Learning to compost

I have been thinking about starting a blog on my adventure into growing foods and raising chickens on our property. I want my granddaughter to know that she can do anything she puts her mind to and to know where her food comes from. I've always lived by the thought that when we take from the land we should also return to the land. The land provides for us and we should give back. So I am learning to compost to provide the best nutrients in the soil for our garden. Every time you plant it strips nutrients from the soil and needs to be replaced. I found that it also helps to provide some tasty snack for our chickens in form of Black Soldier Fly Larva. My granddaughter and I would pick the larva out of the cans we compost in and hand feed them to our chickens. Scraps from our garden, lawn clippings, chicken manure and paper products would all go in our compost can. This would attract the black soldier flies and they would lay their larva, which in turn would be a extra food source for our chickens. The larva would help break down the compost and then we would add the compost to our garden for the next planting. There are many things that can be composted. Here is a list of items I compost. Newspaper, Non-glossy junk mail, cardboard boxes(torn up), straw, leaves, small branches and twigs, pine cones, napkins, toilet paper rolls, pine straw, coffee filters,egg cartons(pressed paper kind), saw dust, brown paper grocery bags, bedding from chickens, chicken manure, fruit and veggies scrapes,coffee grounds, tea leaves/bags, weeds that haven't gone to seeds, grass clippings, deadhead flowers, dead plants, stale bread, old packages of herbs and spices, egg shells.