Going Green (And No, Not MSU Green)

For my birthday I got my highly anticipated composter (highly anticipated by me, not Mark), which I had to put together (Mark was very kind to help me, so it went quickly). It came in many pieces, and there was a note of caution included to not throw away any "packaging" as it was not actually packaging. (The styrofoam was part of the composter, to help insulate.)

 

Here I am working on putting the contraption together (which was a lot easier than I initially thought). Yes, I am wearing a Red Wings shirt and pink pajama bottoms.


Octavius was helping out, and decided he wanted to try to be composted.


The composter is nice because it has two chambers, so theoretically, as I fill one chamber, the other chamber is decomposing; by the time I finish filling the second chamber, the first one should be finished. Unfortunately, this is not going to be true for awhile, since I have a whole garbage can's worth of compost materials already, plus all of our leaves from last fall still.


Yummy! :) I am looking forward to having some good fertilizer to use on the flowers and vegetables I'm going to grow this summer.