Thank you! Ya, I have tried composting before and just don't like it. I do make cold compost though - takes the material about a year of sitting around to turn into compost but you never need to turn it. Basically the lazy man's composting! ;)

Hmm... I have seen a few permaculture people do that to various degrees. Let me see if I can find some of the videos...

I think Geoff Lawton shows this in his tour video of Zaytuna Farms:

There is also this one:

I'm sure there are some others but those 2 videos keep coming to mind...