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Birdy Buddy, thank you - you've given me an idea about having the chickens do the mixing for the compost heap for me. A few months ago when Hancock Fabrics closed down its store near here, I bought a store fixture that I thought would be an ideal portable & movable chicken run. It's on casters...

Believe me, I've been actively campaigning for the change and am quite willing to go talk to the school officials and take along samples of the stages of composting. with samples from each of the three bins. You know they're imagining rats, rotting vegetables, stench, flies, and unsightly...

We are on a roster with the coffee shop at a hospital. There's a Monday group, a Wednesday group & a Friday group. I'm in the Friday group and go every 4 weeks with my empty buckets (frosting buckets are free from the bakery department at the supermarket) and pick up the full buckets. The...

Noooooo - the mice are in my home compost, and dogs are not allowed inside the community garden at the school. We have the three-bin, chain-link system at school, although the school district does not allow us to compost (yet) (they've been discussing it for the past THREE YEARS!!!). We keep...

Hi Felix, I have already one open-front, single-bin compost heap that is made of concrete blocks kept in place by stakes through the block openings.. It is SO easy to add to, and turn, which is why I want to get rid of my fencing wire circles (currently 5 of them) and get a more user-friendly...

Yes, photos please! I like to see other people's composting efforts. I'm about to advertise for someone to come build me a three-bin system in my backyard. I currently use several (5!) approx 4' diameter wire fencing circles lined with cardboard, and they are just too difficult for me to be...

Urine is sterile when first voided. Penny

Now, about that dog poop. IMHO what is being discussed is a septic tank or digester, and not a compost heap. There are regulations about where septic tanks can be placed (groundwater pollution, etc.). As a septic tank however, instead of a compost bin, you wouldn't need to empty the bin for a...

I've left my first two heaps/cages to do what they can until spring. They've been pretty much frozen since mid-December, though I know "stuff" goes on deep down inside. My granddaughter has had two pygmy goats for about 6 months now, and they've brought me probably 80 gallons (300+ litres) of...

Ah, herein lies the problem. We are technically not allowed to compost at the school-based garden yet. After 2+ years the school district is STILL working out its guidelines, sigh. (Don't you just love a bureaucracy!) We snuck in under the radar over the summer (yes, we're a bunch of...

(drooling) Oh do I ever want a compost setup like that one. I think I'm going to ask for someone to build it for me for Christmas. Currently I use 10' lengths of 4' tall rabbit-proof (?) fencing wire formed into circles. (It's the stuff with the closer mesh at the bottom.) I line it with...

Yes, you use it neat, as it comes, for conditioning the straw bales. Works well. Haven't tried it for repelling raccoons. Penny

Love that "golden garnish"! Can I assume you mean that freely available, high-nitrogen liquid fertilizer, aka "secret ingredient" and other descriptions? Reminded me that I keep meaning to pass on this info: To use the above secret ingredient to fertilize plants safely, dilute at a 20:1...

I thought your spoiler alert was directed at children or ultrasensitive readers who might not realize that those cutesy fluffy bunnies were destined to be (shudder) - eaten (whispered). Penny PS Rabbit was cheaper than chicken back in the almost long-ago days of my childhood in Australia. (There...

Hi Lazy G! Try researching seed-saving. It's an up-and-coming area of interest, like permaculture. Just recently I've even seen "Instructions to Seed-savers" listed on a seed packet! Now, instead of the collection of seed packets being evidence of your mental instability, it becomes, like...

At our previous house in the mountains we had a French Lop named Marshall, and also his mixed-breed offspring, Son of Marshall. They were just the most mild-mannered, laidback, friendly rabbits I've ever had. The rabbits shared the chicken pen with the hens and all got along well together...

All I can say is "wow!".

Quote: For about 19 years we lived in the foothills above Denver and during that time we didn't have a problem with bears, but they were around. People did dumb things like leaving dog food or unsecured trash cans outside, or hung bird feeders within bear reach. We were very careful, and our...

Make sure you get the lids too as the coffee shops want the collection spot to look sanitary and hygienic.

If you can put your cat, dog & people hair in the compost, I'd agree that sheep's wool would be compostable. I'm betting that there are microbes that would consume the lanolin, but yes, it could take more time. You might want to separate it out as much as possible. And I'd cover the fleece...