Packed with research, expert testimonies, and a healthy dose of humour, 'Compost City' gives us essential strategies on composting in small, shared, diversely crowded spaces.

Provides advice on organic-gardening techniques that make use of homemade compost, and explains how to locate, build, and stock a compost bin.

"Through lyrical text filled with concrete processes and facts, readers will build and tend to a compost bin. From creation of the "compost cake" to using the compost, budding composters will discover what it takes to have a successful bin-and the benefits a bin can have to the environment. Master composter, Melody Sumaoang Plan, shows readers the physical, biological, and chemical processes involved and rich illustrations take them deep inside the...

Simple words and cut paper illustrations follow an apple as it falls from a tree, becomes part of a school girl's lunch, and is buried through the changing seasons until it sprouts anew.

Amir and Sidra pick and peel apples for a pie, and all the food scraps go to the compost bin.