composting in a pile of stumps?

I'm looking for experienced opinions.
I have a pile of stumps on the edge of the woods, about 300' from the house.  They've been there for a few years now.  I'm wondering if I can start throwing our kitchen scraps (no meat/dairy) out there to bury it, hugel-style and get the whole thing to decompose a lot faster, rather than hosting snakes and other critters.  I've read about hugel mounds, but haven't actually built one.  I don't think I can move the wood - it's too big and tangled up.

We do have black bears and other wildlife in the area, so that's also on my radar, don't want to tempt them close to the house...

I would suggest that making a hugelkulture bed will help decompose those stumps faster than just making a compost pile out of it.

Throw those kitchen scraps into that too.

Then use the hugelkulture bed for growing some things that are yummy to eat. Or wildflowers.

Just my thoughts so I am looking forward to what others suggest.

Depending on the wood species and how old the stumps are you might want to consider utilizing fungus to help speed up the decomposition.

I've drilled and plugged oysters in a number of stumps and it helped turn it into crumbly punky goodness after a while. I tend to use oyster species as they work on a lot of different hardwoods.

You don't have to move the stumps to hugel them. Start throwing your kitchen scraps and anything else organic or dirt on it. That's basically what a hugelculture mound is. They were copied off how a fallen tree in nature accumulates stuff and breaks down and is very fertile.

You might throw stuff for a bit, then plant squash on it, and keep throwing stuff, and get a crop off it. Squash will happily grow in kitchen scraps and weird wood.

It absolutely does not need to be a formal "hugelculture" to perform right. Start giving it those scraps!!

:D

Not sure what species the wood is - definitely hardwood.  Nearby trees are hickory, oak and poplar.  It's definitely old, and in a shady spot.