Whats the best way to get started with home composting?
Here In Framingham Ma, the DPW will sell you a compost bin for $20. We got one a few years ago and its down in the back corner. I put kitchen waste, leaves, dirt, some grass clippings and let it sit full for several months. Occasionally I turn it over to prevent it from becoming a yellow jacket nest like it did the first year. Be sure to cover fresh kitchen waste with dirt and mix in leaves and grass to keep the animals and bugs down. Otherwise you get raccoons and flies in that order. Eggshells are fine for composting, but meat and dairy are not. I throw in coffee filters and all… Plain piles of grass tend to go moldy. I think its best to mix grass clippings with dirt and compost as soon as possible. The plastic bins are nowhere near enough to handle everything our fairly large yard puts out, so I’m doing what my dad did. He has an area about 8 x8 feet divided in two 4 ft wide sections. He just piles stuff up on one side and turns it to the other side every few weeks A few back and
