for anything imaginable...but I never thought to see if they had any material on composting. It turns out that they do, and I've been asked a lot about starting a compost pile in the winter. While composting isn't easy in the wintertime, it is doable. Let's see what earth911 has to say about it in the article below... Just as you started to get into a solid groove with your compost pile this past summer and fall, churning over plentiful amounts of that beautiful garden gold, BAM! Winter hits. But don’t throw in the shovel just because a white blanket of snow or a hardened sheet of ice now sits…