Composting is a perennial topic that many gardeners pay much attention to all year long.  You may treat it as a science project; where you add special additives and measure the composting ingredients down to the teaspoon or you create a monitoring system that surveys every inch of rot.  Yet some of you may prefer [...]

When you’ve decided on where to locate your new compost pile and which design to use, you have to decide on what materials to compost.   Whether you decided to build your own composting system or use a freestyle pile, you still use the same raw materials to reach your ultimate composting goal: nutrient rich, hummus-y [...]