Showing posts with label composting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composting. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Composting Update

As a follow-up to Tuesday’s composting entry, I found a neat post on Small Space Living about an indoor composter. I followed the link over the web site for Nature’s Mill: I am very tempted to save my pennies and buy one of these!

The web site includes a video showing the composter in action and explains how it works. It’s designed to live in a kitchen and does the composting right there.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Carbon Fast for Lent: Composting, Anyone?

The Third Tuesday in Lent
“Compost. Put the nutrients from food waste back into the soil — not into a methane emitting landfill.”

Have I mentioned we’ve had 90 inches of snow this season? I’m not sure what composters do in winter. As a longtime apartment dweller I haven’t really given much thought to composting at all. But there’s a community garden nearby: my goal with the spring thaw is to check out if they have a compost heap (if that’s the right word) and if they allow neighbors to use it.

Today’s miztvah: What odd and unexpedted action could you take to reduce your carbon footprint?