Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Composting

In Bentonville, Allied Waste is charged with picking up the trash and recyclables (the list is short of what they take; more on that in another post). There is no green bin for yard and food waste here. Since I haven't spoken to any of our neighbors about this yet, I'm not sure what people around here do with their food waste. I have noticed that when some people cut their lawns, they allow the clippings to be distributed back into the lawn, a lot of which gets blown into the street.

Since we knew there would be no local pick up of our compost items, we purchased a home compost maker from NatureMill online (http://www.naturemill.com). It takes most of our food waste and turns it into rich soil within a few weeks.

3 comments:

  1. cool composting tool.
    -Matthew from WSH

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  2. ginny pendleton hsiehAugust 29, 2009 at 8:24 PM

    tres cool! i am going to introduce to my familia!
    thanks! also so glad you found the annie's organic chedder bunnies!
    ginny from pb

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  3. Awesome! I can't wait to hear about how it works out for you. You should check out the book, "The Urban Homestead"

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