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Easy Composters You Can Build: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-139

Di Nick Noyes

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Editore:: Storey Publishing
Pubblicato:: Jan 10, 1995
ISBN:: 9781603422789
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Editore:: Storey Publishing
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Composting, which in its most basic form is simply the process of decomposition, began long before we humans ever took it upon ourselves to make it an organized activity. Given enough time and the proper conditions, organic matter breaks down. Composting, as we use the term in the modern sense, is a system for enhancing, and thus accelerating, the natural process of decomposition. Since composting is going to take place with or without us, we can make the process as simple or as complex as we choose and be assured of success every time.

When I began, everything I knew about composting was what I had learned from my dad. It’s a wonder that I ever started, though, as his experience was . . . well, ill-fated. Always a person ahead of his time, one spring in the mid-1960s he decided to make a compost bin out of a big old steel oil tank. The tank’s walls were quite thick, so he had a welder cut a hole in one end to put in materials, and a door in the other end to remove the compost. Iron legs were welded to the bottom for stability. Dad painted the tank green and stood it up in the backyard. It was about six feet tall, four feet wide, and two feet deep.

A tank that big can accommodate a great deal of compostable material. In fact, it held much more than a family of four in a suburban neighborhood could produce. For the first time in our family’s history dad stopped insisting that we finish all the food on our plates. In fact, we were lucky to have eaten what we wanted before our plates were scraped and dad was headed for the tank. Unfortunately, everything went into that tank, including meat, fat, and bones, and I shudder to think what else. With his family unable to generate sufficient waste, my father also collected all sorts of material from friends (many of whom were fishermen).

Almost no air could get to the material in the tank, and in no time it was filled with a rotting, awful-smelling mess. My brother and I complained. Our neighbors complained. Dad kept heaping on the materials. It was only a matter of time, he said, before the system would be working correctly. The outcry grew louder, though. By September, due to popular demand, dad stopped using the bin.

Dad’s oil bin composter stood in the back yard for more than a decade. The stuff in it eventually stopped smelling bad, and by the early ‘70s he was indeed using compost from it on his garden. See, it did work. he said at the time. You won’t find plans for my dad’s composter

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