1990 Backyard Compost Video from Metro Vancouver

Here’s The Dirt – Guide To Composting – GVRD (Metro Vancouver) – 1990

City Farmer has been promoting home composting at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden for almost 20 years. This video was created in 1990 by Marianne Pengelly for the GVRD (our regional government) and shows how we spoke about composting then. Our City Farmer staff at the time included Gill Elcock, Lorenzo Mele and Susan Ray.

Some of our instructions have changed over the years. Current information is available from our Compost Hotline: 604.736.2250 in Vancouver.

Note that our wooden compost bins are lined with wire mesh. City Farmer created the concept of ‘rodent-resistant bins’, ones that have four sides, a top and a bottom. Our intent is to keep the rodents out. The most resistant bins are made of sheet metal, however the manufacturers who designed these for us were unable to make a go of it.

Using a Rat-trap in the Compost Bin