• specialized type of recycling - recycling yard and kitchen wastes.

• biological process that occurs when tiny, microscopic organisms break down organic waste (plant and animal based waste) and recycle them to make new, healthy soil.

• you can build or purchase a bin for your compost or simply you can build your pile on the ground.
  

advantage of a building on bare ground

• starting in on bare ground allows worms and other organisms to aerate the compost and to be transported to your garden bed
• less expensive
  

Advantages for using a container

• which may keep it looking nicer
  
• work faster da

Carbon

• Sticks
• Stems
• Bits of wood
• Sawdust pellets
• Corn stalks
• Coffee filters

Nitrogen

• Food scraps
  
• Green leaves
• Mauners
• Green leave clipping
  
• Raw material
• Spend flowers
  

Green and Brown

• Carbon is Brown and Nitrogen is green
  

1/3 Green
2/3 brown

Steps

1. Lay twigs of straw
2. Add the compost materials (brown)
3. Add manure (green)
4. Keep moist
   
5. Cover
   
6. turn
   

1. Turning the pile once or twice per week
2. Add water as needed to keep the material damp

• 100-140 degrees fahrenheit
  

• Meats
• Bones
• Fatty foods
• Dairy products
• pet feces
• diseased plants

They dont heat suffiencienty and they leave harmful bacterial and cant attract rodents and other pest

1. Worms
2. Slugs
3. Insects