The finished compost bin

    Compost bin made from old pallets and a bit of discarded carpet

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    1. sparechangemedia (62 months ago | reply)

      Nicely done!

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      sparechangemedia added this photo to their favorites. (62 months ago)

    3. hughroper (62 months ago | reply)

      Great idea.

      I have a friend that is thinking about this... I'm curious how well it works?

    4. sparechangemedia (57 months ago | reply)

      Say, why the carpet?

    5. London Permaculture (56 months ago | reply)

      The carpet helps keep heat in and speed up the composting process.

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      trevorscottcarpenter added this photo to his favorites. (54 months ago)

    7. Surreal 85 (51 months ago | reply)

      Well done ! but, the carpet won't prevent aeration?

    8. London Permaculture (51 months ago | reply)

      Those pallets let plenty of air through!

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    11. gertroood (44 months ago | reply)

      Hello, your beautiful image is inspiring. We'd love it to brighten up our group:
      Allotmenteers

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      rudisillart added this photo to their favorites. (38 months ago)

    13. DanVoglesong (38 months ago | reply)

      "Behold this compost! behold it well!
      Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person-Yet behold!
      The grass of spring covers the prairies,
      The bean bursts noislessly through the mould in the garden,
      The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
      The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,
      The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
      The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree,
      The he-birds carol mornings and evenings, while the she-birds sit on their nests,
      The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs,
      The new-born of animals appear-the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
      Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
      Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk-the lilacs bloom in the door-yards,
      The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead."

      -Walt Whitman, from the poem "This Compost"

    14. DanVoglesong (38 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called GMO Free World (sans OGM, Gentechnikfrei ) picture it ; join us , and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    15. mikescottnz-away for a momth (38 months ago | reply)

      Great poem ...The combined Avaaz ,Greenpeace International and FoE petition to challenge this EU backsliding on gmos after 13yrs via Barroso is here:
      www.avaaz.org/en/eu_health_and_biodiversity/

      Is now close to half a million signatures , e half way point , Bravo Europe

    16. Kew on Flickr (35 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Natural Neighbourhood, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    17. This photo was invited and added to the Natural Neighbourhood group.

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    19. stoopid jerk (18 months ago | reply)

      I'd like to use this image in a presentation i'm giving in Cambodia on composting. May i?

    20. London Permaculture (18 months ago | reply)

      Hi stoopid jerk, that's fine.

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      littlenomada added this photo to her favorites. (15 months ago)

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