NatureMill

First things first, I walk down to our vegetable patch and get some soil with which to prime the NatureMill with. The instructions suggest 2 mug fulls. The soil provides the bacteria which will break the food waste down into compost. I add a couple of hand fulls of sawdust pellets from the bag provided (to give the compost body) and 2 table spoons of Bi Carbonate of Soda to help keep the acidity correct. I pop in a few token scraps of food and prepare for the big switch on.

With the transformer, NatureMill and travel adapter connected up, I switch it on. The NatureMill produces a low hum which is the air pump recycling air from the composting 'mixing chamber'. Recycling the air speeds up the composting action by keeping the oxygen levels up. The 'old' air is extracted via a carbon filter which keeps everything smelling sweet.

Primed with sawdust pellets and garden earth.

The NatureMill arrived nicely packed and undamaged after it's trip from the USA complete with instructions, a US power adapter (!), a bag of sawdust pellets and some Bi Carbonate of Soda. Before I could start composting the first job was to pop into town and pick up a travel adapter so that we could plug it in. That done I set up the composter in our pantry, just a couple of steps from the kitchen. I'm thinking the more convenient the location the more likely we are to recycle.