I found this book checked out by my daughter last week and grabbed it right up. It presents information simply but with exact and necessary explanations of what happens during composting, the history of composting (first evidence of manure being used in composting 1000 years before Moses, written on clay tablets), little drawings of many different types of compost bins. Even the type I do which is really basic. I like to layer carbon, manure and debris, wet and lay plastic over, no air and then in the summer turn it over every few days. My compost travels around my garden and doesn't find a home. In winter I'll leave it open and it stays in one place.
But on page 181 there is an illustration of the Lehigh bin that uses alternating 2 by 4s held together with 3/8-inch rods. You could pull the rods out of one end, reverse the bin and transfer the composting humus to the opposite side-slide in the rods again. I might like to try air composting that way.
It has ideas about where to obtain materials for composting and also a list of Percentage Compostion of Various Materials, which is interesting. And...whether a material's effect on compost would be carbonaceous(C), nitrogenous(N), or other(O).pg.114-120. I am wondering if I could create a nice little hot compost bin in my camper to keep me warm this winter? Anybody have any ideas along that line?
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