Composter & compost - TAKEN (or at least first claimant for each found)

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Feel free to respond in case either flakes, but I do have takers for both the bin & contents already.

*** ORIGINAL POST ***

Construction has stirred up rats in our neighborhood, and the landlord wants us to get rid of the compost bin & compost. (Yes, I know, but he doesn't listen, and it's not my property and not my decision). Nobody here has a car, much less a truck. Anybody want the compost? You're welcome to the Earth Machine too if you want it, but the bolts that secured it to the ground were gone when I moved in and it's just sitting on the ground loose.

Comments

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

In my experience composting did attract rodents. I found corn cobs strewn about the yard. Maybe it was a a faulty compost bin though.

[foxgloved.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we've had rats chew holes in our bins the past. :(

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's serious! We've got an Earth Machine, no holes, so there's no way they were getting in there. Apparently there's something they REALLY like in the garage.

[avjudge]

My neighbor found that while they weren't getting in her compost, they'd dug a warren below it - apparently they like the drippings, too. She tells me that when she told a friend in East Somerville about this, the friend looked & found the same thing under hers.

I haven't had that problem myself.

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

This is what happened at my house as well, with rats coming in from below the composter. It was extra lame because the compost was next to the house (dumb!) and the rats moved in for the winter :(

As a side note, Green Pest Exterminators were fantastic!

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Curious, if a person does want to compost but does not but want to be a composter themselves, is there a place in the community open to such....donations?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, there's a group that collects compost at the Armory on farmers' market days.

[ron_newman]

I go to the market almost every week, and have not seen any compost collection this winter.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Maybe Somerville will someday have a compost pickup: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2014/02/somerville_eyes_composting_to_cut_down_on_food_waste.html?camp=localsearch:on:twit:HLsomerville&dlvrit=155349

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Prospect Street Whole Foods in Central Square

The St. Peter's Field parking lot on Sherman Street in North Cambridge has a pilot program through May 2. The (publicized) combination to the toters is 4800.

Metro Pedal Power will pick up food scraps by bicycle, for a fee of $24/month for biweekly pickups. http://metropedalpower.com/metropedalpower/soilcycle/

[crazyanimallady.livejournal.com]

If the person flakes on the composter, I'll take it!

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll holler if they do.