An interview with Russ Cohn, President of NatureMill

Thursday, February 28. 2008
NatureMill

A little history !

Russ Cohn, inventor and developer of NatureMill started the NatureMill indoor composting project back in 2003. The product has been evolving and improving ever since. Here is an interview with back in 2004 giving an overview of the early development and testing process:

www.howtocompost.org/naturemill.asp


A year later Russ did a follow-up in interview explaining how initial customer feedback led the development of the NatureMill :

www.howtocompost.org/naturemill05.asp

The photo on the page shows the old "mark 1" machine which is quite different to the current design.




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Friday, February 8. 2008
Composting Links

UK Energy Saving - The UK Energy Saving website gives information and tips on ways to save energy and also how to save money on household bills.

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Food for the Roses

Friday, February 8. 2008
NatureMill

Yesterdays jam seemed to prompt the machine to dump the mix in the mixing chamber into the bottom cure try, pretty much filling it up.

So this morning I found a likely looking Rose in the garden and treated it to a feed, tipping the compost around the base. We've not been able to get hold of any horse muck for the garden this year so the NatureMill compost is going to be a big help.

NatureMill sitting in my Pantry with cure tray (compost and all!)

The experience so far has been very positive. The NatureMill does what it says on the tin and it's going to be very interesting to see how the second batch works out.

The only downside to this initial batch was it's smell (once outside on the garden) and not all items had composted as well as would have been ideal.

'Cure Tray' ready to feed the roses.

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Wet ! (and then a jam)

Thursday, February 7. 2008
NatureMill

We've been adding an assortment of kitchen food waste over the last week and all seemed to be going OK until I noticed a couple of days ago that the mixture in the 'mixing chamber' was almost a paste. The American manufacturer mentioned that the 1st batch is often a little 'wet' so I decided to add another couple of handfuls of sawdust pellets. This seems to have done the trick. The NatureMill has mixed them into the soon to be compost and the mix has improved noticeably. Much dryer and "compost like".

This morning I noticed the machine had a red light on the front panel indicating a 'Jam'. I pressed the OK button hoping that it would free it's self up but no joy. The mixing arm whirred for a while and then stopped. I assumed that it was because the mix was to stodgy but on further investigation it was jammed up with an old potato !

The instructions recommend that larger items are cut down into manageable chunks to avoid such problems and suggest leaving the machine for 24hours as items often soften up allowing the machine to free it's self. Needless to say we didn't bother........     

 

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