Permaculture people are familiar with the idea of zones used to conceptually divide a human habitat. The zone closest to where you live is 1, and it's where you should keep things like the compost heap for kitchen scraps. For a million reasons, I haven't figured out how to keep a compost pile in Zone 1. Mine is closer to Zone 3, where my garden is, about 200 yards from my house.I can see why a compost heap should be in Zone 1 -- it would be so much easier to haul my compost bucket out there several times a day. But alas, I do not, so the bucket often looks like this, especially this time of year, when folks in my area are harvesting lots of something every single day.
This is a huge old soup pot that never really worked that well for soup. It's so thin that I believe it possible to burn water in the cavernous interior.
But it works just fine for the heaps of kitchen scraps I collect this time of year.
Boy oh boy...I should switch to something like that! I am using a coffee can right now, and it's ridiculous how often I have to empty it!
ReplyDeleteHa! A coffee can would last about 2 seconds before it was full around here. :)
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