Indoor Composter Machines

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Why Have a Compost Pile When You Can Compost In Your Kitchen?

You can try many different ways to create healthy, nutrient-rich compost soil for your garden. Indoor automatic composters, like the one made by NatureMill, offer by far the easist and most convenient way of creating such soil. You simply chop up your organic kitchen waste - peels, scraps, seeds, and leaves - and drop them into the composting machine. In two weeks, you get soil that will feed your veggies, flowers, and ornamental plants.

What could be easier? Composting offers benefits for your yard, your local landfill, and your pocket-book. You won't need to buy fertilizers or potting soil and you'll recycle more of your garbage. It's environmentally friendly and easier than ever. This lens will look at how the NatureMill indoor automatic composter works and why you should consider composting. If you've got anything to add or want to share your composting experience, please drop me a note.

How do Automatic Indoor Composter Machines Work?

Step One:
Cut food waste items into small pieces and add them to the top of the composter. The machine autmatically mixes and heats the compost items. The energy released by the on-going chemical reaction destroys odors caused by nasty bacteria and stops seeds from germinating.

Step Two:
The indoor composter transfers materials to the bottom chamber, where it continues to cure into usable compost, while you add fresh food to the top. The composting cultures produce a mild odor that has been compared to sourdough and mushrooms, and is most noticable when you lift the lid to add food or other waste.

Step Three:
You'll need to balance the chemical reaction in your indoor composter by adding a small amount of sawdust, shredded paper, cardboard, or other dry, "brown" content, and sprinkling in some baking soda, to reduce acidity, as needed. A fan blows air (and thus oxygen) over the compost as the machine works. The carbon filter removes odors from the air exhausted from the machine so that the NatureMill unit doesn't make your home smell like the forest floor.

Step Four:
The composting machine delivers soil for use in your garden or potted plants every two weeks or so, depending how much you put in the unit. It also catches any water produced in a drip tray, to give you nutrient-rich plant food in the meantime. That's it!

Color-Coordinate Your Indoor Composter to Your Kitchen

With so many colors available, you won't want to hide these composting machines in a cabinet, although you still can. The indoor composter comes with sawdust pellets and baking soda, for balancing your compost's chemistry, and with a replacement filter. The pet-friendly version handles animal waste as well as food scraps. From NatureMill:

The home composter that handles it all, including meat, fish and dairy. The NatureMill automatic composter achieves true hot composting temperatures for odor-, bug- and worm-free composting of up to 120 lbs. of food waste per month. Keep it indoors or out. Nutrient-rich compost is ready for your garden every two weeks. One batch nourishes 40 sq. ft. Uses 5kWh of energy per month (that's about the same as a night light). 20"L x 12"W x 20"H. 17 lbs. Three-year mfg. warranty. Made in the USA.

Learn More About Indoor Composters

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NatureMill Indoor Composter Reviews
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Another Review of the NatureMill Machine
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What Do You Think of Indoor Composters?

Are Composting Machines the Wave of the Future?

  • Feb 25, 2010 @ 11:36 pm | delete
    Good lens and information.
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  • missysunshine Sep 29, 2009 @ 1:10 pm | delete
    I think everyone should compost as much as they can. It's not only save the planet but also save money. I have a an indoor composter that made by NatureMill and I compost all my kitchen scrapes including meat and diary. Ever since I compost the kitchen scrapes, I have very little garbage to throw away and my kitchen smell less stinky from the trash. Last week, I called the trash collection agency to downside my trash bin to a smaller size and save $10 a month. Not bad for saving money and less stinky! I think everyone should have an indoor composter.
  • lakeerieartists Jan 1, 2009 @ 7:49 pm | delete
    Welcome to Living the Green Organic Lifestyle!

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