Kewl! So would I be able to snag a pound of worms from you guys when I
have my bin finished? I could barter with B100.....
Joe
Jesse Frayne wrote:
Hi Joe,
Keith and Tom have this information all covered, but
we have a little website here in the 'Smoke that might
also be helpful? One of our daughters set up
vermiculture bins in her U. of T. rez, (a bin per
floor!) transferring hundreds of our red wigglers.
The kids have accepted the idea really well.
www.city.toronto.on.ca/compost
Jesse
--- Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Luke;
Any wisdom to share on the best way to set up a
vermicomposter? I'd
like to start one and I'd be the type to make my own
rather than go out
and buy something ready made, but I haven't a clue
about the realities
of doing it. I have read some info on the web about
it though. If you
could share some of your first hand knowledge it
would be great.
Joe
Luke Hansen wrote:
It sounds like you're all talking about a kinda
large-scale operation here, so I'm not sure how
useful
this will be...but I just built a worm-bin for the
place I work, and have one at home as well...and I
find that they work faster and better for my
composting needs than a conventional composting
bin. I
crafted my latest bin out of untreated cedar siding
leftover from a construction project.
However, I suppose that for larger volume
applications
such as lawn trimmings, I'd second the pallet idea.
Good luck,
Luke
--- Paul S Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pallets are particularly useful. Usually you can
pick up 3 for free and
either have an open side or I had some leftover
window screen, which allows
air flow.
Also, if you have room you can get 5 pallets and
make a double bin...using a
UU shape.
On 12/9/06, Tom Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Robert,
I use wood posts stacked like a log cabin. It´s
open on one side. I don´t
use treated wood anywhere. So avoid that poison.
If the wood rots in time I
replace it.
Tom Irwin
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From: *robert and benita rabello
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *[Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin*
Date: *Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:01:49 -0800*
Although I don't do all of my composting in a
bin,
nearly all of our
household table scraps and the entire collection
of waste from our bunny
cage went into a black plastic compost bin.
Please note the past tense verb
. . .
About a week or so ago, we had a blast of arctic
air sweep through this
area. Temperatures plummeted and with the
outflow
winds howling out of the
east, windchills of -20 C lasted for two or three
days. (I know that some
of you further east will probably laugh at this,
but for those of us who
live near the ocean, -20 is pretty cold!) The
moisture in my compost bin
expanded as it froze, literally warping or
shattering the plastic bin.
The whole thing actually fell over this morning.
I went out to clean up
the mess and found the top third of the contents
completely preserved and
uncomposted (big surprise, it's been cold,
right?), the middle third
consisted of a singular mass of partially
composted, frozen material, while
the bottom third remained warm enough to keep on
decomposing.
But the composter is toast. I'll have to
construct another one because
I'm NOT going to use plastic again . . . What do
the rest of you use for
compost bin construction material?
robert luis rabello
"The Edge of Justice"
"The Long Journey"
New Adventure for Your Mind
http://www.newadventure.ca
Ranger Supercharger Project
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