I've wanted to do this for a long time but finally got it started. This is composting on a small scale which works well for us with the kids and our small garden. The kids are so excited about it! Everyday I tell them we have something for the compost bin and they all are wanting to help. It involves teamwork because the cover needs to come off and be put back on and the rug draped back over the top. They take turns dumping the bucket and returning it to the deck by the patio door for ...»

If you'd asked me a couple years ago about composting, I would have assumed it was a fringe thing that hippie mamas in Birkenstocks did. Storing your trash and turning it into soil just seemed so . . . granola. Way too granola for this city dweller. But then I visited my sister-in-law Jodie in Seattle, and noticed a small little container on her counter that she used to collect composting items. She showed me how it worked and really demystified it for me, and suddenly I saw it as the ...»

There are a lot of options out there for apartment dwellers who want to compost, and like most things it's not as simple as one style fits all. It's about finding what works best for you. Try something! And if it doesn't work for you... try something else! This is an easy indoor compost option for people who need something cheap, customizable and space friendly.

Our Two Bin Compost Bin System that we made and use non-stop at the farm was made entirely from left over pallets. The system works great for us - we keep one compost bin for fresh and ...»

After seeing countless photos of these systems on Pinterest and in the blogosphere, we finally got around to making our own composting system from pallets this weekend. It's really quick and easy - here's how we did it in less than an hour.

A silo is one of those things that makes a farm...a farm. Take a short drive through the countryside and you can see them dotting the landscape everywhere. I have always loved the sight ...»

I noticed just over a week ago that my potted zucchini's were looking like I needed to adjust their feeding levels. I made a liquid manure by filling buckets 2/3 full of compost and ...»

Just finished replacing a compost bin for friends who garden mightily in the city. My clients were tired of tree roots growing up thru the bottom of the old bin, so we made this one sit ...»

Just absolute ugliness drove us to think outside of the box and use free materials and materials we already had on hand to create an enclosure for our compost pile. ...»