Kitchen Compost

Kitchen Compost

Kitchen compost is a way of using up your food scraps to make great quality soil for your garden. Composting is recycling at its best, and I believe any gardener who wants to have great flowers and other plants and at the same time... [more]

Kitchen compost is a way of using up your food scraps to make great quality soil for your garden. Composting is recycling at its best, and I believe any gardener who wants to have great flowers and other plants and at the same time benefit the planet should be an enthusiastic maker and user of compost.

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T he Quebec government says it wants to ban "green" and recyclable waste from landfills within a decade, starting with paper and cardboard with the aim of lowering average household waste from 810 to 700 kilograms per year. It announced Monday that it will be earmarking $650 million over the next ten years for projects, including new recycling sites. That’s good news in the main, altough as always the devil will be in the details. If we’re talking mostly about things like garden waste and grass clippings, there should be few problems. But when it comes to kitchen scraps, I can see major difficulties. ... Read Full Story
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International Composting Awareness Week (Sunday 3rd to Saturday 9th May 2009) is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products. Approximately 60% of the rubbish Australians put in the everyday mixed-waste ‘garbage bin’ could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch or could be returned to agricultural land to improve soil quality. Alarmingly, such a huge amount of organically-active material buried ‘anaerobically’ (without air) in landfill causes over 3% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions annually by producing methane : a ... Read Full Story
Written by StuartinFiji on
International Composting Awareness Week (Sunday 3rd to Saturday 9th May 2009) is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products. Approximately 60% of the rubbish Australians put in the everyday mixed-waste ‘garbage bin’ could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch or could be returned to agricultural land to improve soil quality. Alarmingly, such a huge amount of organically-active material buried ‘anaerobically’ (without air) in landfill causes over 3% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions annually by producing methane : a ... Read Full Story
Written by theminimalist on
You may have heard that composting is a good thing because food waste that rots in our landfills and creates methane gas that adds to the greenhouse effect, but that’s a lot to take in even for a minimalist. I mean, I’m not a scientist. But, here are some other reasons why I started composting my food waste. First of all, I cook a fair amount so I create a lot of vegetable scraps. What do I do with them? I can either put them into my garbage disposal and risk clogging it up, (what a pain!), or I can throw them into my ... Read Full Story
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The great thing about tea is it tastes great, is great for your health and it’s budget friendly. Every so often I get a little bored with my tea prep and willingly look for ways to complicate things. When I received a humongous gift certificate a few years ago I drove myself crazy deciding what to get. Finally I chose and made one of those buys that basically makes no sense and you never really understand why you actually did. I had to buy something - I didn’t want to be one of those people that doesn’t use their gift cert, so I chose ... Read Full Story
If you're a gardener who's tired of battling winter weather to get out to your compost bin then you should consider getting a kitchen compost crock. Find out how these indoor compost bins can help you make compost all year long.Contributor: Anthony TrippPublished: Oct 19, 2009  
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Red wigglers from P.J. Dunn Working Red Worms in Galt. You want great garden soil? Add a couple handfuls of these squirmers to your kitchen compost.I killed Elmo and Slimey first, then the Wiggles. Before you dial 9-1-1, I did not bump off the Australian kiddie-pop band – or the Muppets. I did, however, knock off a slew of worms. I think that makes me a vermicidal maniac. This all started when I agreed to try my hand at...  
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Okay…so I was kind of joking about doing a regular weekly gardening column, but having spent rather longer weeding and feeding this week than I intended to, I need to get something written for Sciencebase today that wouldn’t be too demanding. So here’s a quick guide to composting your kitchen and garden waste. These are the [...]Organic Compost Chemistry is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog  
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Modesto is selling its Mo-gro Pro and Mo-gro Magic compost in 1.5 cubic foot bags for $3 each, plus tax. They're available at the Senior Citizens Center, 211 Bodem St., from 8:30 a.m. to noon weekdays from Oct. 26 to Nov. 30. The compost is a byproduct of the city's green waste program. Residents are encouraged to put their yard waste, kitchen scraps and paper products in green waste bins, which are collected to make the compost at Modesto's...  
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I got the plans on line after doing a “google” search for compost bins. I made this in 2007 and was my first project – a rather simple one at that. But two years later… it’s still standing! The idea is that you put fresh items in the first bin and let it sit for 6 weeks or more as you add to it. We use all kitchen scraps except meat products, yard clippings, paper from the shredder, and of course saw dust. After 6 weeks or so (more in...  
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by Benedict Perez Compost is consisting of waste materials like dried leaves, kitchen food scraps, vegetable and fruit scraps, dead flowers, and other perishable and decaying items. These materials are then used as part of the decomposition process. The process is done by mixing them and keeping them damp by adding water, soil, and the combination of these waste materials. The whole pile is then turning about every other week and in two...  
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Bury your problem of where to throw the perishable waste materials by composting. Compost is consisting of waste materials like dried leaves, kitchen food scraps, vegetable and fruit scraps, dead flowers, and other perishable and decaying items. These materials are then used as part of the decomposition process. The process is done by mixing them and keeping them damp by adding water, soil, and the combination of these waste materials. The...  
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