Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening

Making and Using Compost

Unit 1.7 | 31
Assessment Questions

12. Imagine that you have an unlimited amount of each of the following materials for composting:
    straw, chicken manure, horse manure, food scraps, greenish-brownish crop residues and weeds, and
    sawdust. How would you make a pile using these materials? Draw a diagram of the pile you would
    create. Discuss your layering, including thickness of each layer, order, water added or not. Add a short
    description of your suggested management plan (turning, monitoring).