After Decorex in August, I brought the prototype of our large YOLO Compost Tumbler home to experiment with the contents. I also aim to work through my never-touched-for-three-years compost heap, maturing the material in my YOLO until I have worked through the heap.
Butternut seeds germinating in my YOLO Compost Tumbler – even with tumbling. It’s a warm, moist and nutrient-rich environment for them. I should try this with some of my flower seeds as I’m having little luck with them (probably because I don’t water them often enough!).
16 years ago, 12,000 metric tons of messy, sticky orange juice waste (peels and pulp) was dumped (with permission) by a juice company on a “heavily grazed and deforested piece of land” in Costa Rica. Now, almost two decades later…
I met Zelda and her husband Leigh at Decorex. She is an avid gardener and composter with very large property and a series of compost heaps, leaf bins and bokashi bins. They bought a green-orange medium YOLO Compost Tumbler for their kitchen waste and they’re waiting for our large units to become available.
We pulled one of our new large-size YOLO Compost Tumblers out of our oven last Monday, just in time to have a unit ready for display at Decorex. Now that I have it at home, I can experiment with contents to get a feel for the amount of material that can go in, how quickly …
I’ve been curious as to the volume of compost that I’m emptying from the small YOLO Compost Tumbler shell. In the past, I’ve just dumped the contents into a wheelbarrow.
BREEZEBLOCK is a friendly, owner-run cafe in Brixton, Jo’burg. Conscious about waste, they do things like serve their takeaway coffee in biodegradable cups. In their kitchen, they create unpretentious, flavourful and healthy breakfasts, lunches and snacks. As they use fresh vegetables and fruit, they produce a lot of organic waste, which Breezeblock’s owner, David du …
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My dad came to visit yesterday and he brought me a gift – a few bags of sawdust from a sawmill near his home (he says they have mountains of the stuff!).
Garden World Nursery‘s annual Spring Festival starts on Friday, 28 July 2017 until 3 September 2017. You can see (and buy!) our YOLO Compost Tumblers during the festival at the Garden Centre (limited stock available but we’ll add more on demand).
Bayside Lodge & Villas in Plettenberg Bay is the first B&B to order a YOLO Compost Tumbler. In serving breakfast for their guests, they generate organic waste like fruit, veggie peelings and egg shells which they would like to compost for their garden.
