Thank you to the volunteers that helped build the compost bin a few weeks ago. It looks amazing! You brought your tools and your teamwork and we made a lovely addition to our garden. The Apple Valley Home Depot helped us out by discounting the materials and cutting everything for us. The wood is cedar which should make it last several years. We used the instructions on Organic Gardening to make it happen.
Now that we have this beautiful compost bin, let me tell you how you can use it.
Composting is the process where organic wastes (grasses, leaves, food scraps and garden debris) are converted into a highly desirable, soil-like material. For any compost system, you need to add the right ingredients. We need 5 ingredients for good compost:
- Bin (done!)
- Carbon source or "browns" (dead leaves, straw, paper, etc.)
- Nitrogen source or "greens" (food leftovers, plants, coffee grounds, etc.)
- Air--we need to turn the pile occasionally
- Water--usually the water from the greens is enough but in dry times we may have to water it down
- Microbes--our little helpers that break down all the organic stuff. They will appear naturally.
The three bin system works just like having three separate compost bins. You fill up one section. While the material in the first section is decomposing, you fill up the second section.
As a garden member, you can bring leftovers and other other food scraps from home to add to the compost bin, but please follow this list. Every time you add a handful of greens, add 2-3 handfuls of browns.
Why compost?
About 1/3 of our trash is made up of items we could compost. Currently, we send them to a landfill where they don't decompose properly or to an incinerator where they are burned. Making compost reduces the amount of trash we send off and creates a valuable resource for our garden.
What you can do
- Bring your leftovers, banana peels and apple cores to the compost bin
- Add in any garden plants and weeds (without seeds!)
- If you have dried leaves at home, please bring a bag or two to the garden. Put them next to the compost pile. When you add in greens, add some leaves too.
- Turn the pile with a rake or shovel
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