If you're in an apartment, a balcony, a condo, a townhouse, even just a suburban home, there's

a lot of different options for composting, at least four or five different ways that I

can think of off the top of my head, so how do you actually choose the one that is right

for you? Well, today we have Alyssa Brodsky back on the podcast. She is creating a compost

network over at a company called Food to Soil. I know we talked yesterday Alyssa about

why it's so important to compost in the first place, and then the sort of overwhelm of knowledge

or technique, and I'm curious at what you guys see as far as different methods, you have

a way to recommend like a framework to choose what method to use.

Yeah, definitely. So the first aspect of your environment that you need to look at is

your climate. So we're here in San Diego where it's warm and dry, you're going to want to

find something that's enclosed, that won't dry out very easily, and that's going to be important

to seeing a successful compost pile. If you're in a wet environment that's raining all the time,

you're going to need to change the compost method that you're looking at. The three main compost

methods, or I should say there's probably a zillion, but there's hot composting that is the

most standard one that we think of, the compost, the food scraps, the green waste, and the brown

waste all come together and create heat, and that's hot composting. There's vermicomposting or

warm composting where you're using worms to break down your food waste, and then there's

bokashi. I don't have a lot of experience with bokashi, so I don't want to go too into it, but it's

using an easy five gallon bucket and decomposing that food waste in an anaerobic environment.

And so you can look at all of these three, and there's going to be different things that you need

to do to to maintain them. So one might not be, one might be more labor intensive in one aspect,

maybe it's more labor intensive frequently, or you can look at these different ones and get

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