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I spent some time today looking into devices for composting kitchen and yard waste for my farm. I spent the afternoon checking out some local sources – most are out or didn’t have what I wanted. So back home to the computer. I ordered this for the backyard:
This turns so that you can continually mix up your compost stuff.
This lovely will reside in the kitchen to collect waste to go down to the composter. It has a carbon filter in the lid to cut down on odors (I hope) I’m hoping that having something this attractive will encourage me to save the garbage and get it into the composter.
This morning I also did some work on my 12 X 12 challenge. I auditioned some fabrics, but I think I need to dye some colors that I am missing. I also finished the Photoshop design that I will use.
Tonight, I discharged one of the pieces from the shibori class. I wrapped it on a pvc pipe and sloshed on some Sunlight Dishwasher detergent. It discharged the outer edge so I washed and dried it and wrapped it the other way. It now looks like this:
The photo is not that great as I took it in the kitchen just now. It looks better than this. Here is a thumbnail of the fabric before I went at it with bleach.
Go to a local restaurant and have them save their table waste. If they serve breakfast you’ll be astounded at the amount of egg shells you can get. Just beware…make sure they dont put in their coffee grounds in this mix. It makes the soil too acidic. However, make sure you get some in a seperate bucket. Roses love coffee grounds.
And your solid fabrics are fabulous. Love the color combo. This is a talent I’m leaving to you pros. I dont’ have room for another hobby. And I love the basket/vase. The colors are very organic looking
Good luck with that tumbling composter — by the time I got enough mass in mine to compost, I couldn’t turn the thing. I “generously” gave it to the new owners when I sold that house. 🙂
I had avoided kitchen composting for years because I was worried about the smell, too. A friend from New Zealand was visiting and told me that there they use bokashi to kitchen compost. I started doing that last July and have been thrilled. No odor, and the compost is amazing. I’m too cheap to keep buying it, so I make my own. Costs about $25 a year when I make my own.
Keep us posted on how the kitchen composting is going!
I am an avid composter…………and have never had a problem with odors in the kitchen, but then I’m pretty good about taking the bucket out often to be emptied. I turn my own, which isn’t a big deal. I have two bins going at all times, and have been doing this for years and years.
Love the discharged piece!! You are such an inspiration.
xo
Like Terri I just use a plastic container with a tight-fitting lid. It lives under the kitchen sink. Closed, it’s odorless. I do envy you the tumbling composter; we got ours — the ubiquitous black bin — from Metro. It does the job, but it’s a b*tch to “stir.”
That discharged piece has such a fabulous sense of depth!
Gerrie, My daughter and her husband have a blue in the kitchen composter like your red one. I have never noticed any odor at all. I was just there at Easter, and she loves it
That’s some fancy composting equipment. I must be a cheapskate as I just go with the slow compost method and create open piles in a hidden area out back. I then carry my house scraps out in a plastic ice cream bucket with lid. I just store that under my cupboard until it gets full. It doesn’t stink until you open the lid. But I take it out often enough that it isn’t so bad.
That discharge is fantastic!
Busy, busy! Wanna come to my house and do my 12 x 12 for me?