Summary

In this section, we have seen that food, heat, air, position and water are dependant upon one another to both attract the vital biological organisms to your bin to do the hard work for you, and deliver beautiful crumbly rich compost to spread on your plot.

Best organic practice symbolReflect: Which of the compost elements covered in this section could you refine to improve your own composting process? Are there any materials mentioned that you could compost rather than throw in the waste or recycling bin? 

Let's test our knowledge and see how much we can remember about the five foundations of good composting. 

Begin section 4: Choosing a compost bin

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