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Welcome to your online resource for learning how to compost! 

What You Should Compost

• Kitchen scraps such as vegetables, eggshells, fruit peeling, and coffee grounds
• Garden and yard material such as grass clippings, leaves, annual plants, and vegetables
• Manure from plant-eating animals only (NOT from household pets)
• Cardboard (including the GEOBIN box)
• DO NOT COMPOST: bones, meat scraps, dairy, twigs/branches

How to Compost?

• Alternate layers of organic waste, separating layers with non-glossy newsprint
• Keep moist (not WET, but MOIST—like a squeezed-out sponge)
• Turn every 4-6 weeks to aid aeration
• Add thin layers of soil to improve the process