New Compost Box

      We decided to use some of our free time  (and lets be honest Steve was bored out of his gourd waiting on a computer part to ship lol) and decided to tackle the compost box plans we had. Our old one works awesome but is so low it's very hard to get dirt out of it. Plus it's old and the wood was rottening....it had once been a rabbit hutch and Steve made it into a box.
  Sooo we gathered up supplies and made our new. Best feature of this box is it cost nothing. We had the meal worm boxes with wire bottoms in the garage. We had the two large pallet boxes in the side yard in Steve's "yard gold" as he lovingly calls it. Chicken wire we always have. So it cost nothing. :)
  Steve made a pattern using the boxes so we'd have a sifter level in the top box. This will hold the big items till they break down and fall into the bottom box as dirt or smaller particles. The bottom box has a scoop hole in the front so dirt can easily be taken out. A bonus is he made the box higher so the neighborhood dog won't nose through it lol and it's also a more manageable height.
  When he built it he put it on the side of the house where our garden beds are so I don't have to haul dirt as far. It gets tons of sun and it blends in really well with the honeysuckle etc. He also left the pallet board on the side to hold shovels, rakes etc. I can also frame a piece of lattice on it and grow vining plants which I'm thinking about doing. It would make it blend in even more!! Add in too that he put it by a window so in our lovely super wet springs or cold snowy winters we don't have to tredge outside simply open the window (It's a plus that our compost rarely "stinks"...) We can walk around or use the window :)
  Pretty proud of him. Especially since he was feeling rough this morning but got the project done :)