1. structures.
If you don't live in suburbia or the city, you probably don't need
one of those subsidized bins, especially if the bins don't contain
kitchen waste. All you need is a circle of wire fencing (or, as
someone made, a 3- or 4-leaf-clover setup so all you do is stand in
the center to move materials from one bin to the next), or some
wooden pallets (wire 3 together for back and sides, wire 2 more for
back and sides of middle bin, and 2 more for back and sides of 3rd
bin; bottoms and tops optional), or even some hay bales.
If you do live in suburbia or the city or must abide by condo rules,
then my favorite type of bin is the modular BioStack.
2-3. Manure is a green! So there you go -- manure + cardboard/paper
and you have greens + browns.
The Humanure Handbook, available free online, has a useful chart
(iirc in Ch. 3) of what's green and what's brown. It may give you
some more ideas of greens and browns that may be available in your
community.
Tanya
At 1:50 PM -0400 7/7/10, Cordalie Benoit wrote:
Does anyone have some answers here?
I was able to get a 60 plastic gal drum, put a rod through the
middle and built a stand so it can now rotate (end over end) making
mixing very easy. It's also a great place to put daily kitchen
scraps so the wildlife can't get to it.
It quickly became clear that I could expand on this idea
significantly. I'd like to add a three bin compost pile where I can
recycle much more than kitchen scraps. Things like cardboard from
food packaging, newspaper and such could be added. However, I have
a problem -
1, I need some type of structure to neatly organize the three
piles. Wood bins, plastic bins, wire, etc.
I heard that some communities offer these at discounts as
incentive for homeowners to compost.
2, I don't have access to enough green material around my home to
mix with the brown.
3, I can use fresh manure (cow, chicken, rabbit) to help speed up
the compost mix and to improve the overall quality.
Curious if there are other people or groups in my general
area who have solved this problem.
Thanks, Cordalie
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