Aerate your compost pile to speed things up. Bonus: By adding air to your bin full of grass clippings, leaves, and vegetable scraps, you’ll decrease the amount of greenhouse gases it produces.
A Compost Turner that has “a free spinning hardwood handle, allowing the user to aerate compost with ease and efficiency, and without strain,” notes the retailer.
A stainless steel Flexi Compost Aerator with a sustainably sourced wooden handle is £19.99 from Burgon & Ball.
A long-handled Steel Hook from Dutch garden tools company Sneeboer has an ash handle and extra long neck.
A Compost Crank with a stainless steel blade and recycled handle is $49.85 from Garden Tool Co.
A Compost Turner from Yard Butler has folding wings to “harpoon into the heart of the compost pile, opening when withdrawn.” It is $19.99 on Amazon.
A steel Compost Mate by Reln, nicknamed the Tumbleweed, is $19.98 AU (about $15.09 US) from Bunnings.