This past winter I made our first compost bin with some wire mesh and wooden posts that were left in our backyard by the previous family that lived here.

It has done okay, giving us one large batch of compost, but it was on the small side, about 3 ft x 3 ft x 2 ft = 18 cubic feet, and it was always filled to overflowing.

Well, I found some old boards in the backyard and used some of the cedar planks that used to adorn our living room wall to make a new compost bin of much greater size: 4 ft x 4 ft x 4 ft = 64 cubic feet! It is amazing how size in volume grows so quickly even with just a little bit more on each length.

Here is the new one engulfing the old one:

With beehive in the background: