Start Making Organic Compost At Home

When most people think of making their own compost at home, they likely cringe especially if worms are involved. I know that I did. Luckily, I overcame that fear and am now able to generate my own fresh organic compost in the kitchen. I was able to do it in my small NYC apartment, so I don’t want to hear space as an excuse.

According to the NYC Compost Project, “The average New York City household discards two pounds of organic waste each day—adding up to more than one million tons of organic material a year.”

Those are materials that can be used to help not only grow and feed your garden, they will cut into your costs since you already have them. It will also save all of that waste from going to the landfill. Making compost at home is a great first step to starting your own home vegetable garden.

The following pages talk about my experiences in making my own compost without worms. The information on worm composting has it’s own separate section. It not only has the lessons that I learned, but also includes the mistakes that I’ve made, so you can avoid them too.

Composting Tips: These include some shortcuts that I’ve picked up along the way that will help to make composting easier.

Composting Problems: Mistakes that I’ve made in composting and that you should avoid.

How To Make A Compost Bin: There are a few different ways that you can build a compost bin at home. I’ll show you how.

What To Compost: A listing of items that you can and shouldn’t toss into your compost bin.

Indoor Kitchen Composting: Demonstrating the different ways to compost in your kitchen.

Worm Composting: Using worms to create rich, nutrient dense compost for the garden.

Worm Composting Products
Worm Factory 360: A 4-tray upward migration composting system.

Worms for Composting: Buy 1,000 or 2,000 worms for your compost.