Home Composting Made Easy

By C. Forrest McDowell, PhD & Tricia Clark-McDowell

With over 2 million copies in print, this is the world’s most popular guide on home composting! Used throughout North America by hundreds of municipalities, counties, waste management districts, states, organizations, and businesses. Absolutely the easiest and funniest book to read about composting. Fully illustrated in color 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 Composting, Compost & Nutrition, Setting Up Your System, Composting Systems, 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, and additional resources. A must have for any composter!

Softcover – 32 pp