I feel so proud of my compost and its bins (recycled from storage bins we had). I get to save most of our food scraps & all of our yard waste from landfills & help the enviroment just a little more.
Urban composting is getting more popular in NYC than years ago. NYC offers a course on how to compost (http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/compost/composting_nyc.shtml) or you can read a book like I did called Let it Rot (http://www.amazon.com/Let-Rot-Gardeners-Composting-Down-To-Earth/dp/1580170234). It's a pretty awesome book and I have been composting ever since.
I would have never imagine how much food scraps a family of 4 can collect. But we fill within a year 6 full bins 2 to 3 times during the whole composting process. That's a total of 18 bins a year. And that's that I don't make everyone bring their composting items from work too. But 1 step at a time will we achieve this. Even family members who come to visit know that they must compost all of our food scraps in our home.
Why compost?
· Its a way to build fertile soil to grow healthy and productive plants.
· It will improve the appearance and even the nutritional value of your garden.
· Adding things like fall leaves, grass clippings & kitchen scraps increases the soil's organic matter.
· Functions as a mulch.
· You're decreasing the amount of trash going to landfills.
· Composting reduces pollution. Believe it or not compost avoids the production of methane and leachate in landfills.
· Composting reduces the need of water (because can be used as a mulch), fertilizers (because it adds nutrients back into the soil & plants), and pesticides (because it helps maintain bad bugs away).
· It has been shown that composting can even prevent erosion.
The next blog we will get into on how to start your compost bins now so when next season comes around you have a good amount of organic matter for your heat loving veggies.
Happy Gardening!!!!
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