The document discusses composting at home using a three-tier Daily Dump Kumbha system. It describes how kitchen and garden waste is easily composted in the container over weeks, transforming into nutrient-rich soil. Witnessing this process of organic decay into compost is fascinating. The finished compost can then be used to enrich home gardens grown in urban balconies. Composting and home gardening provide many benefits and should be mandatory practices.

1. The Joy of composting at Home
Bhargavi S.Rao
Trustee
Environment Support Group
1572, 100 feet Outer Ring Road
Banashankari 2nd Stage
Bangalore-70
www.esgindia.org

2. The beginning
• Most of us have grown up
in homes with a backyard
composting
pit, composting is not
new! Living in an
apartment we first tried
composting in a bucket.
Once we harvested our
first compost, a love affair
was born and soon we got
a Daily Dump Kumbha.
Vegetable, Fruit, Flower
and garden waste
promptly go into the top
most Kumbha every
morning.

3. The Three tier Kumbha
• Composting is easy
and has great
benefits for you and
your community. The
three tier Daily Dump
Kumbha is easy to
use, does not occupy
space, no smell and
no flies!
• The 3 tier Daily Dump
Kumbha in the small
balcony that helps a
family of four
compost their
Biodegradable waste

4. The process
• Vegetable, Fruit, Flower
and garden waste filled in
the topmost kumbha that
goes to the second
position when full.
Occasionally we threw in
some turmeric powder if
we happened to think of
it.
• Composting is fun! It's
great to finish cooking a
great meal and then
dump all the kitchen
waste into the daily
dump

5. Compost
• It is fascinating witnessing
the alchemy of organic
decay, when banana
peels, coconut shells, eggs
shells, peels, used coffee
and tea powder can
become life-sustaining. Its
amazing to see the volume
shrinking before our eyes!
In a matter of weeks this
once kitchen garbage
magically transforms into
dark, earthlike organic
matter to enrich the soil of
a garden or even potted
plants. Home made
Compost ready to use for
home and kitchen garden.
It smells fantastic — a faint
but rich earthy fragrance!

6. Balcony Garden
• Our own patch of greenery in
the urban concrete jungle. A
place where we can grow
vegetables is no longer a
farfetched dream. With
composting at home, a home
garden begins.
• The benefits of composting and
Home gardening are plenty.
Composting must be made
mandatory in every home and
ward. Dry recyclables must be
collected and sent to respected
recycling units, only hazardous
and Biomedical waste will have
to be scientifically landfilled.
And the city will not have any
garbage to throw out!