msterspy wrote in
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I live in the Boston area and I have about 5 oak trees and two pines.
I get a lot of leaves and I recently contracted a guy to move all of
the leaves to the rear corner of the yard. $300 for probably 1/2 day
work. Everything is expensive in the Boston area. Anyway, it would be
very costly to have the leaves carted off to the dump. The yard slopes
away form the house and it would be cost a lot more to remove the
pile.
I would like to add something like lime to speed up the decompostion.
Is this a good plan? Is there any other beter way to speed up the
proceess. There will be a huge pile of leaves and it builds up every
year.

Here's how you get rid of the leaves for under $10: Whip out your favorite
word processor / sign making software, make a sign "free composted manure,
e-mail for details". Casually head up (down?) to Harvard University and
post up the signs, probably around coffee shops is better. You will also
want to have a real bag of manure to give away so you can pass any sham
ethics inquiry into your little bait and switch. (Do not bring the manure
into the coffee shop). Then wait for some poor academics like this guy to
take your bait:

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw050424.html
"... And a week after that, in Rockport, Mass., a chaired professor of
economics at Harvard, Martin Weitzman, was charged with larceny after a
farmer said Weitzman has long been trespassing and hauling away manure for
his own nearby farm, thus denying the farmer his market price of $35 per
truckload. [New York Post, 4-6-05] [Boston Herald, 4-6-05]"