
When we lived in the country, composting all of our scraps was very easy practice! All I did was take everything out to the huge pile of horse manure by the barn, wait a few months and it became compost. Living in an urban apartment it is not quite as easy to compost our leftovers but what do you do if you don't want to waste your food scraps?Being a food writer I tend to generate alot of scraps and peelings so I was at a loss, but I've happened onto a fabulous product from a company called Nature Mill that is sure to be my next "lifesaving" purchase!
Given the coveted "Best of What's New Award", by Popular Science, the Nature Mill Automatic Food Composter is a wonderful blend of technology and common sense! All that you do is continuously place your food scraps into the top of the cannister and through a combination of heat and rotation, fresh, organic compost is created! The makers of Natures Mill say that this machine runs silently and powerfully for approximately 50 cents a month and that's a real bargain when you consider that all of our non- composted waste ends up in landfills. Fresh compost drops through a grate into the container in the bottom and a fresh supply is always being generated that is completely "critter" free! The Natures Mills Composter is made of recycled materials and is fully recyclable and completely engineered for indoor use. There's no odor because as the machine is rotating the air is being passed through a special charcoal filtration system.
The Nature Mill Kitchen Composter comes in 7 different colors and is very light, weighing in at only 17lbs. I encourage you to go to their website or your nearest Smith and Hawken store and check out this fabulous composter. It's really my hope that every kitchen will someday include excellent products such as this one!
http://naturemill.com/
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