LK>  easy way of making Compost - We do have lots of wood chips that the road
LK>  have grass clippings to add as we have basicly what is called Field 
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Whenever I see "lots of" in the same sentence as  "making
compost" my reaction is "Balance!".
Making a compost bin: almost any material, a 44-gal drum with the
top and bottom chopped out and holes in the side for breathing, a
circular enclosure of chicken-wire, etc. My favorite was bucolic 
construction using four-foot lengths of assorted timbers. Old 
pallettes from construction sites make great sources of this 
stuff. 
A 4' by 4' by 4' bin is pretty nifty. Make a series of them, if
you are really keen, then you can toss the side-scrapings (see 
below) into the next in sequence. 
As a minimum you are going to add layers of soil (there's your
first attempt at balance) and wood-chips into the bin. Worms,
micro-organisms, bacteria, nematodes, and users of Word Perfect
5.1 for DOS will migrate from the soil and break down the wood
chips.
Your piles will probably improve with judicious augmentation of
chicken, cow or horse manure, but *not* cat or dog droppings.
There's a bit more balance.  Kitchen scraps (but not vermin-
attrcating meat or dairy products, since your piles are outside) 
provide more balance, a more balanced diet for the grubbly-
wubblies, and a dash of other bacteria. 
It is important to get a balance between carbon and nitrogen. I
think that the manures provide nitrogen and the chips/grass
clippings (which you don't have) provide carbon.
Big mistake is usually tossing seven cubic miles of grass
clippings into a heap and expecting them to decompose to compst.
They degenerate into an anerobic mass of jelly. Yuk!
My ex-father-in-law, before he died, used to rake the twigs and
branches off the lawn, and just toss them onto a pile. When the
pile was about three feet high, he began extending it to the
West. At the time I knew him, he had a fairly decent stockpile of
well-rotted material at one end, but that had taken several
years. He didn't *do* anything with it, sad to relate.
If you have enough space, plan to set up three or more bins. Load
the first one at let it start its business. Load the second with
more stuff, ditto. Load the third, but just before it fills up,
empty the first bin. Use the interior of that pile, the most-
rotted stuff, for mulch etc, and take the outside layers, only
partly decomposed, and add them to the third. It is possible to
break down almost anything by this cascade method of serial
composters.
FWIW when I had a house, I used to toss all my office-paper,
crumpled into balls, into a composter. It rotted down something
beautiful.
I hope this helps.
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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