Rutgers 1 Municipal compost varies widely. Compost from your town is probably great stuff. I get a lot of my compost free, from our city compost dump. It is mostly unfinished leaf mold. I have used it directly on my back yard, but prefer to finish it in my compost bin. Go have a look at your towns black gold. Take some home and try it. Some concerns might be: unknown pesticide residue, not finished enough. I have a gold mine of free compost, browns, greens, nearly finished, and finished humus if one digs deep enough. This morning, I opened my bin, pulled a bunch out, turned it a little, watered it and replaced what I took out with new stuff from our city piles. Look at that barrel of fresh green grass, buckets of leaf mold. Mmmmm mmmmm good. And of course, it was free.
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Thanks for the response.

I do some small worm composting with my class (I am an elementary school teacher), but would like to create a larger bin on my property. Do you know of a good online resource for creating and maintaining one?

Also, can you post a photo of your lawn? I would love to see how the organic program is working on it. Are you 100% organic, or a mix?

http://compost.css.cornell.edu/schools.html

"For more information, see our online book 'Composting in the Classroom' or view the video 'It's Gotten Rotten'".

Terran

Here is a link that might be useful: Composting in Schools

There are a lot of resources online about Vermicomposting, but what I have seen is large scale vermicomposting requires much more space than "conventional" composting because the vermicomposting bins need to be shallower while a 4 x 4 x 4 compost pile will produce 1 ton of compost, or just over 1 cubic yard, as fast as you want to work it, even every 14 days if you are that active. To get the same return from the worms would require much more space.
If you need compost now and your town has a facility that recyles the vegetative waste from the residence it would be a real valuable source of compost for you and I would use it.