Last time I posted about the composting hacienda, the roof was up and the walls were partially done. Since then, we have finished the walls and added rain gutters and 1200L of drums to collect the rain to use for keeping the compost appropriately damp.

Here are some pictures from the construction:

You can see from these last two pictures the the 200L drums on each side of the rain gutters.

Hopefully now we have enough space to compost all of the grasses and other materials we trim every month. Being in the tropics, this stuff grows like crazy (sometimes a meter a month), and with the size of land we have, it shouldn’t be hard to fill up these composting chambers before the compost has had time to cure.

And after one grass trimming around the land, one of the stalls is already full: