When it’s straw that’s been used in rabbit cages and it’s soaked with bunny pee and poop. Ta-da! Your “brown” (carbon) straw is now a green (nitrogen) when you toss it onto your compost pile. This is why I keep telling everyone not to attempt to measure greens and browns – it gets all mixed up anyway. Like when you eat a salami and swiss cheese sandwich then chase it with a Heineken; it’s all one big concoction in your stomach. Who can tell what’s what anymore, am I right?

Just do your best to add either a little carbon and a little nitrogen when you’re adding to the compost pile. Maybe switch off materials every other day. Whatevah. But please don’t over-think the process. Composting at home just isn’t that complicated.

Put it this way, if you meet someone at a party and they say, “Hi, I’m Joe Exceptional, I’m a brain surgeon. What is it do you do?”

With a little hair toss, you come back at them with, “Oh well, I make my own compost”. Know that there’s going to be a really uncomfortable silence. (It’s just not the same thing at all.)