Have you triec(at.home) composting?

I tried composting leaves for a time but it just wasn't anywhere near good enough to handle the volume. I gave it up and now I pay to have them hauled away. We can't add other things here like garbage or dung that might help promote the process.

Grass stays where it falls.
 
Yes. We donā€™t compost grass and leaves since we have far too much but we DO compost fruit and vegetable rinds/ skin, cores, tea, coffee, small pieces of paper.
Large pieces of paper we burn in our burn barrel.

We also get 1 to 3 tons of compost made from lobster and crab from our local garbage dump. They process all the waste from the lobster and processing plant and sell it for $40 a ton. Itā€™s fresh and clean compost. Itā€™s inspected and certified twice a year. It goes all all our gardens to help them grow.
 
I do not do it now. I did it at my house for almost 20 years. It included horse manure, household compost, etc. Especially from vegetables since I had a garden and canned a lot of food. We had 3 piles, one we added to in the present year and two others. One was 3 years old and that was the one we used for the garden and our composting toilet. In winter the compost would be steaming right through the snow.
 
Oh sure, I have a big compost bin outside for outdoor stuff (excess grass clippings, dead-headed flowers, corn husks, weeds and other outside stuff I can't remember right now.) I have a big compost bin in the kitchen that will be picked up once a week with the recycle bins and garbage pails.
 
We mulch leaves for compost in fall. Household items throughout year. Weā€™ve got a small back yard so itā€™s not a big job. I try to turn it over every couple weeks. The compost bin isnā€™t very big. Every year I empty it on a different area in back yard.
 
When we were raising guinea hogs we cleaned their pens and made two large compost bins. We let the fresh manure "cook" for about 3 weeks and put it into the next bin. We also put mulch leaves and left over vegetable scraps in also. It was ready for the garden in about a month. We turned it every few days. It really does get very hot. We had the best vegetable gardens when using it. :)
 
When we were in our house, we had a compost bin in the backyard. Long story, short .. racoons became attracted to it - then, they climbed up and got into our attic.

We had to stop putting food scraps (vegetable peelings, etc) into the compost, and used it for grass clippings and weeds, only.
 

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