In article , ~consul
wrote:

Jan Flora wrote:
I caught someone throwing several hundred pounds of newsprint (last year's
tourist guides) in the dumpster yesterday and grabbed them for my
compost pile.

Good catch! I used to do this when I lived at my neighbours farm
about 15 years ago,
but now I live in an apartment. I have to figure out a new small load
composting. I am
in the process of making my own tumbler out of old plastic buckets, I
just have to figure
out how to make it tumble and spin.
Those tourist guides, are they colour? I thought one shouldn't used the
colour
newsprint/magazines or something? Or is your compost pile big enough to
.... cure it?

They are regular black ink on newsprint -- no color or slick paper. My
yard is several
acres, so I have room for lots of big compost piles : )

Could you get something like a refrigerator dolly to set your buckets on
and spin them?
Or hit the hardware store and buy some little dolly wheels and build a
frame the right
dimensions to hold a bucket? Let me chew on your idea for a little while
and see if I can
think something up for you.

Have you looked into worm composting? Lots of Alaskans do that, especially
people up
north in Zone 1. (It's big in Fairbanks.) You can do it in a Rubbermaid tub.

Jan