When building your compost pile, think ‘green’ and ‘brown’ materials

Green materials are wet and high in nitrogen e.g. coffee grounds, cover crops, eggshells, fruit wastes, grains, grass clippings, hair, leaves, manure, seaweed, vegetable scraps and weeds. Brown include corncobs, cornstalks, hay, nutshells, paper, pine needles, sawdust, straw, vegetable stalks and seeds.