Compost and collected
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008The no-sweat way to turn kitchen waste into black gold
My friend Bill is a composter extraordinaire. He has no less than four steaming heaps of decomposing kitchen scraps working at any given time, generating enough fertile output to produce a cornucopia of vegetables throughout the growing season.
Me, I’d always been totally intimidated by the thought of overseeing something that had to “cook.” I mean, Bill’s a chemist: He understands the complex alchemy for building a pile of waste that can heat itself up to 140 degrees or more. (more…)







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