Wooden shipping pallets are easily recycled into large, heavy-duty compost bins which assemble in minutes, and can produce rich humus mulch and compost year after year. If you have a fair-sized property, a single pallet bin can handle up to two cubic yards of leaves, grass, and brush. If you're involved with a school or church, a three-bin pallet system might be just the ticket (and a free ticket, to boot!) for your larger campus. A system I constructed at the American Horticultural Society headquarters at River Farm in Virginia was easily capable of handling all the trimmings from several acres of actively managed formal gardens.Click on the following link to download my factsheet Composting With Pallets [PDF]
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Great article! My wife attended one of your workshops on composting and got a lot of out of it. We've been informally composting for years...only now are we putting a little more focus on it and boy it's paying off! Great stuff coming from the "pile". We'd like to formalize it a bit more with side-by-side pallet frames, as you've described them. My question is this...I've called a few places about getting free pallets (thinking that the companies would not want them anymore), but they indicated that they send them back to their suppliers as part of their supply chain. Do you know where we can get some for free? I'm even willing to buy some (if the price is "right"). Thanks for your help and your expertise. By the way, now she wants a worm bin...not sure where that would be going...maybe her bathroom! ;-)
Thanks!
- David
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