After the fun of trying to get compost to the front garden beds a couple weeks back we decided that we needed to have us a compost bin closer to those beds. It would also give us a bin closer to the house for the non critter household scraps. After pondering a bit on where to put it we decided that it would go down front between the wall of flowers and the largest bed. There were only three viable options and the other two choices were a further walk and would have taken some rearranging of the earth to make it a some what level space and usable.
This compost area is much smaller than the one down by the critters and is very simply put together using some fencing and old tent posts. You would be amazed at just how useful the sections of old tents can be on a homestead. Stakes and fence posts are just a couple examples.This bin measures about 4 foot across is circular and is about 3 foot deep.
This compost area took about 5 minutes to set up, cost absolutely nothing to make and will save us many sore muscles in the future.
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