#diy compost

How to make a compost heap that is great for #wildlife. A brilliant project that will help save the earth and also your pennies #StayAtHome #gardening

Compost is great for wildlife. Read my DIY composting guide to creating a compost heap in your garden and how to make your compost pile great for wildlife.

Compost heaps are great for insects

Making compost is a great project if you are self-isolating and are creating lots of green waste to recycle. It saves the planet because it is not peat based (unlike much compost from garden centres)…

A Fresh Batch of Compost: The Three Month Cook

Well that was a fast batch of rich compost!I didn’t think it would break down so fast and at such a large amount. I first tried this method back in October 2014 when I wrote an in-depth article about how to make fast and easy compost. You can read that here. Well, as it turns out, I sometimes know what I’m talking about! Huzzah to being right. Sometimes.

Here’s what I did since October. I checked…

In college, I had a worm composting bin that worked fantastically.  It was an entire ecosystem and it was housed at the greenhouse on campus.  It might still be there as I donated it for educational purposes.  I had a great experience with it and will do it again when I have my own place.  My tiny apartment is not quite conducive for my previous worm bin.  Composting is something everyone should experience, and I could spout some mundane facts about the percentage of food that composes landfills, but blah blah blah.  It's amazing to watch it transform over time and way more exciting than watching paint dry.  While I have yet to explore the full world of composting options for apartment dwellers, I compost my food and household plant scraps at my parents' house.  

Today, while searching for rain barrel information for work (no hippy work, this is the first time my area has embraced actually having a rain barrel workshop and I'm running with it), I came across a link for a DIY spinning compost bin.  Spinning compost bins do not intentionally have worms in them, but given how compost bins evolve, some may appear over time. 

It's a pretty awesome system that I might try this spring and implement at my parents' house.  Right now, the field acts as our compost site and we're probably feeding more wildlife (keeping them warm through winter?) than actually composting, but we're also keeping the food out of the hands of our neighbor, the landfill. 

Here's the link, with step-by-step photos, equipment needs, and cost lists. 

Compost Made Easy

These 10 facts about composting will help you turn food and yard waste into garden gold.