This is how I compost my household food & garden waste with chipdrop!
I have the 3 piles, I made the structures out of old wire fencing that was left behind when we moved in. I do a cold method with very little bulk turning, basically moving material from one pile to another. From left to right we’ll call them pile 1, 2 and 3. First picture is all of them, second picture is what my middle pile looks like and third photo is the 3rd pile, you can see that pile 2 is more finished and pile 3 has more recognizable chip. Picture 4 is a piece of cow bone (probably hoof or ankle) that has been slowly breaking down for a couple years. At this point I can crumble it with my fingers.
I started with a pile of fresh chipdrop but have recently used that up.
My active pile is all the way to the left (pile 1). I have a 5 gallon bucket that I fill about halfway with browns, then add the kitchen scraps on top and dump whenever it’s full or funky. If needed I add more brown on top to cover the green material.
I am currently using pile 3 as my brown material. It has been composted with green once already which is why it’s partially decomposed. Basically I’m recycling the brown and re-composting it.
Pile 2 (in the middle) is closest to being finished and has been “recomposted” twice already. I’m letting it go passively for the moment. When piñe 3 is all used (dumped back onto pile 1) I will probably turn pile 2 into that space to finish cooking and curing. Or if it looks done enough I’ll do a fall application on fallow garden space.
Hopefully I did a good job explaining all of this, it sounds pretty convoluted, but it’s actually quite simple!
by OutrageousDraw6625