Winter Composting: the Plan

With the House passing Senate bill S510 and it's on it's way to the president's desk, all of us little people need to topple what we can of the empire by eroding their consumer base.  Consumer base?  The US Government doesn't have a consumer base, does it?  Yep. Our government has been bought and paid for by corporate America and is being an unwitting dupe in the instrumentation towards making all American citizens into zombies.  Therefore, it falls as a duty to keep as many people from becoming zombies as possible.  Zombies are easily controlled, and they are mollified by comforting beige foods and blinking screens that spout "reality" television.  Zombies are kept on the treadmill by making them deep in debt, working to maintain that debt, eating BARF, heavily medicated and thus reliant on corporate America to keep them alive so they can continue their greasy, dry existence.

Our government wants us to eat BARF.  BARF is not acceptable food, and will turn you into a zombie.  I encourage you to eat food you produce or know where it comes from, so you know the safety of your food system, no matter what the bought and paid for government wants.

Many of us live where the soil is questionable at best, so we end up amending it with various liquids and solids to make it into better soil.  I encourage using as much basic compost as possible so to avoid using things you can not pronounce, much less using things that might eat your skin if you don't have gloves.  Do you really want to eat something grown in that?  Compost.  Compost is where it's at.

Summer composting is easy, garden scraps, lawn clippings, leaves and shredded office paper.  Easy.  Winter in a northern state, however, might be a different kettle of fish.  Our plan (now that it's December and our composter is almost full and I'm casting about for another idea) will be to do what is called "in place" composting.  In place composting is essentially building your compost pile where you want a future garden or where you are having a garden at rest for the year.  You essentially build your pile and add to it all year, the following spring, take the walls down, rake it out and build another compost pile elsewhere.

So, next year, we will build a winter compost pile where we want a new garden, and build it with some pallets that we'll insulate with corrugated cardboard, and will have an insulated lid.  We'll attempt to keep it warm all winter, but realistically, the compost cycle will start with winter, go through spring and summer, get pulled down in the fall and covered with leaves for the following spring planting.  Quite a plan, eh?

I'll try to take pictures of this as we go, but, alas, that project will have to wait until the thaw.

Don't trust the government, they're shifty.