I live on a couple of acres and there is no trash collection. We have to take all our trash into town. I started composting a year or so ago. Not little barrel

I live on a couple of acres and there is no trash collection. We have to take all our trash into town. I started composting a year or so ago. Not little barrels or bins or anything like that. I wanted to the compost to get hot and be able to really bury green kitchen wastes so animals didn't pull it out. So every few months I have been buying a large (500-600 pound) bale of ruined moldy hay ($10 at a hay yard near here). I cut the strings and fluff the hay up with a pitchfork. Then I add a quart or so of fertilizer and wet it. Then I pile it into a cone and wet it again. The cones are about 5 feet tall initially with maybe a 5-6 foot diameter base. I keep my eyes open for any additional organic matter I can add. All the weeds, leaves, grass clippings... I even added some tall weeds I cut from the roadside this summer. We bury anything compostable in the pile. All vegetable scraps, paper plates, paper towels, cardboard egg cartons, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, I even put in a couple of big (non-shiny) cardboard boxes that were completely consumed. About twice a month I turn the pile over. As the pile starts breaking down and shrinking to the point it doesn't really heat up anymore I start another one. At the end I have a tiny little pile of compost maybe 2.5 feet cubed. It's amazing how much all that stuff breaks down. It's a lot of work but the compost is really great for the lawn and gardens. I couldn't buy something of similar quality. I estimate it's cut our trash by about 1/3 and importantly it also keeps most organic matter out of the trash which makes it less stinky (we don't eat much meat and the dogs help with the scraps from the little we do). Composting is a lot of fun. It's like farming microbes.