Pedal Powered Compost Turner (Youtube)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlKln5wGuA Pretty cool video.  Being a bike nerd, this actually seems feasible to me in some weird way. While I don't expect the average person to gut an old bike and build a frame to turn a massive amount of waste, be sure to keep this in mind.  I think pedal-powered gadgets are the wave of the future, to be honest...whether for turning compost or more likely used in applications for generating electricity, it's going to gain momentum. Check out my favorite pedal powered peeps here: http://www.wheelygoodsmoothies.com/

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Compost in 14-21 Days & How to Make A Tumbler Bin Composter (Youtube)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqfmJKby234 The music in this video makes it worth watching alone, let alone the great footage showing the design of the tumbler.  Super nice work here.  14-21 days is pretty awesome if you can pull it off, but don't get upset if it takes longer.  Really though, who cares if it takes a week longer?  Are you really that hard pressed to have your compost finished in record time? Back to the point, this video rules.  Make the time to work on this project and it'll be well worth it.

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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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