Monday, May 6, 2013

A Shocking Realization From Composting



The other night I was carrying our food scraps to the compost bin (we use an all seasons bokashi composter and we keep it in the basement). The compost was from one meal and one dessert. And this is what it looked like:



That seems shocking but it was a meal that lasted several days and the dessert (a cantaloupe) also lasted a few days. My first thought was look at all of this waste, and if it was going in the trash it would be waste. But it wasn’t going in the trash. It was going to be turned into soil and then we would be growing new vegetables in it to eat. There was nothing going to waste here. It was a strange revelation.

Has anyone every had similar shocks?

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