Compost for the Suburban Hippy

As I mentioned in my first post of the new year, one of my goals for 2018 is to wrap my head around composting. In our vegetable garden, we're following a mixture of square foot and no-dig gardening, both of which call for large quantities of compost on a regular basis. Last year, we rented a car and picked up loads of free compost from our local council. Not only does the need to rent a car negate the benefits of "free" compost, it wasn't particularly good compost. It was full of large chunks of wood and little bits of plastic. A year later, I'm still pulling brightly-colored bits out of the vegetable bed every time I go out to harvest or weed. So, to take matters into my own hands, I bought myself a copy of How to Make and Use Compost by Nicky Scott and started looking for ways to make more compost, and faster.