One Earth

Yes, it's true. We only have one planet in this solar system that's fit for life. And if you can't recycle damnit you need to leave!
Go screw up some other planet. I hear Venus has lots of real estate going cheap.

I have become more conscious about garbage and recycling in the past few months. Really since the compost heap thing. I can't believe the amount of trash I have since I started using it. I put out my trash can( I only have one) once a month. Honest.
So in the compost heap it's food items, like tea leaves, eggshells, veggie peelings like from carrots and eggplants, apple cores, and moldy bread. Also there's dead plants from the garden, grass clippings, mulch from last year, leaves, a few rocks and some twigs. You can compost anything but meat and bones(animals like that.) Although the birds liked the old rolls.
I recycle my cans and bottles, although I cut back on my soda consumption and am buying local soda. Polar Ginger Ale, yum. http://www.polarbev.com/And I recycle most of my paper/mail. It's amazing how these little things cut back on what you toss.
It's really just a slight variation in your routines and you are creating soil, reducing energy consumption, and supporting local business.
Try it. Eat local and compost.
It does wonders for your (planet's) health.

Saving the Earth

Or at least my little corner of it. Cause you gotta start somewhere.
Gardening has moved from a hobby to an obsession. I went overboard on the seeds too, but that's another post.
In order to help save the world I got a compost bin. Free from the city! Well, considering the taxes I pay, probably not, but they didn't ask me for any more money. Which is something.

N.B. I found out my property taxes are almost a higher percentage point than other larger and more wealthy cities in the same county. Amazing what the internet teaches us...Sigh.


I got interested in composting after reading The Four Season Harvest. Good all around gardening book. These people live in Maine and grow fresh veggies all year round! IN MAINE! Well, maybe grow isn't quite the right word, but they have fresh vegetables in December and January. So I thought why not me?

So after lusting after my neighbor's compost heap for a week, I got my own.

I started filling it that same day! Grass, leaves, twigs, eggshells, tea grounds, and I don't know what else.

So with time, patience and lots of grass, tea and eggs I will have a homemade soil supplement. Thanks to recycling and Mother Nature.

It's very cool. It's amazing what can be composted. Plant leaves, coffee grounds, grass clippings, dead squirrels,(haven't seen one yet) fruit cores, peanut shells, seaweed, even little rocks and shells.

And best of all it's pretty much free.