Ready for Winter...?

The large Mantis composter has been fixed and is ready for use again! While swapping out parts, we found a few things that just don't seem to break down well... spoons and knives, for example. Plastic bags, even "compostable" ones, also don't compost in our non-industrial system. Please refrain from trying to compost bags and/or flatware in the future.

We also removed and drained the hoses to store for winter and raked up a bunch of leaves for the "dry material" bin.

Think about spending one of these short, gorgeous fall days cleaning up your plot for next season, maybe even planting some fall crops.

Photo from flickr user "life is good (pete)."

Large Composter is Broken

The 2-sided tumbler composter (brown) is broken. Please do not add any food scraps to this composter, as the handle has broken off and it can not presently be turned. It's okay to use the smaller "Tumbleweed" (green) while we deal with this problem. We are, as usual, short on dry material, but fallen leaves make GREAT dry material, so if you add a few handfuls of those with your vegetable scraps that works really well.