Trash can compost bin

Take a simple garbage pail (plastic or metal), add some holes for aeration, and start composting! Round pails can be tipped on their sides to tumble every so often (be sure to use a locking lid!), where more squared up containers can be rocked or even tipped over to help mix the materials inside.

A DIY compost bin is an inexpensive way to start composting. You don't need to spend a lot of money on a fancy compost bin. You can make one yourself using items you already have in your house. It's so easy to make a kid can do it!

I’m sharing a DIY tutorial on how to build the easiest city-friendly compost bin using an exterior trash can, a drill, and a large bit.

Ever since we moved to our acreage I have been meaning to build a compost bin. I hate throwing away fruit and scraps in the garbage when I could easily throw it in a pile and make some nutritious soil for my garden next year. After this past weekend I was motivated to get home and make on. My BFF’s in law’s are great at recycling and composting items so it was an easy motivator. I wanted to get something for inside though so I didn’t have to keep walking all the way across the yard to throw…

First, obtain a barrel for the composter itself. Using a ruler, straightedge, and felt-tipped pen, mark off where you want the door to be.

For some reason, I was under the impression that composting was this big complicated thing and that a DIY compost bin would be a pain to make. Green matter, brown matter, not too much, not too little. I'm a person of uncomplicated. I do not like it when things get too complex because it makes

One of the most popular projects of the past few years has been the pallet compost bin. There has been a boom in the community interest in repurposing abandoned pallets for furniture and landscaping. This, in conjunction with a surge of interest in creating sustainable gardens through processes like composting, has led the pallet compost bin being touted as a composting solution that combines these trends in environmental sustainability. Basically, the project involves using one pallet for…

Composting kitchen waste creates a valuable garden amendment. This trash can method is totally doable in the city!

$10 and 10 minute compost bin DIY

Happy Tuesday! Today were going to take a little break from fall decor and DIYs to talk about some yummy decomposing organic matter. You don’t have to laugh… I’m not funny, I know. After tropical storm Florence rolled through here, our garden had seen better days. The plethora of water helped some of the produce […]