I built a compost screen a few years ago, made it sort of like a box with a screen bottom so I could set it over a wheelbarrow and sift the compost into the wheelbarrow. I'm not sophisticated enough to have different size screening, however.

FYI, I nominated your blog for a bloggie!

You did! That's so humbling Carol. Thank you very much.

Moving right along...this DIY compost screen doesn't have the ability to change screens either but I have seen some that do. I might make one and do a little tutorial later in the year.

Unless of course someone else has seen plans for one that does have interchangeable screens and I will link to it.

The compost screen I made is a lot like what Carol described. It doesn't screen it down very finely, but it takes care of the sticks and pinecones that always seem to make it into my compost.

You are totally deserving of a bloggie, BTW. One of my faves.

I'm doubly honoured. Thanks Colleen. I'm fans of you ladies blogs as well.

Pinecones? I'm keen to know whether anyone has even had success shredding these into compostable material?

If anyone has, I'd love to hear it. I know I haven't had much luck. The neighbor behind me has a gigantic white pine, and since my compost lives at the rear of my yard, it gets full of them every fall. In spring, most of what is removed with my compost screen is pinecones. I guess if I waited long enough, they'd decompose.

That's a great looking screen. In the past I've just put a piece of chicken wire on top of my wheel barrel but now I want a cool stand up screen like that one.

And I think pine cones and plastic will be on this earth long after we are. :)

Thank you for letting me know I need to do this. I started my first compost pile back at the end of winter and it is nearly ready, but it hadn't occurred to me that I would need to screen it. Have to think how to go about it or how to build one of those.