Basic School Composting Recipe
The ingredients:
- Carbon: brown, woody, dry materials such as fallen leaves, sawdust, straw, newspaper, or paper towels. Bulky materials, including branches should be chopped or shredded.
- Nitrogen: green, wet materials, such as food scraps, grass clippings, plant material, and manures.
- Moisture (just a little, like a damp sponge)
- A little Soil or Compost
- Air
- A Compost Holding Bin
- A Shovel or Pitch fork
- Students
