A great friend of mine, Sheila inspired me to get involved with an idea to start a regional composting program! Tonight I did a search about ideas of what is currently done regionally about composting, here are some links I found to begin with:
Go natural garden parties
Community Composting Program in Victoria
Biodegradeable Compostable Bags!
Go Natural Booklet
Compost Using Office Shreddings
Black Gold
http://www.composting101.com/
I really like the Go natural booklet, it has a wide variety of information about local issues and change that can be made!! There are plans to build your own composting system, I hope this isn't too intimidating. A compost bin can be really simple. Here are some books & products about composting that are great!
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Cool! I wish there was someone composting where I live too. I know it sounds strange but I find soil to be really interesting. I watched a documentry a few years ago in school and the one thing I remember that amazed me was that there can be up to 10,000 species of bacteria in just a teaspoon of soil! Isn't that crazy?
Most people think soil is just dirt, but it is a living jungle!
I have set out a blue garbage can in my front yard for compost from friends that want somewhere to drop it off! I will even supply compostable bags to make it easier for people!
I'm also going to start taking the shredding home from work for my compost. I wish I could get lots of newspaper (black & white pages), it makes great mulch.
Composting is amazing. Last weekend I weeded half of my garden, and left the weeds in the paths of my garden. I went out there today, and it was reduced down to nothing! Just looked like a few scraps of dead grass and weeds. It is basically what they call sheet composting.
Tomorrow I hope to get some energy in this heat, to get more bark mulch from up the hill. My raspberries & currants love the mulch. I also need to cover the weeds at the back of the garden along the fence. I want to get that part of the garden ready for next year, for a strawberry patch! The more compost and mulch materials I can get the better!
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