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    How to Make Compost
    How to Make Compost
    How to Make Compost
    Ebook59 pages41 minutes

    How to Make Compost

    By Renee Benzaim

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    Do you remember the delicious taste of a freshly picked, sun-ripened tomato?

    One fond memory I have about my Dad is the look on his face when he took that first bite. He would go to his garden, pick the most perfect tomato he could find, wipe the dust off on his sleeve, and bite into the tomato. Pure joy would light up his face!

    He didn't have to worry if the tomatoes, or other garden vegetables and fruits, were contaminated with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He made his own compost and that's what he used.

    In this booklet, you will learn the basics of composting, and several different methods you can use to handle your kitchen scraps, dog feces, and cat litter..

    As you learn how to compost, you will save money on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and you will keep your garbage out of our over-flowing landfills. (Booklet: 10,800 words)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRenee Benzaim
    Release dateApr 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476422886
    How to Make Compost
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    Renee Benzaim

    Renee Benzaim was born in Wenatchee, Washington, but grew up in Northern California. She wrote her first short story when she was in the third grade and discovered her love of putting words on paper.Her novels include the popular Detective Annie Avants crime fiction series, which is set in Kern County, California. Annie has become very popular with readers and some call her the next "Nancy Drew". She will publish the fifth novel in this series in the Summer of 2016.Her other books include Coyote's Song, the story of a five-year-old Miwok Indian girl who disappears. Ten years later, a reknowned writer sets out to solve the mystery of Evangeline's disappearance.In addition, Renee has written three non-fiction books: How to Make Compost; Salsa!; and Can Men Get Yeast Infections?She lives with her husband in a home and gardens surrounded by a stone wall. This small piece of paradise is the home of an ever=growing number of cats and one shaggy dog.

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      How to Make Compost - Renee Benzaim

      HOW TO MAKE COMPOST

      a Mini-Guide

      by Renée Benzaim

      All Rights Reserved © 2012 Renée Benzaim

      Smashwords Edition

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      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      What is Compost?

      The Different Methods Explained

      Bokashi

      Worm Compost

      Compost Tea

      Mushroom Compost

      Urban Composting

      Extend Your Compost Season

      Winter Composting

      Tools & Tips

      A Sand County Almanac

      Conclusion

      History of Making Compost

      The Father of Modern Compost Making

      Resources

      About the Author

      INTRODUCTION

      I can still see the joy in my Dad's eyes as he stood in his garden and bit into a sun-warmed tomato he had just picked off the vine.

      Or watching my Mom pop a strawberry in her mouth from time to time as she picked a big bowl of perfectly ripe fruit for our strawberry shortcake dessert.

      Or the autumn smell of a pot of stew simmering on the stove chock full of veggies from our garden.

      Or canning jars full of veggies and fruit from the season's harvest that my Grandma had just finished putting up proudly sitting on the kitchen counter.

      Or that first chomp on an ear of corn, dripping with real butter, at a backyard family get together on the Fourth of July. This is the way we lived - and our people before us - and before them.

      We didn't use chemicals on our gardens - to keep out the bugs or to fertilize the plants - and we didn't think of ourselves as organic farmers or any other fancy name.

      We used compost to give our plants what they needed and companion planting to help control the critters.

      Of course, we had plenty of kitchen scraps for our compost because that's the way we ate. And nothing was wasted.

      We didn't have three big cans of garbage that had to be hauled off to the landfill every week.

      We recycled before we knew what that word meant.

      Meat scraps went to the animals.

      Canning jars were reused every season.

      Tin cans - the few we had - collected nails and other odds and ends in the shed part of the pump house.

      Worn out clothes went into the rag bag and sometimes ended up as a new quilt. Usable, outgrown clothes went to the church.

      We lived on 13 acres in the country and our compost system was a pile and a pitchfork. It worked for us as it has for countless other people around the world.

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      Compost is free, it's clean, and readily available to anyone to produce in this day and age.

      You won't have to soak your lettuce, or other veggies, in a tub full of water to which you've added vinegar and salt in order to

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