City Girl and Her Nature Adventures!

Okay it has only been a couple of weeks since I started this compost adventure. Boy, it’s going to take some getting used to. First you have to have a small container next to your sink to collect your recycling materials. They have all of these cute mini canisters and decorative jars you can use to disguise the recycled material. It’s a good idea to have one; at first I thought I would just place it on a plate and then take it out to the compost bin. But it was nasty, I did not like looking at egg shells, coffee grounds, tea bags and what ever else I thought was going to be great for the science project in the back yard. So get a container and make it cute, because what’s in it is not.

The next thing I noticed was we wasted a lot of food, especially food that is good for the compost like spinach, carrots, bell peppers, grapes and sprouts. It’s funny I recall requests for these items and promises I will eat them in my lunch next week but here they are stinking up the fridge. However, I don’t see any pudding packs, go-gurt’s, cinnamon rolls or beer left :O)

So, as you can see I have lots of stuff to go into the compost and I’ll drop that stuff in, then give it a turn and put the lid back on to wait another day. Hopefully as the weeks go by I’ll become more conscious of the items we are discarding.