Rodent Resistant Composter – More DIY How To Projects

Our household has officially outgrown our gigantic composter. We’ve made some changes to the composter and shared it on Instructables.

major changes: Simple wire cylinder separates inner compost chamber from outer ring of woodchips instead of a cylinder AND a wire basket. The wire cylinder with the wire basket for compost allowed us to take the compost chamber in and out but it also created an air gap around the compost that cooled it down. Also, compost is way to heavy to lift out with a mere wire basket.

We’re not aerating this pile, because we’re not sure the aeration is really working that well. If the aeration was working we would see higher temperatures from bacterial activity near the vents but instead we see the coldest temperatures there.

and it’s smaller.