Composting!

This winter I have been researching, reading, and thinking composting! Within my own personal kitchen, I have begun composting those veggie scraps, leftover food, paper, and all other compostable material. As I do so, I have been counting up the amount of garbage we generate as an American society. Argh! Sometimes it takes action to realize the extent of our misuse of the resources given us by our Creator.

While more could be said about our rapid way of :”throwing things away” (because honestly where is “away”?), I want to talk about vermicomposting! I have an adorable 4 year old friend who, when I visit during the summer, asks me to dig for baby worms with her. “Well, of course little one I will dig for baby worms with you!” Little did I know that several months later, I would invite hundreds of worms (housed, of course) into my own kitchen to eat up the vegetable and paper scraps from my larder.

Yep, that’s right. I have worms in my kitchen! My 4 year old friend will be thrilled when I show her.

But its not just a random pile of worms running rampant through the kitchen. They have a special home complete with a lid. Their job is to eat the scraps and then their own waste will become the compost which I will use to vitalize the dirt I grow the vegetables in.

Its a circle of life.

The veggie scraps feed the worms whose waste feeds the dirt in which grows more veggies for us to eat and generate more scraps. And that my friends is the beginning of a beautiful symbiotic relationship of farm life!