The Greens and Browns of Your Compost

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Using chemically contaminated plants or rotten fruit peels will infect your compost.
Using chemically contaminated plants or rotten fruit peels will infect your compost.
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“Compost City” by Rebecca Louie teaches readers how to best make and use their own compost in small living spaces.
“Compost City” by Rebecca Louie teaches readers how to best make and use their own compost in small living spaces.

Compost City (Roost Books, 2015) by Rebecca Louie is a comprehensive and complete guide to creating and using your own compost in a small living space. Louie helps you find ways to work around a tiny space, a busy schedule, and hectic lifestyle to achieve your composting goals. In this excerpt, she discusses the green and browns materials that are good and bad for composting.

Get to know how different browns and greens behave in your system and curate compost ingredients to optimize moisture levels, troubleshoot problems, and af­fect the rate of decomposition.

Knowing the quirks of individual items is particularly helpful if your com­post system has limited space or is in proximity of wary or sensitive neighbors.

Easy Items That Break Down Quickly

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  • Published on Mar 16, 2018
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