I bought this compost bin at the Gardener's Supply (www.gardeners.com) several years ago. It's now under my deck, just outside the kitchen so it is handy for dumping vegetable and fruit scraps, coffee grounds, but also grass clippings and leaves. It's now a trendy kind of "green" thing to compost, but I learned this practice from my mother who had a compost pile fifty years ago. There really is nothing all that new about it. There is something infinitely satisfying about dropping garbage into a container and within months emptying out a load of rich, soil enhancing mulch. It's so easy. I've been told that compost decomposition is jump started by the addition of beer to heat it up. Mike does not approve of this--certainly not with his expensive micro-brewery favorites. I have, on occasion, bought a quart bottle of cheap beer to pour over the mix, but I think a squirt from the hose works just as well. I don't even turn it that often, but look at the stuff I get out.
It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
I agree that there is something satisying about compost. I don't understand it, but we've been composting about a year and a half and we are so amazed by the process. We love our dirt!
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