Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Fwd: Rat-Proof Composting

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

I’m not a supreme composter but one tip:  We are in an urban area, very 
residential, but many large apt buildings have been replacing old commercial 
buildings. Whenever construction started, the rats would be displaced from the 
sites. There would be a lot of them, but they would go away after a few 
weeks/months. 

We follow the same guidelines of no animal products.

(Furnace filters also had to be changed more often because of the dust.)

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


> On May 11, 2022, at 1:51 PM, Trillium Info <trilliuminfo [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Leah.
> 
> Trillium Hollow, which also has 29 units, has constructed a 4 box, rat
> proof, composting system. I am not an expert on this, but all of us use it
> for our kitchen scraps. It was a process of a few months to construct as a
> community, with many months of pre-planning. We have had it in use for 6-8
> years, and I think we only had a small breach occur once, which was fixed.
> If you would like to speak to someone about it, please contact us over
> email, and I will try and forward you on to one of our compost team (though
> none of them were here when it was built, my guess is they understand how
> it was constructed.) Our email: trilliuminfo [at] gmail.com
> 
> Outreach Team
> Trillium Hollow Cohousing
> Portland, OR
> www.trilliumhollow.org
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