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I don't think they must be used very often in the States. That must be why I haven't heard of them before. Great idea though.

I like the look of those raised beds. I'd never heard of pallet collars before. I did a quick search on craigslist and nothing showed up for me. I wonder if there is another name for them in the US?

That's good to know.

That's mainly why I got it. I have the package with 4 sensors. One is in the coop, one in the run, one in my mini-greenhouse and one (for now is in the compost). So far I haven't discovered much except the humidity in the area directly under the enclosed coop is 4-5% higher than inside the...

With the sensor in the less dense but about 5 feet farther away pile, I'm able to read the temperature from inside the house

They do ok. They are advertised as working with a 300ft line of site. Mine are setup about 75-100ft away through a window and work consistently but any farther or any extra obstructions and they start dropping the connection. I'm going to try moving the sensor to a less dense compost pile today...

Looks like it works at 433 Mhz. It's this one http://amzn.com/B00EW4970O

I'm trying an experiment today. I took one of the sensors (http://amzn.com/B00C3HBRIW) that I have for one of those indoor/outdoor weather stations and put in inside an empty plastic peanut butter jar. I'm not really interested in trying to monitor the humidity so there are no holes in the jar...

I think I'm now officially addicted. I broke the temperature probe for my digital kitchen thermometer today (130° F with ambient temp at 65° F).

Ah that makes sense. I didn't realize it was insulated. I wasn't looking too close at the pictures and saw the green tarp material and thought that was the sides of your bin. We had a little bit of a chilly morning today and when I dug down into my compost bin about 6 inches, steam came out...

Since you've created your compost pile with two sections, the size of each section seems to be about half of the recommended size... but it still works. Do you think the recommended size assumes substandard ingredients or maybe assumes it doesn't get as much attention as yours gets or ??

I've enjoyed your composting thread. It is amazing (but probably not surprising) how chickens lead to composting which leads to gardening and back to chickens again. My chicks a just starting to generate a usable amount of nitrogen and it is really accelerating the heating up of my compost piles...