My personal feeling is that composting has been made to sound way more complicated that it needs to be! If you live in a very tight, city environment, then I understand using enclosed bins, etc. (and more's the pity to you), but if you have any amount of room I would say just make a couple of heaps (and if necessary, use a "privacy screen" of some type around them). We catch the grass clippings with our lawnmower and mostly use them as mulch on the garden (which then turns into compost), and when the grass in the garden gets too deep we add it to the "new" compost pile, along with all the veg scraps that we accumulate from harvesting the garden. The "old" compost pile, from last year, is used for planting and side-dressing over the course of the gardening year. One thing that I have found to really help - despite my initial skepticism - is "compst starter." I'm sure there are many different types, but I bought a bag from "Gardens Alive" a couple of years ago and toss in a cupful or so every so often, and then 3 or 4 times over the course of summer sort of turn the pile over. Shade is also a good thing, so your compost pile retains some moisture. Lacking the space for a compost pile, you can always just dig the scraps and stuff into your garden wherever space allows -- it WILL rot down over time. (just don't make the mistake that my ex and I did years ago and decide to use "fish guts" to fertilize the corn "like the Indians did"... skunks really like fish guts and in the process also dig up the plants,
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Happy gardening -- just don't overthink it!
