One of the great difficulties of making compost is getting hold of some sort of animal manure. You might think that this is almost impossible to do if you do not live near a farm, but that is not so.
I live in Oxford UK and my method of collecting compost is to go where animals are and collect it off the fields. Of course, you cannot go onto private land and do this; I go onto common ground and collect horse manure.
There are laws about this in the UK and they might well be where you are.
The law states that you may pick up animal manure provide the manure is cold and not affixed to the earth!
In other words: if it is fresh, it belongs to the owner of the beast and if it is attached to the ground, it belongs to the ground.
In realty, this means in the winter you have about two weeks before it becomes part of the ground and in the summer about four days.
I do find, in life that if you want something you will find a way through.
Go out and about; look for manure; talk manure/horses and you will be surprised at what you will find.
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