Hopefully over the past week you've seen just how easily composting can be incorporated into your life. Composters don't have to be super-expensive to be effective, but if you still aren't sure you want to shell out the money for one or are maybe still toying with the idea of composting, you can always try buying a few pieces of wood and some nails and building a small one of your own. This will get your feet wet in the world of composting and for your added convenience, can be moved to different areas of your yard.

Intro: Mini Wooden Portable Compost Bin
Today we will make a portable compost bin, which can be placed anywhere in your yard. You can rotate this to different spot in your yard and produce healthy soil.

If you plan on planting a plant or a tree in certain spot, place this mini compost bin on that spot so it produces a healthy soil to start with. Then move to the next plot!

This bin is designed to help you think ahead about where you are going to plant, and what you are going to plant. You can make more than one of these bins and test out what compost is best for a plot, and what compost is not the best.

Step 3: Materials
What do we need to make our mini compost bin?

- 4 pieces of wood that are 4.5 by 1' Thickness is not necessarily an issue, but if you were wondering, I had 3/4in thickness.
- 8 Nails that are long enough to go through about 1.5 pieces of your wood. I used very thin ones, sorry I do not know their names, I found them in my workshop.
- Hammer
- Extra pieces of wood are optional if you want to build a cover.
- Different types of waste products which I will talk about in the next step.

Hit the jump to see all of the details involved in building this DIY backyard composter.

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