Questions on composting

[CHICKENHEAD]

Ok first off I am interested in starting a compost pile. My idea was to build a box or make a box out of used palets. Things I would put in the compost would be mulched up grass clippings and mulched up leaves. Chicken waste in pine shavings, Rotten vegetables and small sticks. Would I have to turn the pile for it work naturally, or could I just put it all in the box and wait?

[DM]

Why not save yourself some work, and put all that stuff straight into the garden?

DM

[pergammano]

I always have several composts on the go, made the above way, but I also layer in seaweed, and garden lime. I'm lazy, and I have never turned the pile. I sell the compost (have for 29 years.) I go to the 2 local stores & pick up their veg/fruit trimmings...they are happy to get rid of it.

[bee_pipes]

The Humanure Handbook (http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html) available on-line for free

[Av8rTx]

Don't forget coffee grounds, filters and all, autumn leaves, kitchens scraps-vegetable. I bring home coffee filters from work, throw in tea bags etc. I also add old coffee grounds direct to tomatoes and strawberries as well as azalea bushes. And yes you can just leave it and wait. I have a double bin made of old pallets. I have one "active" and one I am removing compost from. After a year I transfer the fresher stuff from the top of the old active pile to the bottom of the new active pile and screen lovely compost from about the middle to the bottom of the old pile.
Screening isn't necessary, I just like the look.

[Florida_boy]

Everything looks good except the pine shavings. they'll take forever to break down because of the rosin.