Basic Composting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics) (Basic How-to Guides)

This book is awesome! It has the information you need to know about every stage of creating great compost. The photos are wonderful. The science behind composting is explained well so that you can understand why the mix of materials is important and which materials should not be included. Also well described are the different choices in compost bins... which work the best... which are the least expensive, etc. Using this book as a reference will help anyone become proficient in creating this valuable garden additive.Basic Composting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics) (Basic How-to Guides)

This book is excellent for beginning composters. I'm still gathering supplies and learning all of the vocabulary and this book was very helpful for that. I definitely recommend it.

good book overall; good book to get started with composting. If you are looking for a detailed book about composting this is NOT the book for you. Very helpful in understanding the basics.

I have recently purchase a few books about composting an this one it's a very nice one.
This book has everything you need to know in a very simple pictorial guide.

This is a very helpful book to have at your side when composting and is simple enough for us that are just beginning to compost. I am a very science-y, down-to-the-nity-gritty-biology kind of guy so some of of it seems too simplified. That's why I didn't give the fifth star. But, all in all, it really is a good book and I like the spiral bound style that allows it to stay open while you are actually in the process of composting. I am now in search of a more detailed book about vermiculture (worm-poop ranching!)