My Home Composter

Archive for October, 2009

• Update on the Kitchen Composting Container

  Posted by Home Composter on October 5th, 2009 under Kitchen Compost Bin

  Well, we’re just not sure. so we’ve decided not to purchase a kitchen composting container just yet.  I think we will find that we want something in the kitchen, but the vote here is to wait and see if it’s not just as easy to carry any food and paper waste straight out to the [...]

• Composting Tips, Tutorials and Tools

  Posted by Home Composter on October 3rd, 2009 under How to Make Compost

  Florida’s Online Composting Center is a terrific resource for  composting tips, tutorials and tools. There is a comprehensive list of items you can and cannot compost at http://www.compostinfo.com/tutorial/CanICompostIt.htm. Besides listing yes and no for each item, it explains how it will affect the compost. I also like the Virtual Composter interactive tool that lets you [...]

• Kitchen Compost Container

  Posted by Home Composter on October 2nd, 2009 under Kitchen Compost Bin

  I keep talking about this, but haven’t decided what to do about a kitchen compost container to throw food into before taking it out to the worms. Since the Worm Factory is arriving on Wednesday, I decided I maybe needed to start saving some food waste so that I would have something to feed the [...]

• Buying Red Wigglers for the Worm Bins

  Posted by Home Composter on October 1st, 2009 under Worm Bins

  I had to take a deep breath once I realized that I had ordered my Worm Factory 360 and that meant that I would soon need to have worms available to make the thing work! According to the instructions that I read online, I’ll be buying Red Wigglers for the worm bins. They are available [...]