Homemade Apartment Compost Bin
I’ve been thinking about composting for a long time. Often the only positive I could think of about owning a house (the idea of home owning makes me feel claustrophobic/tied down) was that I could build a huge, brilliant, gorgeous compost pile – all scientifically done and everything.
Well, due to many things, we have yet to be even just renting a house, thus no composting. But moving here to our little Bellingham apartment, there seem to be none of the negatives that kept me from apartment composting before. We have a huge porch-deck-thingy. Our neighbors are awesome and a few of them are apartment gardeners themselves. This is not an oppressive, everything must look uniform, apartment complex. I have time and a little more energy now. Oh yeah, and I’m no longer worrying about Rick dying, so that helps.
I’ve done it! I’ve started a compost “bin”! I’m only about three weeks into the process, but it’s going fantastically – as far as I can tell. I am madly in love with a pile of decomposing fruits, veggies, dirt, worms, and a plastic garbage can! It’s such an amazing things to watch! Gosh that sounds so weird.
Stay tune to your computer screen over the next few months for updates, suggestions, failures, and much, much more!
The Modern Hippy
I’m so proud of you! Composting is awesome. We have a backyard one and our city recently started doing curbside pickup. It’s amazing how much of our waste is organics that don’t have to go into a landfill!