great deal on a home composter!
Today in my Open Sky store, I'm proud to feature a groovy home composter by Full Circle. I've also made a video of my own home composting system to show you how easy composting can be! It's a little wobbly, but you can still see the compost and my husband, Christopher, showing how it works:
Christopher and I have been composting for about ten years- we love it! If you'd like to get started composting, the Full Circle Home Composter is a great option.
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I really want to have a compost bin, but Hawaii has so many big nasty centipedes that would just love such an enviroment!
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Think I might composting after watching htis...we had one when i was growing up but it stank so much it kinda put me off of tryna start one myself. But maybe me and the hubby will give it a try and see how it goes...wish me luck!
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Great vid! We had a great compost at our old house but couldn't take it with us when we moved! Need to work on ours for our new house.
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Ok, how is it that you and your hubby are adorable even when you are composting?! My compost bin always gets funky and icky... need to keep working on my mixture. I have a tumbling composter and it seems to work better for me than forking a pile. We have too many pests in Texas that would get in there and have a party! I don't like roaches and snakes jumping out at me when I turn my compost! ;o)
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Here in my town (in Ontario, Canada) we have the same curbside pickup of organic waste as Misty and Laura do. We are provided with a small bin for in the house and a larger one to empty into, which gets picked up weekly.
Instead of using the in-home bin, I keep a smallish bowl in my freezer and when I'm cooking or prepping, I put the scraps in there until the bowl is full - at which point I empty it into the bigger bin which is kept outside. This eliminates any possibility of odor or insects in my house.
Also, instead of the liners you can use old newspapers or even used paper towel that is still relatively intact.
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I think it sold out will they bring in more on Open Sky? Is there a website or instructions to tend at compost site or build one? I want to learn step by step how to maintain compost site too! :) TY
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Here in the middle of Canada my compost is pretty much frozen for half the year. I use two large containers made specifically for composting. They are black so as to absorb heat from the sun ( the giver of life ) and work well. These units are very affordable and will certainly last my lifetime. Rain barrels are subsidized through our community and I believe every home should have one ( catchment from evestroughs ). Even though I live on the largest inland body of fresh water in the world ( Lake Superior ) I strongly believe that water is a precious resource.
Composting is excellent but we must do more to preserve our potable water, after all composting doesn't work without moisture, and the best way to get that moisture is from rainwater, as opposed to potable water from the municipal system.
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Fun Video :)
Good work on spreading the good word!
Did you know that iMovie can stabilize video clips easily?
Composting is a fantastic idea. Plants that we eat are made of soil and in the composting process plants that we eat and other organic plant debris that we cant eat turn into soil that can fuel the growing of foods that we can eat: a positive feedback loop that produces edible food plants from inedible plant parts.
Plants are magical in their own way and so are soils. Soils are teaming with lifeforms, many of which have relatives in our own gastro-intestinal systems. Bacterial and fungi in the soil are doing all of the heavy lifting in breaking down organic matter. The heat and pressure of a compost pile help to speed up the decay/ recycling of these plant parts.
Plants take carbon from the air, water from the ground, nutrients from the soil, and sunlight from the sky and magically self assemble them into a huge range of lifeforms, many that are edible and delicious when combined with other plant parts, herbs and spices. Plants energy efficiency for food calories is approximately %300 to %1000 more efficent than meat production. If humans ever wish to live outside of earth in a sustainable way on the moon or mars or father out, we need to collectively master the art of gardening and recycling plant materials and food wastes efficiently with composting.
No human artificial creations come close to mirroring or comparing to the subtle complexity, beauty and wonder of plant growth. Plant life be it edible vegies, grains, herbs or huge wood producing trees, is absolutely wonderful. These plants that we eat power the human experience, and the experience of all other living things we regularly interact with. Plants come from soil and become soil.
Pollution is really harmful to life because it gets into our soil, air and water!
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I'm not sure why one would need this product as it seems a little unecessary. I keep my food scraps in a ice-cream container and empty it when it gets full (after 1-3 days) into my bokashi bin which I keep outside (I live in a rented unit therefore cannot keep a compost bin/composter as such). As long as the container is sealed it should be fine- I have never had a problem with insects, bacteria, microorganisms, etc. No smells either.
The cost of the liners would be expensive too, right?
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We have the same composting buckets here in Portland, OR (as you do in Sydney, Laura!)--the composting program just started late last fall (of 2011) and we love it. Altho the biodegradable liners seem kinda expensive (city does not provide them). We could go without but prefer the liner. We're thinking of replacing the kitchen bucket w/ a smaller ceramic container. It'd go better with our tiny kitchen we think. Anybody have a dedicated ceramic container for composting?
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Here in Sydney, Australia, Our local council actually supplies us with our own organic waste kitchen bins (with a constant supply or biodegradable bin liners) as well as a dedicated garbage bin for organics which is taken away every fortnight to be turned into mulch somewhere.
I took a photo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/thelarsbar/IMG_5451.jpg
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You with small gardens try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_bed_gardening
I live in the middel of a town, and are planning to, make a Raised Bed garden.
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That is so awesome! I live in a tiny apt in NYC right now, but one day when I have my own house I would love to compost!! That little gadget looks so great and efficent!
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wow...it was great to see you and your husband, Alicia...composting, what a fabulous idea...only wish I had a garden...don't have a backyard to plant veggies and flowers...but I love the idea of having an organic garden where I can eat what I grow...
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Do you have any issues with fruit flies with your composter? I had one that I was using. It was a little bigger than that one so that might have been part of the problem, I was emptying it once a week instead of every three days. At some point, I noticed a few fruit flies in the kitchen and when I opened up the composter to throw some scraps in, a small swarm came out. Lately, I've been doing the metal bowl daily dumping thing because the fruit fly fiasco grossed me out a bit. But I'd be willing to give this one a try. I have a big round turnable composter outside, so I also wonder how those bags would do with that.
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We just received our first shipment of full circl fruits and veggies yesterday. I was very pleased! We are in Alaska and organic is frustrating to find. So having it all in one box show up once every 2 weeks is AWESOME! Composting is our next step I tryed it a little last year but without planning ahead or really knowing what I was doing. Now we are in the dead of winter and at first thought didn't think it was worth it in the winter but why not! That will be just more compost in the summer!! Thanks for the reminder.
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To anser Jill's question, if it's ok .
It's a good ide to isolate the compost container in winter time. The composting will still go on even if it's cold, the process makes a good deal of heat, and keep the container warm and the worms alive. There is no problem in covering the container,quite the opposite, it keeps it from drying out, it needs a moist environment, as Christopher mentions in the video.
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We live in the Sierra Mountains and have so much snow ( well not now unfortunately) and so many critters that I was wondering if you cover yours, and if you do does it still compose in freezing temps?
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Just bought the green one! We are so excited to try it out!
Thank you for being you!
- Sofi
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Love it! Have you heard of TeraGanix? (http://www.teraganix.com/) They sponsor my Veggie Kids site but I love what they have. They have many, very cool composting optionsi with no odor and the best part is-you can compost ALL YOUR FOOD! They're working on getting into school systems as well which is super exciting. Thanks for sharing your tips!
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