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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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Contaray to what a great many compost "experts" will tell you, ALL kitchen scraps can be composted. This includes meat and dairy products, oils and fats ect. Basically everything you might find on a "not to compost" list can in fact be composted so long as they are thoroughly covered just like the humanure deposits. Since the bin will be enclosed no animals can get in, and because the area of the pile where the materials will be deposited will be hot, rodents won't go near them either. Though keeping the materials thouroughly covered should be enough to keep from attracting their attention.
It used to be whenever I would deposit food scraps into my conventional compost piles (cow manure and leaves with the pile being turned regularly) some of the food scraps would find their way into the outer layers of the pile before they could decompose completely. This lead to my local mole population digging into the pile to retreive scraps, and their presence was obvious. But ever since I adopted the humanure composting method and started depositing my food scraps along with the humanure deposits, I've found that the moles would stear clear of them because the area with the food scraps would always be too hot for them to get to before the scraps decomposed completely, which, if you were to regularly turn the pile, those scraps could find their way into a cool area of the pile and attract moles, or mice if you have them.
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