Composting is the process of breaking down organic material into usable fertilizer for soil and plants. Or in our case it's a way to throw stuff away without actually throwing it away. With equal parts "green" (fruit and veggie leftovers, tea bags, grass) and "brown" (dead leaves, twigs, egg shells) items you can create a pile that will be munched on by "heaters" (bacteria and fungi) and "chompers" (worms, beetles, woodlice). Can you tell that part was written for children? There's lots of ways you can compost and many different opinions on how to compost most efficiently, etc etc. The EPA has some good info, if you'd like to check it out. Our composting habits consist of dumping random organic stuff into a little blue bin outside of our kitchen door and then periodically carrying it to our compost pile, which hasn't been turned in forever because we're letting some little pumpkins grow (or were? I don't know where the pumpkins went, the huge stalks and leaves at the front were the only evidence of pumpkin-ness when I went out to take pictures). Pretty basic stuff but our trash can fills up only once a week. Actually, we found out by accident that one bag can last us two weeks because we forgot to take the trash out last week and we're still on the same bag one week later. Success! It's a pretty wonderful system.
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