So does anyone have idea's on where to get good 'brown' material for a compost pile? I have grass clippings for days, but no brown material this time of year. All the local wood processing businesses have started charging for their waste material...
I seem to have this issue with composting. Either I can get tons of green and no brown. Or I can get tons of brown, but no green material. So I end up having to dispose of the excess green material to keep unpleasant smells in check.
what I do man, is simply get some alfalfa feed as your greens. When you can't get the greens that is...
And man... I am going to RAPE the area around my neck of the woods this year for it leaves.
I got SOOO many last yr, and they STILL ended up like a 15th of the size when I started. Not enough for my leafmold..
My leaf shredder broke...
Layer alfalfa over the leaves, you can use amendments too, I used old bat guano (the nitrogen one), shrimp meal, grass clippingss
BUT your question was for browns..
You have access to a forest?
Rotten wood chunks from fallen tree logs would work, and is also a good way to add aeration and humus.
Another idea is maybe some old soil?
primarily you want to provide aeration to the greens, so in theory you could layer it with any aeration, stuff like perlite or whatever.
That's why I suggested old soil.
Obviously you DO want the correct ratio of carbons to nitrogen