Sarah Peller

I'm not sure how to reply to individual posts here, so I'll try to reply to all of them...

My pile isn't that tall yet. About 3 feet. It keeps sinking down.

I haven't seen it yet be this cold over the winter. Our winters are very mild here, so it seems the pile could still keep cooking. One thing that is worrying me is that critters are now digging into the pile because it's not hot anymore.

I really like that idea of (if I can't get it up to temp), to let it sit for 2 years and turn/mix after 1 year. That's a really good option!

I don't know what happened, but suddenly our humanure pile is cold. It was fine for about a year and a half and then stopped cooking. I tried adding horse manure to the deposits for a while, thinking maybe that we had too much carbon, but it didn't seem to help. Now, I've tried to cover it. Maybe it's too wet? I live in the PNW. It's not super cold outside, but quite rainy. Wondering if anyone has experience with bringing your pile back to temp? I know that I can't turn it like a normal compost pile, but hoping I can do something to fix it!! Thanks for your help