Permies Poll: How do you compost?

I have about 1-acre that I actively plant, water, and manage.

I have a small woodchipper, and an electric lawnmower. I chip lots of branches and small trees from the 5-acres of forest, and I mow the grass on my septic field.

I combine woodchips and grass clippings in 2x 50-gallon plastic trash barrels for my compost. The barrels have 1in holes in the walls, and I put a 4in drain pipe with additional holes into the center. This is a mini-Johnson-Su reactor.

I also add-in coffee grounds from my local coffee shop, and yard cuttings, and kitchen waste.

I don't have a microscope myself, but a few years ago my town hosted a Permaculture jamboree where a microscope (& experts) were in attendance. They *loved* my compost.

I hot compst, then allow plenty of time for the pile to sit cool and properly mature.

I dont understand trench composting, well I understand the process of it but seen a few articles of people that say they have given up the effort of turning and maintaining a compost heap, now they use the easy method of burying veg scraps in place/under crops or mear veg beds.

Surely the effort of saving up enough veg scraps and digging one of many trenches, which would have to be deep enough not to attract rats or other wildlife that would dig them up again would be more effort than a compost heap, especially if a simple cold method was used.

The person writing this article was selling a veg garden design package also, so seems like they are promising, time and effort saved for more benefit.