It’s easy enough to make a functioning barrel sifter, but it is the small stuff that makes this sifter really effective and really pleasant to use. In my correspondence with them they wrote: One thing Bo wanted to emphasize with the compost sifter is that the devil is in the details. The compost tumbles down the inclined barrel as it rotates and the siftings fall through the screen, filling a cart below, while the pieces too big to go through the screen come out the far end of the barrel and drop into a bin.ĭetail of cart that collects the sifted compost. The barrel is rotated by an electric motor while compost is fed into one end. The basic concept here is that the sifting screen is shaped into a long barrel. There are a number of features that Bo of Farragut Farm designed into their sifter that make it work well and that aren’t obvious from the video but are worth keeping in mind if you decide to build your own. I may be re-inspired to build a sifter and go back to it.
Unlike them, I gave up on using sifted compost before I got around to building a rotary screen (also known as a trommel screen). The improvement I always imagined was pretty much what Farragut Farm built. The first was their compost sifter in action, the second of a compost spreader they use to cover direct-seeded beds.Ĭompost sifter with detail of bin that collects oversized pieces of debris.Īnyone who has spent any time sifting compost for potting mix using a box screen over a wheelbarrow has probably dreamed of a better way to do it. This month I picked two tools from Farragut Farm in southeast Alaska that they posted short videos of on Instagram. This article originally appeared in the October 2020 Growing for Market MagazineĬompost spreader used to cover direct seeded beds. If author Josh Volk picks your tool, you win a $50 tool gift certificate and a Full Access subscription to GFM. Post your farm-made tool on Instagram or Facebook with #toolsforgrowingformarket.
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