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Homemade compost is the cheapest, best soil amendment around, eliminating the need for chemical or other commercial fertilizers while reducing waste.
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Each shovelful of soil holds more living things than all the human beings ever born.
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Can yesterday's table scraps become your next meal?
The Bite
Get a head start on next season’s garden bounty by converting your kitchen waste to nature’s fertilizer.The Benefits
- The average household produces more than 200 lbs of kitchen waste every year. Keep biodegradable materials out of your trash and garbage disposal, and give local landfills and water treatment plants a break.
- Compost recycles nutrients and organic matter, providing food for plants and the microorganisms that keep soil healthy. It also improves the water-retaining capacity of soil, so you can water less often.
- Most of what passes through your kitchen is compostable, including: vegetable scraps, fruit peelings, bread and cereals, grains and pasta, coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, and even crushed eggshells. (Leave out animal-based and oily foods, which can cause odors and attract pests).
Personally Speaking
Jen’s been making compost in her kitchen for a while now, and expects to have the healthiest soil in town. Once the ground thaws, that is.Wanna Try?
- Clean Air Gardening’s Indoor Kitchen Composter - Make finished compost directly in the pail using an anaerobic fermentation process. A built-in spigot releases moisture, eliminating odors ($70).
- Gardener’s Supply Company Worm Bin Factory – Bin and the red wiggler worms can handle a pound of kitchen scraps each week ($105, plus $35.95 for worms).
- Envirocycle Composter – Outdoor composting from Planet Natural lets you compost and tumble all kitchen and garden scraps ($163).
- Eco-Products’ MaxAir Kitchen Composter – Collect kitchen scraps in this odor-free container under the sink. When it’s full, take out the biodegradable bag and toss the whole thing in your outdoor compost bin ($15).
- Compost Guide – Everything you wanted to know about composting.
Feb 02,2006
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"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit." - Guy Debord
So funny, and I am sure true -- I remember apartment hunting in NYC and was floored and saddened that disposals weren't allowed. Now it makes sense since I am thinking more about it... the food that you put down the disposal doesn't go straight to feed the fishies in the sea! Au contraire - it puts a burden on sewage-treatment plant (or your septic system). This not only increases the load on our already overburdened sewage-treatment facilities, but also creates the need to use water to flush Aunt Edna's awfully inedible dinner down the drain (instead of strategically hiding it under that say recycled paper used napkin).
WhoWodaThunk?
Off to play with my super sexy NatureMill composter... Jen
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