Backyard Composting

Choosing between a composter and digester

• Would you consider yourself a gardener?
• Do you need soil for your garden?
• Are you willing to perform regular yard maintenance?
• Are you able to dig a hole at least three feet deep?
• Do you want to compost all your leaf and yard waste?
• Do you want to compost your pet manure?
• Are you concerned about attracting animals and pests?

If you answered yes to four or more of these questions, a composter is the way to go. You will have access to your own personal soil, full of nutrients and easily accessible.

If you answered no to four or more of these questions, a digester is what you need. You can dispose of nearly all of your organic waste including leaf and yard waste, pet manure, meat, fish and bones. This route requires little-to-no maintenance and will create a leachate packed with nutrients for your backyard environment.

Backyard composting

Why Use a Backyard Composter?

• keeps up to 30% of your household waste out of landfills
• easy to use, can be used year round
• helps the environment
• compost will help your garden keep moisture in the soil after rain or watering
• you will have less of a need for chemical fertilizers
• cost free and chemical free soil enricher
• provides plants with nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous

Backyard digesters

Visit our Items for Sale page to learn how you can purchase a backyard digester.

Backyard digesters are low maintenance and easy to use units that reduce the amount of food waste you produce, and provide a nutrient rich liquid fertilizer.

A Digester is a large tub sized container with a cap that is set approximately one metre deep into the soil. Digesters use heat from the sun, along with microbial activity to develop a rapid decomposition process. This process produces a nutrient-rich leachate that is absorbed into the soil.  Leachate helps in the break down of heavy soils and helps sandy soils hold more water. The nutrients created through the digestion process are easy for plants to absorb, and less likely to wash away in the rain.

Backyard Digesters can break down food waste, pet waste and small quantities of yard waste. Our digesters do not produce finished compost and do not require harvesting. The use of the Backyard Digester speeds up the decomposition of organic materials such as kitchen and yard wastes, and creates a valuable source of nutrients to your backyard plants while promoting waste diversion.

Why choose a digester?

• keeps up to 30% of your household waste out of landfills
• your waste is primarily reduced to water since it is digested, not composted
• no additional water is necessary; the water enters the soil under the base of the unit
• does not require additional soil
• very little residue is produced and no air (anaerobic) or mixing is required
• works well in small backyards where the goal is waste diversion as opposed to soil building