How To make a Easy Composter for under 5$ | The Homestead #21

How to make a easy Composter for kitchen scraps or for mulch materials like leaves, straw, grass clippings, etc for less then 5$ of materials. This chicken wire was 15$ Canadian for 25ft and I'm guessing I used about 7 feet of it or so. I used a old curtain rod for the post to hold it together and to drive it into the ground, but you could also use a sturdy stick, or a scrap piece of rod iron or whatever you can imagine, get creative and keep the budget low! The great thing about this composter is that you can easily place them anywhere on your property and move them around if you need to. In this video I also talk about using human urine in your garden briefly, but these composters could also be strategically placed on your property as a type of pee spot, this is especially beneficial if you are filling them with primarily a brown type of material like the leaves I am using in this. Urine is a natural source of nitrogen and will help heat up that compost pile and build an ecosystem for bacteria to thrive and speed up the process of decomposition. But hey if you think peeing on leaves is weird, you can always just leave them as leaves and they will decompose over time leaving you with great compost to add to your soil.

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