We put our household garbage and garden trimmings (except tomato, asparagus, and pepper plants - - which are burned for sanitary reasons), in a circle of fencewire out in the garden. It's often called the
compost staging area, as in autumn I'll add it to whatever compost pile I build. This year, mebbe account all the rain, 'though the pile continued to shrink at the usual rate, it had a very unpleasant odor... Lucky for me, a close neighbor had cleaned his goat stalls, and there was some very dry goat poop and straw available. I used 3 tractor bucket loads, re-piled the stinky, wet stuff with the dry. Just 4 days later, heat! I've turned it once, mebbe turn again and add a bit of water tomorrow too. It's heating nicely...
I once read that the 2 major ways compost piles go wrong is a bum C:N and wrong moisture... Makes sense to me. This one, golly, took right off. Gotta get lucky sometime, right? With the heat and humidity here in the Midwest right now, it wasn't much fun to feel the extra from the pile while turning it! Ha! In winter, that heat is a blessing, not so now...

Best, TM