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WHY COMPOST

What is Compost?

Benefits of Composting

Using Finished Compost

Compost & Nutrition




SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM

Composting Systems

Siting Your Compost Area

Stockpiling



COMPOSTING BASICS

What to Compost

Stages of Composting

The Carbon:Nitrogen Ratio

Compost Activators

Turning Your Compost



HOW TO COMPOST

Quick Start Guide

The Add-as-you-go Pile

The Batch Pile

Grass Clippings

Food Scraps

Leaves, Weeds &
Garden Debris

Compost Tea

Worm Composting



COMPOST PROBLEMS

Troubleshooting Guide

Ask Professor Rot


 
 


 
 
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What you need to compost at home is only a few basics. First consider a good illustrated guide. How about a kitchen pail for food scraps! Perhaps you might need a quick-activating activator. Very importantly, consider the perfect tool (and invention!) for the job of turning your compost pile: a compost aerator! All these are availabe below, at the best prices on the planet! Sorry, we don't sell compost bins.

NOTE: Our secure Shopping Cart allows you to pay securely with Paypal, through our parent website One Sanctuary. Your credit card statement will identify our business name as CORTESIA.

 

Home Composting Made Easy
by Christopher Forrest McDowell, PhD & Tricia Clark-McDowell
Cortesia Press, Eugene, OR

The world's most popular composting guide. Over 1,000,000 in print! And we wrote it! Yahoozy!

32-pages, color illustrated.  Cortesia Press (5th edition 2008)

$3.95
Price includes shipping
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Compost Aerator

We think this is the best turner at the best price on the planet! A must have for solving a bunch of compost problems. Especially useful for top loading compost bins or chasing down purse snatchers (ouch!).

$18.95   (+ shipping)
U.S. Priority Mail shipping (2-3 day delivery) will be added to this price according to your zip code

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QR Compost Activator

Give your compost pile a kick in the butt! This packet of enzyme-release activator is guaranteed to get it all hot & bothered. That's good, reeeal good!

$3.95
Price includes shipping
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Kitchen Compost Pail

This is simply the nicest food scrap pail we have seen. Could almost double as a lunchbox or Wonder Woman's purse (just kidding!).

$9.95   (+ $8.00 shipping)
This item is shipped U.S. Parcel Post for a flat fee of $8.00 anywhere in the United States (a good deal!)
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garden nutrition book

Gardening for Optimal Nutrition
by Christopher Forrest McDowell, PhD & Tricia Clark-McDowell
Cortesia Press, Eugene, OR

This is the only publication of its kind that makes the explicit connection between gardening & nutrition. Learn how to bolster the nutritional content of your garden, including what to grow. Chock full of earth-friendly ideas and step-by-step instructions for garden designs; nutritional, harvesting, storage and eating tips for over 40 vegetables & fruits. Written in a "farmer's almanac" style.

Over 100,000 in print! Used by the America the Beautiful Fund in their seed giveaway program to needy households. Distributed widely to WIC (Women-Infant-Children) and Birth-to-Three programs throughout the United States.

$3.95
Price includes shipping

 




 

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