Home composting is an effective way to reduce household waste naturally.

Organic Waste Material, like yard and kitchen waste can be recycled through 'Composting". Finished compost is a wonderful soil amendment that can be applied to soil around the home or garden to improve the texture of the soil and add important mirconutrients. For Vermicomposting (or Worm Composting), Click Here.

Composting is part of any complete household environmental strategy. You benefit the earth in more ways than one – not only are you not contributing to landfills, you’re returning the goodness of nature, back to nature!

Compost holds nutrients from decaying material in a form that is easily absorbed by plants. Leaves, grass clippings and food wastes are suitable for composting. Compost is especially beneficial when combined with manure. Check out the Advantages & Benefits and Methods of Composting.

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What is composting?
You know how wonderful a forest smells? That aroma of dense, healthy, thriving plants? That’s naturally occurring compost.

Some people incorrectly believe compost to be a smelly, unpleasant pile in the backyard. Compost is actually organic matter that is no longer recognizable – what you are left with after decomposition is rich, dark, great-smelling, crumbly and soil-like.

You can start a compost pile with leaves and debris from your yard. Kitchen scraps make great compost. You shouldn’t use meat, bones or fatty foods for compost because it will attract animals. Organic fertilizers, like compost and manure, are great for conditioning your soil.
 

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Composting Methods!

How it works...
What’s the science of it all? How does a load of garbage transform into a marvelous fertilizer? Easy.

Under correct conditions, almost no work is required of you. Nature will reduce garbage into compost (that’s garbage, by the way – organic matter – not trash).

Bacteria are vital agents in decomposition, and it’s bacteria that cause compost to get hot (in fact, in cooler months, you may even notice steam). That’s because the bacteria are on a feeding frenzy, and the faster they eat, the more heat they generate. Hot compost is a very good sign that great things are happening in there.
 

But when your pile cools off, you must turn it so the middle of the pile has all the right elements (air, moisture, carbon and nitrogen) to rekindle activity and keep the pile hot.

That same heat will escape if the pile is not large enough to retain it. A pile of at least one cubic yard (3 x 3 x 3 feet) is a good rule of thumb.

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