Winter composting only sounds intimidating when you live in a cold climate.
KNOW YOUR INGREDIENTS
These are greens
KNOW YOUR INGREDIENTS
These are browns
Step 1
CONSIDER LOCATION. If your main composter or heap is across the yard, make it easier over the winter and get a secondary compost bin. Keep your secondary bin easy to access.
Step 2
CONSIDER SIZE. Keeping a large secondary compost is great BUT. Once it's full it can be a bear to move. We use a 5 gallon bucket. It's big enough to hold 2-3 weeks worth of scraps and small enough to carry to our pile when necessary.
Step 3
DIG IT: no, really. Sweep the snow out of the way till you find your last compost additions.
Step 4
FILL IT UP! Empty your secondary compost bucket on top of previous additions.
Step 5
BURY IT: Once the scraps are added to the pile, recover it with snow.
Step 6
DON'T STOP!! Keep on composting to keep those food scraps and waste paper out of landfills, and turn it into healthy soil for use in your own planters, garden and more. .