{"id":7546,"date":"2023-12-24T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2023-12-24T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T00:16:26","slug":"a-recipe-for-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/programs\/a-recipe-for-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"A recipe for compost!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the organics recycling e-newsletter distributed recently by BioCycle Connect, writer Jorge Montezuma noted that while composting is both an art and a science, a &#8220;key variable that must be determined is the composting mixture recipe.&#8221;  Starting your recipe with four good basics is what can really get it going:  food wastes and other &#8220;feedstock&#8221; materials with specific carbon-to-nitrogen ratios as well as moisture, bulk density (organic matter, ash, etc.) and free air flow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article gets a bit technical but may be of interest to you.   Check it out at this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-biocycle wp-block-embed-biocycle\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oCb7SZsP79\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biocycle.net\/whats-your-ideal-composting-recipe\/\">What\u2019s Your Ideal Composting Recipe?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What\u2019s Your Ideal Composting Recipe?&#8221; &#8212; BioCycle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biocycle.net\/whats-your-ideal-composting-recipe\/embed\/#?secret=V2FILIGhP7#?secret=oCb7SZsP79\" data-secret=\"oCb7SZsP79\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the organics recycling e-newsletter distributed recently by BioCycle Connect, writer Jorge Montezuma noted that while composting is both an art and a science, a &#8220;key variable that must be determined is the composting mixture recipe.&#8221; Starting your recipe with four good basics is what can really get it going: food wastes and other &#8220;feedstock&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-your-yard","category-programs","category-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}