Ron Krupp: The art and science of backyard composting

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ron Krupp, who is the author of “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening.” It originally aired on Vermont Public Radio.
Friend and fellow gardener Fred Schmidt and I have been offering composting workshops to the public at the Tommy Thompson Community Garden at the Intervale in Burlington, under the auspices of the Chittenden Regional Solid Waste District.
It won’t be long before we’ll all have to recycle food scraps. There’s al