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Re: brown stuff composting

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Manure, in spite of its brown appearance, is technically a 'green' as far as
composting is concerned, meaning it has a carbon to nitrogen ratio of less
than 30 to 1.

Manure is a traditional compost activator; these days, however, care must be
exercised since some sources of manure are contaminated with things like
vermicides and pesticides. (Not Martha's, I hope and believe....:-)

Another 'fool-the-eye' substance is coffee grounds, visually brown but a
good nitrogen source, and thus a 'green' in the composter's pantheon of
feedstocks...

Frank---has made wood chip compost with minimal greens, successfully---the
key thing here is to remember you are feeding a microherd, diversified and
varying from place to place----they are the ones who say 'yes' or 'no' to
any recipe you may try----and they may say 'yes' at your place and no
somewhere else, depending....YMMV (yer microherd may vary...:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Wells <flylo@txcyber.com>
To: 'sqft@listbot.com' <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 8:56 AM
Subject: brown stuff composting


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>Since most of my green stuff either gets mulched back into the yard or is
>eaten by our livestock, most of my compost is manure and brown stuff.
>(spoiled hay, bedding, etc). I may have the luxury of raking and putting
>lawn clippings or vegetation on the compost about every 5th time I pile new
>material on. Doesn't seem to matter, it all still breaks down eventually.
>I've never gone by a recipe, since I rarely have all the ingredients.
>(My cooking suffers the same fate.)
>martha
>
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