Naturemill Home Composter

I typically don’t like metablogging (I’ll stop blogging about blogging now).

I found this on Signal vs. Noise and it immediately made me think of Matt Rose.

Naturemill Home Composter

By Jason on Customer experience

This looks like an incredible product – indoor composting with no odors and no mess. You can even compost meat and fish. Simple too – one button operation. A red light comes on when the compost is ready. It’s small enough for 1 person living alone or big enough for a family of 5. Here’s a friendly interview with the Ross Cohn, the president of the company. I love his tone, honesty, humility, and the way he talks about his product. Some good insight into the design of the product and recent improvements they’ve made based on customer feedback.

Some highlights:
Another “must have” feature we added is a food pedal to open the lid – I guess our engineers don’t do enough cooking to realize that there are never enough hands in the kitchen.
One feature I really like is that you don’t have to keep adding compost cultures, or any other feed material, as with most compost systems. The machine retains a small amount of finished compost after each load, so in a way it replenishes itself with hot, fresh compost cultures. This saves a lot of money in the long term, and is very convenient too.
The new control panel has just one button. How easy is that! There isn’t even a clock to set. I’m really tired of having to “operate” all the other devices around my house, with all these beeps and dials. This is much easier. We’ve put a lot of intelligence into the software, so you can focus on gardening and cooking instead of managing your compost pile.
It’s really quite fascinating to observe composting being made, and yet not have to do any work yourself. To me it’s a little like watching an ice cream machine. Except you really don’t want to eat this stuff.

If you have the means (and the place to put/use the compost) do the Earth a favor and pick one of these up.