Conservation

A modified method of hot composting

When I was a kid, I remember my dad piling leaves and grass clippings into an area in the back of the yard. Eventually, the pile would yield a loamy substance called compost. As time went on, he began to use one of those compost tumblers, a large plastic vessel with a crank. Into the tumbler went leaves and grass clippings again, but the results were more rapid. The increased heat and mixing seemed to yield compost much faster.