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What is composting?

Composting is nature's way of recycling. Leaves fall, plants die, and the soil breaks them down into food for the next generation of growth. A compost pile is the same process, managed on purpose.

When you compost, billions of microorganisms eat through your food scraps and yard waste. They need four things: nitrogen-rich greens like vegetable scraps and coffee grounds, carbon-rich browns like dry leaves and cardboard, moisture, and air. Give them a decent balance of those and they turn scraps into dark, crumbly compost.

Why bother? Three reasons. Food scraps sent to the landfill get buried without air, where they rot slowly and release methane. Composted scraps skip that. Second, finished compost feeds soil better than almost anything you can buy. It improves structure, holds water, and supports the living things that make dirt healthy. Third, it turns a cost into a resource. What you were paying to throw away becomes something gardeners, farmers, and ranchers genuinely want.

That last part is the whole idea behind Kitchen2Compost: scraps are not trash, they are supply.

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