How to create the New Zealand box – another easy-to-make compost container for hot compost to be used in your organic garden.

Perhaps the best small-scale system for the relatively energetic composter is a design known as the New Zealand box.

This home-made New Zealand hot-compost box is a bottomless wooden box with ventilation spaces between the wall boards, and its face is easily removable to facilitate turning. Since the compost rests directly on the ground, a lid is normally added to prevent nutrients leaking from the pile during heavy rains.

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