I was wondering if this approach might be effective for harder to compost items like bones or raw meat scraps? Also do you think you could be less precise about the greens to browns when you just bury the compost? I am in Texas and getting spare leaves is not always easy and I am a little shy to put so much cardboard into my garden dirt...
I have def recommended this as a meat disposal method before! And less precision much easier to manage in a trench vs an open pile (or other type of compost). !!
Wanted to share that _Terra Preta_, the amazingly fertile dark earths of Amazonia, are largely attributed to what we might call "compost" of food scraps as well as wood charcoal and pottery fragments. This helped make it possible to practice agriculture in the poor soils of tropical rainforests! Not sure how ancient groups did it, but I would not be surprised if it was somewhat like a trench—maybe with some active encouragement for the charcoal and pottery.
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I was wondering if this approach might be effective for harder to compost items like bones or raw meat scraps? Also do you think you could be less precise about the greens to browns when you just bury the compost? I am in Texas and getting spare leaves is not always easy and I am a little shy to put so much cardboard into my garden dirt...
I have def recommended this as a meat disposal method before! And less precision much easier to manage in a trench vs an open pile (or other type of compost). !!
Wanted to share that _Terra Preta_, the amazingly fertile dark earths of Amazonia, are largely attributed to what we might call "compost" of food scraps as well as wood charcoal and pottery fragments. This helped make it possible to practice agriculture in the poor soils of tropical rainforests! Not sure how ancient groups did it, but I would not be surprised if it was somewhat like a trench—maybe with some active encouragement for the charcoal and pottery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta