Last season I decided to create a separate pile just for the carbon material. It is made of just leaves, wood chips, and twigs that are breaking down on their own.
It was the best improvement I did for the compost station. Last week my main pile went anaerobic and I was able to fix the pile by adding more carbon to it.
Also, I can deal better with the higher volumes of green material. It is nice to not have to worry about having too much of it. It is good doing a lot of work in the fall to harvest all of this brown material but the return on investment is worth it.
Now I can manage more volume and cover most of our needs.
