After establishing a good carbon to nitrogen (a.k.a. browns to greens) mix, enough air and the right amount of moisture are key to faster composting. You will find aeration is a snap.  Not only is the fabric air permeable to allow air in, but air flowing through the spaces and crevices created by the bags keeps the entire pile well-aerated. Usually water will either run off the compost material or concentrate at the place where the water hits.  With the bag, if watering is needed, just water right through the bag.  Water will run along the fabric to more evenly distribute the water throughout the pile.  The moist, well-oxygenated condition creates a perfect environment for microorganisms to thrive for faster composting without the hard work of having to turn the pile.  What this means is that with bags all you essentially have to do is just pile the bags over one another, cover them with a tarp or lid, and leave the bags to "cook" with only an occasional watering. This is about as less work as it gets!  However, if you feel the bags need turning, simply flip them over.  Instead of having to shovel finished compost into a wheelbarrow to take to the garden, just take a bag of finished compost directly to the garden.  When brewing compost tea, just dunk the whole bag in.  Use it to take kitchen scraps to the compost pile.

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Use With Pile Composting
It’s Easier To Turn Bags Than to Turn a Pile!  Turning a forkful at a time to move material from the pile to another location and then putting it back, while also inverting and fluffing it, is tough, back breaking work.  You only have to flip over bags.

Use With Bin Composting
No Need for Extra Bins to Place Compost After Turning.   In open bin composting, instead of moving material from one place and then back again, the material would be turned over into a second composting bin.   Sometimes there would be a third bin to hold finished compost.   With bags, all you need is one bin.

Use With Tumbler Composting
No Need for Extra Tumblers to Separate Raw from Finished Composts.  Compost tumblers are batch composters.  That means they work best if you keep the lid on and not add any new material.  When you add material you will have to keep delaying the finish date.  Thus many people buy two tumblers to fill one up while the other is cooking.  With our bags, you just use one tumbler with compost at many stages of finish.

Use With Container Composting
Less Mess - Just Lift Bags.   Containers may be used as holders for raw material to be taken to a compost pile later or as a "dump and leave" composting bin.   But there is no doubt about it.  Compost material is messy.  Compost material will get on everything, clinging everywhere.   This is true not only with container composting but other composting methods as well.  Bags will keep the mess down for all of them.

The open fabric weave and spacing between bags provide for good air flow necessary for aerobic decomposition as characterized by that "earthy smell."    The open weave allows you to water through the bag   In addition, water will run along the fabric fiber to help distribute water evenly over the material.  Without the bag, water will usually either run off or concentrate at where you put the water.

The bag can be used over and over.  The bag is made of strong, durable Coolaroo® fabric that will last for years.  Seams are double-stitched with GORE™ TENARA® outdoor threads that will not rot.   Straps are of long-lasting polypropylene straps.

We have two sizes to fit various requirements.   We have a medium size 20 3/8" width x 21" high bag that holds 9 gallons or 1.13 bushels of material.   It will fit into many commercial bins and tumblers and into  kitchen containers for carrying out scraps to a composter.  We have a large size 27" width x 32" high bag that can hold 18 gallons or 2.25 bushels of material for those having larger containment needs. 

Choose based upon how much weight you are able to handle.  If you use it as a compost storage bag and fill it completely with compacted damp compost, the large bag can get pretty heavy, weighing as much as 50 lbs.   However, if used as a composting bag, it will weigh less since you will be filling it with a mix of green and brown material.  When the compost is finished, the bulk will be approximately half of what you started with.   The medium bag, being half the capacity, will weigh half as much.