Sometimes I marvel at how easy composting is. Years ago I thought it was a complicated balance and couldn't get a handle on the "browns to greens" ratio thing or how often stirring the pile up with a pitchfork was required or what temperature it should heat up to and for how long.
Over the years we've come up with our method. It involves an out-of-the-way spot in the yard where we throw everything: kitchen scraps (even meat), yard trimmings, spent or buggy bits from the garden, weeds, leaves, shells from shellfish, litter from the chicken coop, etc. If it can rot, it goes in there. Then the chickens eat what they want out of it and turn it for us. Hey, if they're free-range and going to scratch incessantly anyway, we might as well put them to work for us!
When I need compost, I rake back the chunky stuff and shovel out rich black soil. It's not rocket science.
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