Only my husband and I would be crazy enough, in the dead of winter, to start composting (yes, this post is maybe two months late). It came about a bit half-hazard (obviously), our yard has four massive trees, which in turn generate massive amounts of leaves that we bag up and send to the landfill. We decided to keep some of the leaves, mulch them, and leave them in a pile. Said pile hung out for a while until we read up a bit on composting. Realized we needed to add those kitchen scraps to get the whole process going, my husband took one of my jamming pots that was gathering dust and boom, created a countertop composter (side note: we are not experiencing a lot of smell by not having a fancy, aerated composter. Maybe it would breakdown more with more aeration, but so far, the cheap solution is working for us.). So then we started dumping kitchen scraps outside and burying them in the middle of the random leaf/grass clippings pile. Then I had a moment of pan...