I believe the easiest way to get compost to the bin is via 4 children, but I understand there are drawbacks that come with that particular solution. ;-) We generate an enormous amount of compost. Husband loves cooking. He loves buying vegetables more than he loves to cook them, unfortunately. He is more of a meat guy, but based on his shopping I believe he wishes he ate more vegetables. Between the food we do eat and the food that goes bad before we eat it, it's a pile. Our compost pile has been overflowing for a long time, despite being able to use much of the good product this summer. This fall I bought two of these geobins for composting, and so far am happy. I would think they would make a good temporary bin to keep closer by in winter if somebody didn't want to use a plastic garbage bin. I bought them because I truly didn't have time to build anything myself, and by the time I bought supplies I figured I wouldn't be too far off the $32 cost for the geobin. It is easily adjusted from a small to large radius so I didn't have to think about sizing. Geobin composter I used to "do" composting better. Kept it wet, turned, and hot/warm, etc. Our chickens we used to have were a huge help. Now I don't have the time. I'm into cold composting, which is a nicer way to say "dump it and leave it."

yes find a gardener who has a grasp of reality and put it in their compost heaps or just add it to the garden the worms etc.,. will love it, if you where my neighbour i'd take it and on a daily basis. if you find someone then give it to them on a daily basis would be better (no smelly stuff sitting around) even a weekly basis i suppose? len Here is a link that might be useful: len's garden page

Hi: I'm considering vermicomosting, as soon as I can get used to the sight of worms. Anyway, I dumped some leftover red worms from the bait shop into a small pile of finished compost that's on one of the back squares of one of my beds. I had some kitchen scraps which included some old lettuce that I put in a blender and ended up with a vegetable scrap smoothie that I poured into a mini trench I made in the general area that the worms were put into. The next day I dug around and didn't see the scraps or the worms. Two days after that I took my food scraps (which consisted of a couple of very small and funny looking cabbages I pulled out of the garden and chopped in a food processor, maybe a half dozen egg shells and a few banana peels), dug the same mini trench and put the scraps in. This time I marked off the spot to be sure I was looking in the right place. After chopping it was at least 8-10 cups of scraps. That was last night just as the sun was going down. At 2:00-ish this afternoon I checked and the only food scraps I see are the tops of the banana peels, which I don't try to process because they're too hard and I still don't see any worms. I only buried the stuff three or four inches and piled another few inches to make a little hill. I don't think any animals are getting into it unless they found a way to take the cover off and put it back on. I guess the moral of the story is "if you feed them, they will come," hopefully even through heavy clay soil.

I use a plastic 1/2 gallon ice cream container, but I don't really like it because you can see through it and it looks icky on the kit. counter. I'm watching for something opaque about that same size. The big plastic coffee containers (Folgers type), might work, but I don't like the look of that either. I would not dream of paying $19.95 for one though. We are a family of two, and I don't worry about the amount I'm giving the worms, especially this time of year when things are decomposing so fast and the worms are reproducing and eating fast. If a bin looks like it is getting too wet or has plenty of food, I just hold off on adding more. Sometimes I freeze what I've collected in a platic bag or just bury it in the rose garden. Today a few of my worms were trying to leave, so I decided maybe the bin was a little too wet and left the lid off for the day. REcently I put in a paper egg carton. Boy did that disappear fast.