5 Things You Didn’t Know About Composting Toilets
Your excrement contains the nutrients to fertilize and grow the food that feeds you. Learn about the science behind this age-old cycle.
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Maker Faire New York: Learn About Worms
Kids and adults alike are learning about the role worms play in our earth, courtesy of the NYC Compost Project. See how to keep worms in your home, in container bins, and turn food waste into reusable compost. Then, in turn, make compost cookies to be stuck on trees or deposited on the soil of […]
Pedal-powered compost bin
Here’s a humongous barrel-type compost rig that can turn up to 500 lbs of a load using pedal-power. All the parts were made from bike drive trains and parts found around the shop. This might be overkill for a household, but might make sense for a small community garden. Definitely you’d get some exercise while […]
Pallet-based compost bin
Here’s what you need to know to make a quick, very serviceable compost bin out of four wooden shipping pallets. Pallet Compost Bin
The power of poo
Brothers Kevin and Daryl Maas of Washington State are producing electricity from cow manure. We use a proven, commercialized technology called a manure digester to harvest methane gas from manure. We burn the methane to create electricity, while sending the processed manure back to the farmers as an organic fertilizer now free of pathogens and […]
Double-barrel composter
I have a confession: I have a something of a compost fetish. I built my first pile when I was 16 years old. I instantly feel in love with the earthy alchemy of the whole process: dumping in a wide variety of yard and kitchen waste, carefully tending it over time, seeing and feeling the […]
