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Compost Pail
Adding your food waste to a compost pail as a part of your daily routine makes home composting a snap. Once a week add dump the pail into your home composter and before you know it, you’ll have nutrient-rich compost. It’s a great way to reduce the amount of trash you add to the landfill [...]
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How To Make a Backyard Compost Tumbler
If you are looking for plans for how to make your own backyard compost tumbler without spending a lot of money, check out this video that was posted on YouTube.com. It’s not as small as the Envirocycle Compost Tumbler, but not much larger than the pickle barrel that is used to make it and if [...]
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Bamboo Kitchen Compost Container
Have you seen the Norpro bamboo kitchen compost container? I don’t see any reviews on it yet, but it looks gorgeous. It has two charcoal filters, is made of natural sustainable bamboo and hopefully it will measure up to other Norpro kitchen compost containers that we have seen. I could definitely live with one of [...]
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Indoor Composter
An indoor composter solves several common problems for many home composters. For one thing, winter is not conducive to composting. Cold temperatures and snow don’t do much for a hot composting heap and who wants to haul waste out into the cold anyway. An indoor composter also adds a convenience to composting that encourages less [...]
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Learning From My Worm Bins
This week, I’ve been learning from my worm bins. Maybe I should say I’ve been learning from my worms through trial and error (nah, let’s call it trial and improvement). I added the second worm bin to my Worm Factory 360 about five days ago with the intention of layering the “ingredients” in the tray [...]
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Home Composter News on December 2, 2009
Cutting down waste over Christmas
December 2, 2009
- During the holidays more than ever, we tend to overdo everything from food to gifts and wrapping paper. This article is a good reminder to reduce, reuse and recycle during the holidays.From the Table to the Trash – WDIO-TV
December 2, 2009
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My Home Composter Favorites
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Composter Reviews
You can learn a lot from reading composter reviews. I probably learned 1/4 of what I know about composting from the reviews I read when researching which composter to buy. Today I was looking at a review of the old model Worm Factory and read that someone gets a quart of leachate out of it [...]
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Compost Aerator
The only gadget that I learned about at the home composting workshop I attended was the compost aerator. If you have a compost bin rather than a worm bin, you can use it to turn the compost. You stick it straight in like a spear and when you start to pull it out, it’s wings [...]
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Composting Shredded Junk Mail
My worms seem to be doing a pretty good job composting shredded junk mail and it’s the main “brown” ingredient that I feed them. Since there are no bad smells coming from my Worm Factory 360, I assume all is well. What is amazing is how much paper there is in my life. I recycle [...]
Envirocycle Composter
The Envirocycle Composter
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