Your Trash is the Earths Treasure

Don't you dare throw out those coffee grounds!

Did you know that most of the food you are throwing in your trash is entering landfills where it contributes to carbon gas emissions?

In a time not so long ago, people saved their food scraps and put them back into the earth where they could properly decompose and return nutrients to the soil.  Composting has become somewhat of a lost art.  My heart breaks when I see food thrown into the plastic lined trash, never to lend itself to the making of that beautiful dark soil which allows for crop abundance.

The Good News...

You can compost!  Simply find a place in your local area that does composting, may it be a neighbor or a community garden, and start saving your scraps.  I like to use an old butter bowl to keep mine in, and I simply save everything that is allowed (pretty much all organic substances besides meat or bones, but here is a good list to look at if you are unsure)  I take the compost to our community garden once a week.

Here is what the Sierra Club has to say about composting.

Now Do it!