dirt factory

Something really inspiring occurred in west Philadelphia recently - the opening of the Dirt Factory, a community composting facility located at 4308 Market St. I truly believe that this concept/design will become a template for others to implement throughout the city, and hopefully throughout the country.  What does it do? The site is run by University City District and it provides a place to dispose of fallen leaves in the area, to then turn into compost for its gardens.  Even better, it's open once a week for anyone in the neighborhood to drop off up to 5 gallons of material. Two Earth Tubs (pictured above) were installed on the site and can process an enormous amount of material, creating high quality finished compost in short time. As you probably know,…