I'm a lazy composter.
Before I made my own compost I was pretty intimidated by it all. You can find actual books, (ones with more than 100 pages!!) on JUST compost. There is a lot of technical stuff about your green matter and brown matter. There are things you can build and buy to make it happen faster and contain it. You can worry about the pile temperature. You can add stuff to help with the breaking down of matter.
I don't do any of that.
I start with some dirt. I add some kitchen scraps. I add more dirt. I add more scraps. I turn the pile once in a while. (my pitchfork is the only tool I use to make compost) It becomes compost. It all breaks down. Oh sure, I'm sure there are people making compost faster than I am, but I'm not in a compost contest or anything.
I do however, LOVE adding stuff to it. This evening we had Japanese food with my in-laws. These bento box dinners come with this weird Iceberg lettuce salad with ginger dressing. My husband likes the dressing but no one really eats the salad. I brought home 4 take out boxes of salad and while my husband will probably eat 2 of them, I secretly imagine the other 2 in my compost pile. I know it's a sin to waste food. Is it a sin to want to compost it?????
I pretty much add any of the things to my pile you can see in the graphic above. Except for fish-Yeah, I DO remember that story about the Indians showing the pilgrims how to grow better corn by putting a fish in the hole with the seed. But fish in my compost would attract even more animals to the yard than I already have.
Oh, and I noticed a chocolate chip cookie in that graphic as well. Who, pray tell, actually has a chocolate chip cookie scrap they can't eat laying around????
***Small note-If you plan on composting you probably should get out a book or do some research into the kind of things you can and should not compost. You should not, for instance, compost anything with oil or animal fat in it, while tea bags and egg shells are just fine!
