Composting 101! Everything you need to know to get started making your own compost. Greens (energy): fresh grass clippings, dairy/chicken/rabbit manure, fruit and vegetable scraps, garden trimmings, coffee grounds, bedding from plant eating animals. Browns (bulking): wood chips, sawdust, hay, straw, corn stalks, cardboard, shredded paper. Balanced: deciduous leaves, horse manure with bedding, ground up tree and shrub trimmings, legume hay Avoid composting these: meat products, animal droppings f

New to composting? I have you covered. In this video, we covered hot composting, a really common method, but there are many other ways to successfully compost. Composting consists of broken down organic materials. It can act as a soil amendment, slow feed for you plants, or even a mulch. Most of what we compost will fall into three categories:Browns (carbon rich): newspaper, wood chips, sawdust, straw, cornstalks, cardboard Greens (nitrogen rich): grass clippings, fresh manure, fruit and vegetab