Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Medium-scale composting ?

[Bruce Koloseike (koloseik]

At Westwood in Asheville we have 25 units and three composting sites. At the 
sites we use, there are two composting barrels that we alternately use, filling 
up one with compost and sawdust; once filled, we let it compost till the spring 
and use the other barrel. We secured metal hardware cloth under the barrels to 
keep out rats. One other site uses a rotating barrel and sawdust while our 
third sites uses leaves instead of the sawdust (which we get free from a lumber 
yard). We also have a local company that takes bones, meat scraps, avogado pits 
every other week and returns bags of compost every year. 

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> On May 8, 2022, at 11:24 AM, Leah Halper <LHalper [at] garlic.com> wrote:
> 
> I am a relatively new member of a very suburban co-housing community. The 
> community composted for a long time, but apparently the effort fell apart as 
> members aged and rats moved in. I am volunteering to research how we might 
> re-start. 
> 
> We have 29 units and there is municipal composting by law in California and 
> at our community, but many of us have garden plots and spend a lot on compost 
> we might make. Does anyone out there do composting on this medium scale? 
> Should we consider a worm farm? Have you constructed rat-proof bins? Any 
> experiences or resources of interest! 
> 
> Leah Halper
> Yulupa Cohousing, Santa Rosa
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