Home Composting Made Easy

Home Composting Made Easy is considered to be the best educational guide on home composting for the public. It is used throughout North America by hundreds of municipalities, counties, waste management districts, states, organizations, and businesses. Absolutely the easiest and funnest book to read about composting: Home Composting Made Easy is fully illustrated with step-by-step, no-nonsense instructions and state-of-the-art advice by gardening and compost experts. Content includes: What is Compost?, Benefits of Compost, Compost: Key to Nutrition, Setting Up Your System, Composting Systems, Siting Your Compost Area, Stockpiling Materials, Composting Basics, What to Compost, The Carbon/Nitrogen Ratio, How to Use Activators, Turning Your Pile, Composting: A Quick Start Guide, The Add-As-You-Go Pile, The Batch Pile, Grass Clippings, Food Scraps, Leaves & Weeds, Garden Debris, Worm Composting, Compost Tea, Stages of Composting, Using Finished Compost, Questions & Answers, Troubleshooting Chart, Resources

Professional garden and wellness educators, Dr. C. Forrest McDowell and Tricia Clark-McDowell have over 25 years of experience in their own 2-acre garden at their 22-acre Cortesia Sanctuary in Eugene, Oregon. Their 32-page Home Composting Made Easy (Cortesia Press) is the world's most popular guide for the home gardener, with over 1 million copies in print. It is used by hundreds of governmental agencies, organizations and businesses throughout North America. Their newest Made Easy guide is the 68-page Grow Your Own Food Made Easy (Cortesia Press, 2009), already a bestseller in the food security movement in North America.