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The Good and Great of Kitchen Compost

By Jason Cote

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Published: 19Mar2012
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Every day; every minute; every hour; every second, we throw an astounding amount of trash away. A lot of the garbage is recyclable and could be transformed into new products and potential. A great example of this: food scraps that are being thrown away as you read. Organic byproducts from our meals are the raw material for a highly effective garden fertilizer. This fertilizer is a way to feed the soil, plants, and necessary bio-organisms that help our food become more nutritious; a win-win situation for us and the environment.

The Kinds of Compost

No matter what composting goal you have, there is a style that you will find interesting and will work for your needs. If you are classically minded, you may like the traditional style of compost. You can achieve this by having a compost pile in the yard and turn it for exercise or you can look into a tumbling composter—a nifty system that involves a simple spin to aerate the compost. If you want real simple, bokashi composting is your answer. With a bokashi bin there is no separating or aerating. Pop in your scraps and let the anaerobic fermentation process quickly breakdown your scraps into garden gold. Beyond these choices, there are worms to put to work in red worm composting. You supply the scraps and the worms do the work and give you some worm castings that your garden will love. Choices? You got serious kitchen composting choices.

The Basics

Making composting a normal part of your everyday routine can be easy when condensed down to simple steps:

First, you need something in the kitchen to act as a temporary storage bin, this can be a kitchen compost pail (either a homemade one or one you purchased) or if you have a bokashi bin in your kitchen, you can plop your scraps right in. Be sure to separate your heavy proteins like meat and dairy from your regular composter.

Secondly, when your pail is full, you have to transfer it to your home composter. This all depends on what style of composting you decided upon. It may be using red worms, a tumbling outside composter, or a compost pile near your garden.

Thirdly, depending on your system, you will have to turn the compost to aerate it. Air is the fuel for the scraps to heat up and fuel the decomposition process. Keep turning until compost is finished. The finishing time varies and depends on what style composting you are using. Read more about the composting process to learn about speeding up the process with all systems by helping with the compost conditions like ratio of carbon to nitrogen and keeping compost from getting too wet or too dry.

The wonder of compost is that you can reduce personal waste and get something that has value (if you don't believe me check out fertilizer prices at the hardware store). Dig into composting and start saving the earth by not tossing your garbage.

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