Pentagon Composter

Step 7 One year of Evolution Later...

I've moved the composter onto a pallet so it can be moved with a forklift.
It's now square so it could fit on the pallet better, and so the fifth wall panel can be used to cover it in the rainy season.

The compost was getting way too wet in the rainy season. So it needed a lid.
Some years we get all our rain in three months, and then we don't get any rain at all for six months.

In the rainy season and right afterward, the grass and weeds grow like crazy. We get a lot of grass clippings and weeds to compost. In the dry season there was a watering ban, and everything turned brown and stopped growing. So then the compost began to be mostly food waste. There was a thriving worm colony in the compost, but they couldn't keep up with the food waste. That led to fly and smell problems. It was located right under some open windows. That wasn't good for the people inside the windows. So the compost needed to move away and to get mixed more.

I've just added a Compost Tumbler as a first stage composter..
I'll probably add another square bin so there'll be a convenient supply of old compost for gardening and for adding to the fresh compost.

Comments

[justbennett]

I like your style. You should be in charge of a lot of stuff.