Composting

At the moment we have two compost, one is just a pile and the other a barrel. The purpose of the barrel is to speed up the process of composting but we haven't quite gotten it to work. Even though we didn't get the barrel to get hot, time and patience broke down the contents and we ended up with wonderful dark, rich soil! In order to improve the barrel Matt drill holes in the pipe that runs through the middle of the barrel, so that more air to get to the compost. The finished compost was distributed in the garden and we filled up the barrel with the contents of the pile compost. Hopefully this time we get the right combination of carbon, nitrogen, air, and water to get our hot compost going. Also we will be getting coffee grounds and food scraps from a local coffee shop in order to get more nitrogen in the mix.

This was once all food scraps and hay!