…When your homie next door decides he wants a chicken house and makes it happen. The most brilliant part of this project is the fact that it wasn’t my vision, is was Kalum’s and I all I had to do was show him how to safely use tools and demonstrate that it can be done.

A half decent way to clean up green waste/make soil/sequester carbon and nitrogen?
I generally cut all green waste up into foot long pieces or less, add leaves, wood 1” diameter and less, anything from the Kingdom Plantae. I pile up into approx 1m3 round Mounds.
Optimal is half green/wet/Nitrogen/kitchen scraps, half brown/dry plants & leaves/woody material, but I use what I have. If it’s on the woody side I know it’s going to be slower, if it’s on the green side I accept most nitrogen will be lost into the air and the pile will shrink a lot. I tend to use bigger branches as borders of garden beds to encourage mycelium and retain water or bury them in the bed for the same reasons. Otherwise, it’s firewood or #biochar creation (simplified: essentially charcoal soaked in nitrogen).
I put a whole/chimney in to vent and so that I can check if gets hot enough to denature seeds and kill any resilient species such as knotweed or blackberries. If it doesn’t get hot ( 40C/ too warm to want to hold the hand in the chimney for long 🤓) after 7 days, I wait for more nitrogen/green and use any excess brown material as mulch for your favourite tree. Otherwise, I turn it on day 8 and then every 4 days until it’s ready (in a perfect world) 20 days or so if it’s getting hot enough, usually It’s not being used until seedlings are planted in the spring and the fresh compost works well to keep the snails and slugs away (they prefer leaf litter or climbing over other plants). Oh, and I usually put some old compost or soil in to inoculate it and pee on it a few times to kick start it.👌 When flail and don’t let it get hot enough, I’ve had some weeds, but they are easy to weed out when they are small. I simply keep an eye out in the spring, where Ive used it and chop n drop.

Other options include being really selective and then tracking all the other ‘waste’ away and buying it back as soil later – Suboptimal IMO

Anyone got a more optimal way? Please link and or explain, please and thank you 🙏🤙