composting?How to?

[gardener7]

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[patandchickens]

Get stuff that will rot (not stone, metal, plastic, glass), except not meat, fats or dairy (unless you want thank-you notes from rats, raccoons, etc).

Put it in a pile.

Leave it there a loooooong time, like probably several years unless you have read up on how much of what different things to use for fast composting.

Go back several (+) years later.

Voila, compost.



For more detail, try
http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=23095
http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=22816

or for faster, more-scientific, hot composting methods (warning: requires more effort on your part, esp. in planning) try Google, there is a TON of good info out there

Pat, with a cranky baby and barfing 3-yr old today, and thus limited computer time, sorry

 

[pjkobulnicky]

I once got great advice from an old farmer who was on a town "solid waste" advisory committee with me. We were discussing composting elementary school cafeteria scraps and how tough it was. He said, "get a pig or better yet, two pigs" Pass it through the pigs. Instant conversion into compostable materials.

Paul

 

[aquarose]

I once got great advice from an old farmer who was on a town "solid waste" advisory committee with me. We were discussing composting elementary school cafeteria scraps and how tough it was. He said, "get a pig or better yet, two pigs" Pass it through the pigs. Instant conversion into compostable materials.

Paul

I think the same conversion would work with chickens too!