The biggest mistake that home composters make is not adding enough carbon to their system okay and then once you have that recipe in there you want to get active with it you can use um I like to use a metal pole or a pipe um I find it easier than using a shovel um just easier to access and what you do you would stick that in there and you would just make wide circles in it and that would start the decomposition process.

You notice all these holes along the side of the compost bin that's great because those holes allow oxygen and moisture into the compost okay it has this nifty little trap door here so you could access the finished compost right precisely yep that's what that's for and also you can see there's no real bottom to it oh right so it gives vermin a real opportunity to get inside and to burrow in there and we really don't want to invite them not the best thing no now this is a great solution and more vermin proof uh this this is a tumbler so what you do is you open this door here put your material inside the same 3:1 ratio that's right three parts carbon and one part nitrogen you close it up make sure it's tight and secure you undo the side lock here and then you start turning that seems pretty handy to me it's a great solution for breaking down material one of the drawbacks though is that people tend to overfill it and then when you do turn it it's sort of makes the material turn into one big giant glob so you have to be careful with that.

What about this one so this is designed to sort of blend in with your trash and your recycling just on the side of your house for instance okay you open the door and you put your Organics right on top of the screen here and then after 3 or 4 months let's say when you're all ready to harvest that compost you would turn this crank and that forces the material to go down to the bottom of the of the uh container and this is where you get your finished compost yep now for my money I would just go with a stand standard 32G trash can that you can get at any Home Center uh these things are durable uh they're inexpensive $5 $20 something like that and all you're going to want to do is sort of emulate the best attributes of these different devices into this one okay going to start by drilling some holes by using a 5/16 drill bit I'm ensuring that the material will receive adequate moisture and oxygen but it won't pose any issues in terms of vermin and there you have it a totally homemade composting bin now ideally you'd have three or four of these so you could sort of monitor the decomposition process like we saw down below the other piles exactly yep.

Now ideally you'd have three or four of these so you could sort of monitor the decomposition process like we saw down below the other piles exactly yep now these I'll assume that you have a yard but what if you live in the city and services like yours are not offered what else can we do well in that case I would recommend verac composting and I'll show you what that's all about all right so this is what you would just call a worm bin another homemade creation absolutely yep he just bought this tote at a home center uh took some made some holes some large holes to give give the worms plenty of oxygen now let's take a look inside so what you have in here are a special kind of worm that are uniquely designed for consuming organic material they're called red wigglers easy for me to say yep and they just eat uh Organics they'll eat up to their body weight a day it doesn't even smell right exactly and that's when you know you're doing it right too there should be no smell if you're doing it correctly and by correctly that basically just means that you're not adding too much food at any given time and you're also not starving them okay and you'll know that they're unhappy they'll start to climb the the sides of the bin they'll try to escape essentially they're looking for food they're looking for moisture um some things that you want to keep in mind uh you don't want to put too much uh they don't like light so you don't want to have too much light on them so they're great for putting underneath your sink or something like that so someone in a city could just put them under their sink small space mhm yep basements are great for them too okay.

So how do you get the finished compost in this setup I drilled some holes on the bottom here you can push that loose material down below and it'll catch in this Basin so this acts like a sifter no exactly yep well thank you it seems like there is a solution for every homeowner I think there is

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso what we have here is an active pile at first glance this just looks like a pile of dirt but as you look closer you can start to see the scraps yeah absolutely when you approach the pile you can begin to identify the Raw Feed stocks and that just means the uh Organics the raw Organics that you use to build your compost okay and uh there are a couple other key things that you need to compost successfully uh one of the things would be water and that can come in the form of uh snow or and rain so what kind of consistency should the pile have you want the material to feel like a rung out sponge and uh another key component is uh air rating the pile and with larger piles you can use a front end loader um but with smaller piles like this you can actually just use a shovel or a rake and you basically just want to air rate it uh maybe once a week at the least something like that and that'll ensure that adequate uh oxygen is um is getting into the pile and it also moves the microbial activity throughout the pile thoroughly so we got three piles that are in different stages of De composition such as the one that I showed you which is the active pile and then this one here this is the finished compost this is completely stable which means it's not going to decompose anymore and clearly there's still some debris in here but as soon as you screen that out you're going to be left with a really nice soil amendment but not everyone has the space or the need for this volume of compost right there are small space Solutions absolutely so what we have here are some common commercially available composting systems you see these all the time in backyards in the suburbs okay and this is really your most basic system um what it is is a plastic box essentially with these doors that open up top and this is where you would insert your feed stocks which would be your kitchen scraps your nitrogen material okay you do want to be sure however that you add an ample amount of carbon in order to compost properly so where do you get your carbon from so carbon comes in the form of uh dried up leaves um cardboard newspaper that sort of thing okay and you want to be sure that you do it at a ratio three to one so three parts carbon to one part nitrogen it is by far the biggest mistake that home home composters make is not adding enough carbon to their to their system okay and then once you have that that recipe in there you want to get active with it you can use um I like to use a metal pole or a pipe um I find it easier than using a shovel um just easier to access and what you do you would stick that in there and you would just make wide circles in it and that would aate the material okay I notice all these holes all along the side of the compost bin that's to let oxygen in correct that's a good point you the holes allow oxygen and moisture into the compost okay and it has this Nifty little trap door here so you could access the finished compost right precisely yep that's what that's for and also you can see there's no real bottom to it oh right so it gives Vermin a real opportunity to get inside and to burrow in there and we really don't want to invite them not the best thing no now this is a great solution and more Vermin proof uh this this is a tumbler so what you do is you open this door here put your material inside the same 3:1 ratio that's right three parts carbon and one part nitrogen you close it up make sure it's tight and secure you undo the side lock here and then you start turning that seems pretty handy to me it's a great solution for breaking down material one of the drawbacks though is that people tend to overfill it and then when you do turn it it's sort of makes the material turn into one big giant glob so you have to be careful with that do not over stuff these what about this one so this is designed to sort of blend in with your trash and your recycling just on the side of your house for instance okay you open the door and you put your Organics right on top of the screen here and then after 3 or 4 months let's say when you're all ready to harvest that compost you would turn this crank and that forces the material to go down to the bottom of the of the uh container and this is where you get your finished compost yep now for my money I would just go with a stand standard 32G trash can that you can get at any Home Center uh these things are durable uh they're inexpensive $5 $20 something like that and all you're going to want to do is sort of emulate the best attributes of these different devices into this one okay going to start by drilling some holes by using a 5/16 drill bit I'm ensuring that the material will receive adequate moisture and oxygen but it won't pose any issues in terms of vermin and there you have it a totally homemade composting bin now ideally you'd have three or four of these so you could sort of monitor the decomposition process like we saw down below the other piles exactly yep now these I'll assume that you have a yard but what if you live in the city and services like yours are not offered what else can we do well in that case I would recommend verac composting and I'll show you what that's all about all right so this is what you would just call a worm bin another homemade creation absolutely yep he just bought this tote at a home center uh took some made some holes some large holes to give give the worms plenty of oxygen now let's take a look inside so what you have in here are a special kind of worm that are uniquely designed for consuming organic material they're called red wigglers easy for me to say yep and they just eat uh Organics they'll eat up to their body weight a day it doesn't even smell right exactly and that's when you know you're doing it right too there should be no smell if you're doing it correctly and by correctly that basically just means that you're not adding too much food at any given time and you're also not starving them okay and you'll know that they're unhappy they'll start to climb the the sides of the bin they'll try to escape essentially they're looking for food they're looking for moisture um some things that you want to keep in mind uh you don't want to put too much uh they don't like light so you don't want to have too much light on them so they're great for putting underneath your sink or something like that so someone in a city could just put them under their sink small space mhm yep basements are great for them too okay so how do you get the finished compost in this setup I drilled some holes on the bottom here you can push that loose material down below and it'll catch in this Basin so this acts like a sifter no exactly yep well thank you it seems like there is a solution for every homeowner I think there isso what we have here is an active pile at first glance this just looks like a pile of dirt but as you look closer you can start to see the scraps yeah absolutely when you approach the pile you can begin to identify the Raw Feed stocks and that just means the uh Organics the raw Organics that you use to build your compost okay and uh there are a couple other key things that you need to compost successfully uh one of the things would be water and that can come in the form of uh snow or and rain so what kind of consistency should the pile have you want the material to feel like a rung out sponge and uh another key component is uh air rating the pile and with larger piles you can use a front end loader um but with smaller piles like this you can actually just use a shovel or a rake and you basically just want to air rate it uh maybe once a week at the least something like that and that'll ensure that adequate uh oxygen is um is getting into the pile and it also moves the microbial activity throughout the pile thoroughly so we got three piles that are in different stages of De composition such as the one that I showed you which is the active pile and then this one here this is the finished compost this is completely stable which means it's not going to decompose anymore and clearly there's still some debris in here but as soon as you screen that out you're going to be left with a really nice soil amendment but not everyone has the space or the need for this volume of compost right there are small space Solutions absolutely so what we have here are some common commercially available composting systems you see these all the time in backyards in the suburbs okay and this is really your most basic system um what it is is a plastic box essentially with these doors that open up top and this is where you would insert your feed stocks which would be your kitchen scraps your nitrogen material okay you do want to be sure however that you add an ample amount of carbon in order to compost properly so where do you get your carbon from so carbon comes in the form of uh dried up leaves um cardboard newspaper that sort of thing okay and you want to be sure that you do it at a ratio three to one so three parts carbon to one part nitrogen it is by far the biggest mistake that home home composters make is not adding enough carbon to their to their system okay and then once you have that that recipe in there you want to get active with it you can use um I like to use a metal pole or a pipe um I find it easier than using a shovel um just easier to access and what you do you would stick that in there and you would just make wide circles in it and that would aate the material okay I notice all these holes all along the side of the compost bin that's to let oxygen in correct that's a good point you the holes allow oxygen and moisture into the compost okay and it has this Nifty little trap door here so you could access the finished compost right precisely yep that's what that's for and also you can see there's no real bottom to it oh right so it gives Vermin a real opportunity to get inside and to burrow in there and we really don't want to invite them not the best thing no now this is a great solution and more Vermin proof uh this this is a tumbler so what you do is you open this door here put your material inside the same 3:1 ratio that's right three parts carbon and one part nitrogen you close it up make sure it's tight and secure you undo the side lock here and then you start turning that seems pretty handy to me it's a great solution for breaking down material one of the drawbacks though is that people tend to overfill it and then when you do turn it it's sort of makes the material turn into one big giant glob so you have to be careful with that do not over stuff these what about this one so this is designed to sort of blend in with your trash and your recycling just on the side of your house for instance okay you open the door and you put your Organics right on top of the screen here and then after 3 or 4 months let's say when you're all ready to harvest that compost you would turn this crank and that forces the material to go down to the bottom of the of the uh container and this is where you get your finished compost yep now for my money I would just go with a stand standard 32G trash can that you can get at any Home Center uh these things are durable uh they're inexpensive $5 $20 something like that and all you're going to want to do is sort of emulate the best attributes of these different devices into this one okay going to start by drilling some holes by using a 5/16 drill bit I'm ensuring that the material will receive adequate moisture and oxygen but it won't pose any issues in terms of vermin and there you have it a totally homemade composting bin now ideally you'd have three or four of these so you could sort of monitor the decomposition process like we saw down below the other piles exactly yep now these I'll assume that you have a yard but what if you live in the city and services like yours are not offered what else can we do well in that case I would recommend verac composting and I'll show you what that's all about all right so this is what you would just call a worm bin another homemade creation absolutely yep he just bought this tote at a home center uh took some made some holes some large holes to give give the worms plenty of oxygen now let's take a look inside so what you have in here are a special kind of worm that are uniquely designed for consuming organic material they're called red wigglers easy for me to say yep and they just eat uh Organics they'll eat up to their body weight a day it doesn't even smell right exactly and that's when you know you're doing it right too there should be no smell if you're doing it correctly and by correctly that basically just means that you're not adding too much food at any given time and you're also not starving them okay and you'll know that they're unhappy they'll start to climb the the sides of the bin they'll try to escape essentially they're looking for food they're looking for moisture um some things that you want to keep in mind uh you don't want to put too much uh they don't like light so you don't want to have too much light on them so they're great for putting underneath your sink or something like that so someone in a city could just put them under their sink small space mhm yep basements are great for them too okay so how do you get the finished compost in this setup I drilled some holes on the bottom here you can push that loose material down below and it'll catch in this Basin so this acts like a sifter no exactly yep well thank you it seems like there is a solution for every homeowner I think there is\n"